text:  What!--Shall he who has "full often time the bord begun "-- "Aboven alle natiouns in Pruce;" who has "reysed in Lettowe and in Ruce " has been-- "In Gernade at the siege Of Algesir and ridden in Belmarie;" who was-- "At Leyes and at Satalie When they were wonne; and in the Grete See At many a noble armee;"-- he who has been at-- "Mortal battailes fiftene And foughten for our faith at Tramisene In listes thries and ay slain his fo"-- shall he upon the qualm of a queasy criticism not be allowed to transfer something of the "Chevalrie Truth and honor fredom and courtesie " which "from the time that he first began to riden out " he has loved--across a gap of a few hundred leagues and years? To what end else it may be asked has he approved himself "full worthy in his lordes werre " and "ridden thereto no man ferre "-- "As well in Christendom as in Hethenesse And ever honor'd for his worthinesse?" Why the Knight would have been no knight at all if he had been Richard Bentley or John Milton and not as there is every reason to hope he was _le noble et vaillant Chivaler_ MATHEU DE GOURNEY whose marble tells us that he had fought at Benamaryn and Algezire and been at abundance of battles and sieges named and unnamed in Christendom and Heathenesse--"_en les quex il gaigna noblement graunt los et honour_"--and who "died in 1406 at the age of 96