Knight of their highest ranks (Knight/Dame Commander and Knight/Dame Grand Cross), comes together with an honorific knighthood, making them a cross between orders of chivalry and orders of merit. By contrast, membership of other British Orders of Merit, such as the Distinguished Service Order, the Order of Merit and the Order of the Companions of Honour does not confer a knighthood. The second is being granted honorific knighthood by the British sovereign without membership of an order, the recipient being called Knight Bachelor. In the British honours system the knightly style of "Sir" is accompanied by the given name, and optionally
A Woman Is a Weathercock at the White-friars, By the Children of her Majesty's Revels". The printed edition included a commendatory verse by the dramatist George Chapman, headed "To his Loved son, Nat. Field, and his Weather-cocke Woman". Field had performed in many of Chapman's plays including "Bussy D'Ambois", "All Fools", "The Gentleman Usher", "May Day", "Monsieur D'Olive", "Sir Giles Goosecap", "The Widow's Tears" and "Eastward Ho!" The printed quarto begins with an address by Field "To any Woman that hath beene no Weathercocke" in which he says that any woman who has been "constant" will see "what amendes I have made to her and