The True Knight

Stephen Hawes

c.1475 to c.1523

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But for a truth, or for the common's sake.
Justice to keep mixt with mercy among:
He ought himself for to make sure and strong,
For knighthood is not in the feats of warre,
And no quarrell a knight ought to take
As for to fight in quarrel right or wrong,
But in a cause which truth can not defarre:

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