JlS hints an chivalry* -^^g* 28, 



HINTS RELATING TO CHIVALRY. 



For the Bee. 



Vhe education of a knight. 



Continued from p. 292. 



1 HE young men followed the armies in time of 

 war J and in time of peace went journeys, and 

 carried mefsages to foreign courts, in order to ac- 

 quire a greater knowledge of arms and tournaments^ 

 and to be acquainted with the manners of other na- 

 tions. Atone time they became archers, at another, 

 equerries, serving in the kitchen and at the table ; 

 then they became warriors, and served their appren- 

 ticefhip (if I may be allowed the exprefsion) to 

 chivalry, eight or ten years before receiving it. 

 They again employed this time in performing tour- 

 naments, making war, and visiting foreign countries 

 ■wherever honour, arms, and the ladies were in most 

 repute. The end of ^ these journeys was to im- 

 prove and instruct themselves in the exercises then 

 in vogue at the different courts, and to learn new 

 methods of defence. They did not study them superfi- 

 cially, but remarked every thing with scrupulous 

 attention. 



The evening before the tournament was solem- 

 nised by games that were called efsays or proofs j in 

 which the most expert equerries contended against 

 one another with arms lighter and more easily ma- 

 naged than those of the kaights ; more brittle, and 



