Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry : compiled for the instruction of his daughters : translated from the original French into English in the reign of Henry VI / [by Geoffroy de La Tour Landry] ; edited ... with an introduction and notes by Thomas Wright

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La Tour Landry, Geoffroy de, 14th cent.

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Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.

1906

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"Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry : compiled for the instruction of his daughters : translated from the original French into English in the reign of Henry VI / [by Geoffroy de La Tour Landry] ; edited ... with an introduction and notes by Thomas Wright." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/KntTour-L. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 20, 2025.

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[CHAPTER CXXVIII.]

How hit is almesse to enhaunce a man into grete valour. Capitulo C xxviij.

"[A]T the leste, syth ye wylle not graunte ne accorde that youre doughters loue no man peramours as longe as they shalle be vnwedded̛, please it yow to suffre that, whanne they shall be wedded̛ they may take somme plesaunce of loue, for to hold̛ and̛ behaue them self the more gaye and̛ Ioyefull, and̛ for the better knowe theyr behauynge and̛ maner emonge folke of worsℏip. And̛ as before this tyme I haue sayd̛ to yow, It were to them grete welthe and worsℏip to make a man of none extyme ne of valewe to become of grete valour."