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 3 Com, fiyl, so dix lo cauayler,      3a E com, dix lermita, no saps e no saps tu qual es la regla e       tu qual es la retgla e lorde de lorde de cauayleria? e com pots       caualleria? E com pots tu demanar tu demanar cauayleria tro sapies      caualleria fins que sapies lorde de cauayleria? cor negun        lorde, car negun cavaller no pot cauayler no pot mantenir lorde        mantenir lorde si nol sap e tot que no sap, ni pot amar son           lo que pertany a lorde: orde ni so que pertany a son orde, si no sap lorde de cauayleria, ni sap conexer lo fayliment que sia contra son orde. Ni negun cauayler no deu fer          e negun caualler sino sap cauayler si no sap lorde de           lorde de caualleria no es caualler, cauayleria, cor desordenat cauayler   car desordenat caualler es es qui fa cauayler e no                qui fa altre caualler e no li sap li sap mostrar les custumes quis      mostrar los costums que pertanyen pertanyen a cauayler. a caualler.

4 Bel amic, ço dix lo cauayler,        Mon fill, dix lermita, tot lorde la regla e lorde de cauayleria es     es en aquest libre scrit, lo qual

3 "How now, my son," this             3a "And how now," said the said the knight, "and do you          hermit, "do you not know what not know what the rules and           the rules and the Order of the Order of Chivalry are? How        Chivalry are? And how can you can you ask for knighthood before     ask for knighthood before you you know the Order of                 know the order, for no knight Chivalry? For no knight can           can maintain the order if he maintain the order that he does        does not know it and all that not know, nor can he love his         pertains to the order: and no order nor what pertains to his         knight, if he does not know the order if he does not know the         Order of Chivalry, is a knight, Order of Chivalry nor can distinguish for a poor knight is he who makes the faults that are                   another a knight and cannot against his order. Neither ought      show him the practices which any knight if he does not know        pertain to a knight." Ibid., the Order of Chivalry make a           chap. xxx. knight, for a poor knight is he who makes a knight and cannot show him the practices which pertain to a knight." Ibid., p. vi.

4 "My fair friend," this said        4a "My son," said the hermit, the knight, "the rules and the       "the whole order is described in