Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies/Volume II

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1169476Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies — Volume IIAlfred Richard AllinsonPierre de Bourdeille
Marguerite of Valois

Marguerite of Valois

From an old engraving.



Lives


Of


Fair and Gallant Ladies


By


The Seigneur De Brantôme


TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL




VOLUME II


The Alexandrian Society, Inc

London and New York

1922

Copyright, 1922, by

THE ALEXANDRIAN SOCIETY, Inc.


PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS.

PAGE
Introduction. By Georg Harsdörfer vii

FIFTH DISCOURSE
 
Telling How Fair and Honorable Ladies Do Love Brave and Valiant Men, and Brave Men Courageous Women 3

SIXTH DISCOURSE
 
Of How We Should Never Speak Ill of Ladies, and of the Consequences of So Doing 91

SEVENTH DISCOURSE
 
Concerning Married Women, Widows and Maids: to Wit, Which of These Same Be Better Than the Other to Love 151
Article I. Of the Love of Married Women 156
Article II. Of the Love of Maids 171
Article III. Of the Love of Widows 203
Notes 335