“A knight there was, and that a worthy man,
That from the time he first began
To riden out, he loved chivalry,
Truth and honour, freedom and courtesy…
At mortal battles had he fought fifteen…
And each time slain his foe…
He was a truly perfect, gentle knight.”
How do you imagine someone could be a “truly perfect, gentle knight” while slaying “his foe”?
I don’t understand why Geoffrey Chaucer said like that because I think that no one can be a perfect person while they’re slaying someone else.
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lumpy123 said,
June 10, 2009 @ 9:58 pm
very poetic