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Chivalry


By

James Branch Cabell





  "_And I, according to my copy, and
  after the simple cunning that God hath
  sent to me, have down set this in print,
  to the intent that noble men may see and
  learn the noble acts of chivalry._"




Illustrated



New York and London

Harper & Brothers Publishers

1909




Copyright, 1909, by HARPER & BROTHERS.


_All rights reserved._

Published October, 1909.




TO

Anne Branch Cabell


  "AINSI A VOUS, MADAME, A MA TRES HAULTE ET
  TRES NOBLE DAME, A QUI J'AYME A DEVOIR
  ATTACHEMENT ET OBEISSANCE,
  J'ENVOYE CE LIVRET."




Precautional

_Imprimis, as concerns the authenticity of these tales perhaps the less
debate may be the higher wisdom, if only because this Nicolas de Caen,
by common report, was never a Gradgrindian.  And in this volume in
particular, writing it (as Nicolas