Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies/Volume II
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 | |