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Those who have died before us have left as a memorial their wisdom about how we should conduct ourselves in this present life. They have given us knowledge, wisdom and understanding, and good rules to be governed by. Above all this book is a special work of instruction by which all young gentlewomen especially may learn to behave themselves virtuously, both in their virginity as well as in their wedlock and widowhood, as the book will plainly tell.
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Notes
Alfred T. P. Byles, ed., The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry, Early English Text Society, Original Series 168 (London: Oxford University Press, 1926), p. 121.
W. J. Blyth Crotch, ed., The Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton. Early English Text Society, Original Series 176 (London: Oxford University Press, 1928), p. 99.
N. F. Blake, “The ‘noble lady’ in Caxton’s The Book of the Knight of the Tower,” Notes and Queries 105 (1965): 92 [92–93].
Anatole Montaiglon, Le Livre du Chevalier de La Tour Landry pour l’enseignement de ses filles (1854; repr. Nendeln/Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1972), p. xxix.
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Barnhouse, R. (2006). The Prologues. In: The Book of the Knight of the Tower. Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403983121_2
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