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Title: With Spurs of Gold
Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds

Author: Frances Nimmo Greene
Dolly Williams Kirk

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[Illustration: "'Ah, my ill-starred blade!' he cried; 'no longer may I
be thy guardian!'" _Frontispiece_]

With Spurs of Gold

_Heroes of Chivalry and Their Deeds_

By

Frances Nimmo Greene

and

Dolly Williams Kirk

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1928

_Copyright, 1905,_
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

_All rights reserved_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PREFACE

These brief historical sketches were written primarily for young people,
though it is hoped that some older readers may find pleasure in renewing
their acquaintance with heroes of chivalry whose names are familiar
still, but whose deeds are recalled to mind but vaguely.

It is the purpose of the book to enliven the study of history by giving
the romantic details omitted in text-books, and to enable the readers to
form a more vivid and lifelike conception of the great men with whom it
deals and the turbulent and picturesque times in which they lived.

The endeavor of the authors has been to narrate events and portray
character accurately and impartially, but in the sympathetic spirit that
recognizes the wide difference between modern standards of conduct and
the ideals of the Middle Ages,--the spirit that strives to depict
vividly and adequately the fine, strong virtues and great deeds that won
for these knights the unbounded admiration of their own age, rather than
to dwell upon those traits and acts that are justly condemned by the
finer moral sense of the twentieth century. Emphasis is laid upon the
noble in character and deed rather than the ignoble, on the great rather
than the little.

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