| Samuel Waddington, comp. The Sonnets of Europe. 1888. | | | | On Knighthood (I.) | | By Folgóre da San Gemignano (c. 1270–c. 1332) |
| | Translated by John Addington Symonds
THIS morn a young squire shall be made a knight; | |
| Whereof he fain would be right worthy found, | |
| And therefore pledgeth lands and castles round | |
| To furnish all that fits a man of might. | |
| Meat, bread, and wine he gives to many a wight; | 5 |
| Capons and pheasants on his board abound, | |
| Where serving men and pages march around; | |
| Choice chambers, torches, and wax candle light. | |
| Barbed steeds, a multitude, are in his thought, | |
| Mailed men at arms and noble company, | 10 |
| Spears, pennants, housing cloths, bells richly wrought; | |
| Musicians following with great barony | |
| And jesters through the land his state have brought, | |
| With dames and damsels whereso rideth he. | | | | |
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