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Quotation from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
“Chivalry!—why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection—the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant”
Ivanhoe, Chapter XXIX (Project Gutenberg #82)
Wounded and unable to fight, Ivanhoe answers Rebecca's challenge to the worth of martial glory with a defense of the knightly ideal.
Citation: "Chivalry!—why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection—the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant" — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter XXIX (Project Gutenberg #82). (id ivanhoe-q3)
