Chivalric Novel Example

Reflects medieval aristocratic society, exalts honor, courage and love of women.
Amadís de Gaula offers a model of the chivalric novel. I transcribe a few paragraphs from this work:
"Sir, if it were up to you, it would be time to be a gentleman. The king said: How, Doncel del Mar? Are you already struggling to maintain cavalry? Know that it is light to have and serious to maintain: and whoever wins this name of chivalry will want to maintain it in his honor, so many and so serious are the things that he has to do, that many times his heart gets angry: and if such a gentleman is that out of fear or cowardice He stops doing what is convenient, death would be better than living shame, and therefore he considered it good that for some time you you suffer. The Doncel del Mar told him: "Not for all that will I stop being a knight; that if in my mind I did not have to fulfill what you have said, my heart would not strive to be; and therefore at your mercy sov servant, fulfill in this with me what you must: if not, I will look for someone else to do it. "The king, fearing that he would do so, said:" Doncel del Mar, I I know when it will be necessary for you to be, and more to your honor, and I will do it: and as long as you dress your weapons and gear, for whom do you care to go? "

• —To King Perion, he said; that they tell me that he is a good knight and married to the queen's sister, my lady, and let her know how he was her servant; and with this I thought that I would be a knight with a degree.
—Now, said the king, be here: that when the season comes, you will be honestly so. "{Cf. Complementary bibliography, N9 2)