(2) Thou shalt defend the church.

(3) Thou shalt respect all weaknesses, and shalt constitute
thyself the defender of them.

(4) Thou shalt love the country in which thou wast born.

(5) Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.

(6) Thou shalt make war against the inflael without cessation and
without mercy.

(7) Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal duties, if they be
not contrary to the law of God.

(8) Thou shalt never lie, and shalt remain faithful to thy
pledged word.

(9) Thou shalt be generous and give largesse to every one.

(10) Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion of the
Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil.

3. This combination of the Christian and the warrior found its
public activity most completely in the Crusades. They gave a
common motive and ideal to all the knights of Europe. They
brought them together for thinking and for fighting. They spread
national traditions and literatures. They made the whole face of
Europe and the borders of the Mediterranean known to the
ambitious, venturesome, daring, and heroic of every European