THE LINE OF LOVE

BY

JAMES BRANCH CABELL


1921




TO

ROBERT GAMBLE CABELL I




"He loved chivalrye,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.
And of his port as meek as is a mayde,
He never yet no vileinye ne sayde
In al his lyf, unto no maner wight.
He was a verray parfit gentil knyght."




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