"Yet she not these will wed, nor cavalier That does not, as she deems, all else excell.
-- `Lightly I hold your proof of valour here,'
(Those northern monarchs was she wont to tell)
`And if, like sun amid the stars, one peer Outshines his fellows, him I honour well:
But therefore hold him not, in fierce alarms, Of living men the bravest knight at arms.