'
'And Montrose, and the Marquis of Winchester,' said Elizabeth; 'you
must not forget the noblest of all.'
'I only forgot to mention them,' said Anne, 'I could not leave them
out. The only difficulty is whom to choose among the Cavaliers.'
'And who comes next?' said Elizabeth.
'Gustavus Adolphus and Sir Philip Sydney.'
'Do not mention them together, they are no pair,' said Elizabeth.
'What a pity it was that Sir Philip was a euphuist.'
'Forgive him for that failing, in consideration of his speech at
Zutphen,' said Anne.
'Only that speech is so hackneyed and commonplace,' said Elizabeth,
'I am tired of it.'
'The deed was not common-place,' said Anne.
'No, and dandyism was as entirely the fault of his time as cruelty
was of Turenne's,' said Elizabeth; 'Sir Walter Raleigh was worse than
Sydney, and Surrey quite as bad, to judge by his picture.'
'It is not quite as bad a fault as cruelty,' said Anne, 'little as
you seem to think of the last.'
'Now comes the chivalric age,' said Elizabeth; 'never mind telling me
all the names, only say who is the first of your heroes--neither
Orlando nor Sir Galahad, I suppose.
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