<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534042" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Degenerate Gallants</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[HERNANI, Act I., March, 1830.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>What business brings you here, young cavaliers?<br>Men like the Cid, the knights of bygone years,<br>Rode out the battle of the weak to wage,<br>Protecting beauty and revering age.<br>Their armor sat on them, strong men as true,<br>Much lighter than your velvet rests on you.<br>Not in a lady's room by stealth they knelt;<br>In church, by day, they spoke the love they felt.<br>They kept their houses' honor bright from rust,<br>They told no secret, and betrayed no trust;<br>And if a wife they wanted, bold and gay,<br>With lance, or axe, or falchion, and by day,<br>Bravely they won and wore her. As for those<br>Who slip through streets when honest men repose,<br>With eyes turned to the ground, and in night's shade<br>The rights of trusting husbands to invade;<br>I say the Cid would force such knaves as these<br>To beg the city's pardon on their knees;<br>And with the flat of his all-conquering blade<br>Their rank usurped and 'scutcheon would degrade.<br>Thus would the men of former times, I say,<br>Treat the degenerate minions of to-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+Hugo">Victor Hugo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534042" data-title="The Degenerate Gallants de Victor Hugo" data-description="[HERNANI, Act I., March, 1830.] What business brings you here, young cavaliers? Men like the Cid, the knights of bygone years, Rode out the battle of the weak to wage, Protecting beauty and revering age. Their armor sat on them, strong men as tr..."></div> </div> </div>

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