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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: courtier, who had picked up at court some touch of Roman
civilisation from Roman ecclesiastics, was bound to be courteous.
He who held an "honour" or "edel" of land was bound to be
honourable; and he who held a "weorthig," or worthy, thereof, was
bound himself to be worthy. In like wise, he who had the right to
ride a horse, was expected to be chivalrous in all matters befitting
the hereditary ruler, who owed a sacred debt to a long line of
forefathers, as well as to the state in which he dwelt; all dignity,
courtesy, purity, self-restraint, devotion--such as they were
understood in those rough days--centred themselves round the idea of
the rider as the attributes of the man whose supposed duty, as well
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