• Paris of Troy, of whom Spenser says, Faerie Queene , III , ix 34:⁠— “Most famous Worthy of the world, by whome That warre was kindled which did Troy inflame And stately towres of Ilion whilome Brought unto baleflill ruine, was by name Sir Paris, far renown’d through noble fame.” Tristan is the Sir Tristram of the Romances of Chivalry. See his adventures in the Mort d’Arthure . Also Thomas of Ercildoune’s Sir Tristram, a Metrical Romance . His amours with Yseult or Ysonde bring him to this circle of the Inferno. ↩
• Shakespeare, “Sonnet CVI ”:⁠— “When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights.” See also the “wives and daughters of chieftains” that appear to Ulysses, in the Odyssey , Book XI . Also Milton, Paradise Regained , II 357:⁠— “And ladies of the Hesperides, that seemed Fairer than feigned of old, or fabled since Of fairy damsels met in forest wide By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, Lancelot, or Palleas, or Pellenore.” ↩