"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.