A prince can make a belted knight,

A marquis, duke, and a' that;

But an honest man's aboon his might,

Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): For a' that and a' that.

He was a veray parfit gentil knight.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 72.

A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine.

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 1.