Ode to Chivalrous Conduct

There is a man that we of the brotherhood of chivalry know for his gallantry and exploits. His recent quest for the hand of a maiden fair has resulted nil. His advances accepted but his heart rejected. His attention he showered upon her as the manna from heaven nurturing her soul and mind through her personal agonies. Yet, the great tragedy of this most noble of endeavors was the cruelness of the maiden. Disdain is shown once more for the chivalrous of heart! When his fancy he revealed with such constant attention she accepted only out of self-indulgence, out of selfishness.

The most humane course of actions would have been to have severed, as if with a blade fine and honed, all ties and aspirations so as to let the soul of so gallant a man begin to heal. However, with the long and deliberate slicing of so jagged a knife she wounds him still - a wound that will leave a scar such as dull instruments are wont to do.

Thus, cruelty mocks chivalry.