From
Boccaccio’s Filocolo:
“Then
to conclude, the knight was more liberall that
granted his honour than any of the others: and thinke this one thing, that the honour
he gave was not to be againe recovered, the whiche happeneth not in many
other thinges, as of battels,
prowesse, and others like: for if they are at one
time lost, they are recovered at an other, and the
same is possible. Therefore this may suffice for answere
unto your demaund.”