"The complication of opinions and ideas, of affections and habits, which prompted the chevalier to devote himself to the service of a lady, and by which he strove to prove to her his love, and to merit hers in return, was expressed, in the language of the Troubadours, by a single word, by the word _domnei_, a derivation of _domna_, which may be regarded as an alteration of the Latin _domina_, lady, mistress." It would be absorbing to discover the present feminine attitude toward the profoundest compliment ever paid women by the heart and mind of men in league--the worshipping devotion conceived by Plato and elevated to a living faith in mediaeval France. Through that renaissance of a sublim…
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