The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.
We shall now seek that which we shall not find
For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.
And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.
What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?