from an 1825 book on the history of chivalry, when teachers "moralised their duties into a thousand similies" we are told that:
“Maidens were taught that a mild dignity of demeanour beseemed them and moralising their duty into a thousand similies their teachers declared that they ought not to resemble the tortoise or the crane which turn the visage and the head above their shoulders and winde their head like a vane but their regard and manner ought to be steadfast in imitation of the beautiful hare which always looks right on.”
Yikes.
