Unlike the rest of his fellows, he is actually testing his chivalric oaths, and thus already proves himself "more chivalric. ... He should be shameful of his cowardice and wear the girdle as a constant reminder of the "foul taint of sin " since to an ideal knight, death would be preferable to dishonor (2436). ...

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