I Believe (Credo)

“Ours is a brotherhood-in-arms from the very beginning. We have been and still are bound to one another in such a way, that each will stand by the other to the death if need be, saving his honour. Thus true affection has brought me to his assistance, to aid him by my body and with all my goods, as he would do the same for me if I had need of him”.

La Curne de Ste Palaye,
Memoires de l’ancienne Chevalrie, Paris 1759