A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3.
I will say you, said Sir Gawaine, it beseemeth evil a good knight to despise all ladies and gentlewomen, and peradventure though he hate you he hath some cause, and peradventure he loveth in some other places ladies and gentlewomen, and to be loved again, and he such a man of prowess as ye speak of--"  "Man of prowess--yes, that is the man to please them, Sandy.