“ It was not long ere the news of this bloody encounter came to the ears of St. George, and the rest of the Christian Champions; who having received the intelligence soon raised their armies and marched directly to Barbary, against the bloody king of Morocco, to chastise his treachery committed against the most renowned English Champion. ”

“ The lady, abash’d at these words, gave information to the Giant, who immediately came forth, of such a monstrous and deformed proportion, that he would have daunted a courageous knight; tho’ strong and lustful for an encounter; yet George (tho' much enfeebled by hunger) with a magnanimous resolution set upon him, and notwithstanding the Giant was armed with a mighty bar of iron, the Christian Champion dealt him such blows, that, in fine, the Giant was forced to surrender his life, and the command of the castle into the hands of St. George. ”

“ There lay an arm with a hand grasping a sword, as if it would fight yet in its body’s defence. In another place you might behold one who would run away from danger, hut that his legs are so entangled in his fellow’s guts he could not stir ”

“ But the heroic Champions, not minding to spend their time in the idle bower of peace, and to let their armour hang rusting on the wall, when so much action was to be done in the world; they therefore summoned their soldiers to re-assume their courage, and to put themselves in an equipage for war. St. George leaving the government of the land, in his absence, to four of the' principal Peers of Morocco; the whole army marched directly to Egypt against K. Ptolemy, who had confederated with Almidor for fending St. George into Persia. ”

“ Whosoever therefore desires riches, honours and rewards, know, that they are all to be gotten by the overthrow of those miscreants, who will fly before your valour, as flocks of sheep before the greedy wolf. ”

“ At that time Almidor, the black king of Morocco, was in earnest suit with king Ptolemy, for to have his daughter Sabrine in marriage, and having notice of St. George’s victory, fearing he would become his rival, she intended to rob him of his honour, and to that purpose, hired twelve Egyptian Knights, who set upon St. George as he was coming to court; but the valiant Champion so behaved himself, that in a little space he made their lives pay for their treachery ”

“ Three days together did this bloody conflict: hold, the night scarce giving them time to breath in, but before the fun began his diurnal race, they returned their strength to a more eager encounter; horror, bloodshed and amazement was on their side, and death rode triumphant thro’ the whole host; but the valiant St. George (whose courage was never wanting at all essays) being minded to put on end to the fight, singled out the Morocco King, betwixt whom and the English Champion was a long and dangerous encounter; but Almidor, not able to withstand the mighty puissance of St. ”

“ George, who, with a nimble pace, never rested till he was within the confines of Greece, beyond the reach of the Persian. horsemen, who in vain pursued after. But now, hunger again oppressed him as sharp as imprisonment did before, so that several days his horse and he fared alike, being forced to eat the grass of the field, and to drink the water of the running streams; at last he espied a castle not far off, whether he directed his weary steps, desiring of a lady who stood looking over the walls, a meal of meat to releave a knight almost famished ”

“ George, as soon as she beheld him, wallowed from her hideous den, and gave him a fierce assault with her wings and tail, who nimbly avoided her fury, gave her such a thrust with his spear, that it shivered into five hundred pieces; the dragon coming on afresh, smote him such a deadly blow, as felled both horse and man to the ground; when again riling and stepping a little backwards. he went under the protection of an orange tree, which was of such virtue, that no venomous thing durst approach unto it, where this valiant knight a. ”

“ Thirst of honour, and hope of gain, the two spurs that prick men forward to worthy enterprizes, caused St. James to join himself to this honourable company, yea, to outgo them in noble resolutions; for scouring over the plain before the hunters, he came into a spacious forest, where his valour quickly had an object to work upon, being a mighty wild boar, lying before his mossy den, of such a wonderful bigness and proportion, as is almost incredible to declare, but the magnanimous Champion St. ”

“ Victoria! The enemy of Egypt is overthrown.
This being made known to K. Ptolemy. St. George was most royally received by him, but far more courteously by his beautiful daughter, Sabrine, who then set her affections so deeply on him, as length of time would not wear it out, which she could not forbear to express unto him, and once at such a time as she was overheard by this black-a-moor King, whose love she derided in respect to the English Knight’s, proffering to forsake her parents and idol-gods, and to travel with him wheresoever Fortune would guide their steps ”

“ O let me fall a sacrifice for their safety, and stain not your hands in their guiltless blood, but spare them and us, and we shall not only become your servants, but forsake the belief of our false prophets, and henceforth believe in the Christians, God. ”

“ This sword cannot be pulled forth,
But by a Knight out of the North.
St. David verily imagining himself to be that knight of the north, courageously assayed to pull it forth but no sooner was his hand on the hilt, but his senses were opprest with a somniferous sleep, that it was impossible for him to awake till the enchantment was finished, which afterwards was performed by St. George, whose exploits we now come to relate. ”

“ Patrick the occasion of their journey, with an account of the achievements both of St, Anthony and St. Andrew, as you heard before in the beginning of this chapter, St. Patrick comforted them the best: he could; like a noble knight undertook to be their conductor in their undertakings, having himself a mind to behold those magnanimous Knights who formerly had been his companions in the cave of Kalby, in which journeys we will for a while leave them
till we relate the actions of the seventh and last Champion St. David of Wales.
CHAP. VI.
How St. ”

“ The Necromancer after he had briefly declared his forepast: life to St. George, gave a most terrible groan and died; whose head, with the enchanted sword, the English Champion gave to St. David, to carry to the Tartarian Court, according to his promise, whilst he himself travelled towards Barbary, where our muse will now attend him.
CHAP. VII.
How St. ”