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A04555	The most famous history of the seauen champions of Christendome Saint George of England, Saint Dennis of Fraunce, Saint Iames of Spaine, Saint Anthonie of Italie, Saint Andrew of Scotland, Saint Pattricke of Ireland, and Saint Dauid of Wales. Shewing their honorable battailes by sea and land: their tilts, iousts, and turnaments for ladies: their combats vvith giants, monsters, and dragons: their aduentures in forraine nations; their inchauntments in the holie land: their knighthoods, prowesse, and chiualrie, in Europe, Affrica, and Asia, with their victories against the enemies of Christ.; Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome. Part 1	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1596 (1596)	STC 14677; ESTC S109165	135,141	216

raging seas arriued in the vnhappy dominions of Iuda vnhappy by reason of the long and troublesome misery hee indured for the loue of a fayre Iew For comming to the rich and beautifull Citty of Ierusalem being in that age the woonder of the world for braue buildings Princely Pallaces gorgeous Monuments and time woondering Temples hee so admired the glorious scituation thereof being the richest place that euer his eyes beh●ld that he stoode before the walles of Ierusalem one while gazing vppon her golden gates glistering against the Suns bright countenance another while beholding her stately P●nnacles whose lofty péering tops seemde to touch the Clouds another while woondring at her towers of Iasper Iett and Ebony her strong and fortefied walles thrée times doubled about the Citty the glistering Spires of the Temples of Sion built in the fashion and similitude of two Piramides the auncient monument of Greece whose battlements were couered with stéele the walles burnished with siluer and the ground paued with tinne Thus as this inobled and famoused knight at A●m●s stood beholding the scituation of Ierusalem there sodainely thundred such a peale of Ordinance within the Citty that it séemed in his rauished conceit to shake the vales of heauen and to mooue the déepe foundations of the fastned earth whereat his horse gaue such a sodaine start that he le●t forty foote from the place whereon he stood After this he heard the chearefull sound of Drums and the ecchoes of brazen Trumpets by which the good Champion exspected some honorable pastime or some great t●rnament to be at hand which indeede so fell out for no sooner did he cast his vigilant eyes toward the East side of the City but he beheld a troope of well appointed horse come marching through the Gates after them twelue Armed Knights mounted on Warlike Coursees bearing in their handes twelue blood red streamers wheron was wrought in silke the picture of Adonis wounded with a Bore after them the King drawne in a Charriot by Spanish Genets which be a certaine kind of Steeds ingendred by the winde The Kings Guard were a hundred n●ked Moores with Turkish Bowes and Darts feathered with Rauens quilles after them marched Celestine the ●ing of Ierusalems faire Daughter mounted on a t●me Unicorne in her hand a Iauelin of siluer Armed with a breast plate of gold artificially wrought like the skales of a Porcupine her Guard were a hundred Amazonian Dames ●lad in greene 〈◊〉 after them foll●wed a ●umber of ●●quiers Gentlemen some vpon Barbarian Stéeds some vpon Arabian Palfray●s and some on foote in pace more nimbler than the tripping D●are ● more swifter than the tameles Harts v●on the mountaines of Thessalie Thus N●buzaradan great King of Ierusalem for so was he called solemnely ●unted in the Wildernes of Iuda b●eing a countrie verie much anoyed with wilde beasts as the Lyon the Leopard the Bore and such like In which exercise the King apointed as it was procl●imed by his chiefe Harrold at Armes the which he heard repeated by a shéepheard in the fieldes that whosoeuer s●ewe the first wilde beast in the Forrest shuld haue in reward a Cors●et of stéele so richlie ingraued that it shuld be worth a thousand sickles of siluer Of which Honorable enterprise when the Champion had vnderstanding with what liberall bountie th● aduent●rus Knights should bee rewarded his heart was ●●ang●ted with inuincible courage thirsting after glorious attempts not onely for hope of gaine but for the desire of Honour At which hys illustrious and vndaunted 〈◊〉 aymed at to internize his déedes in the memorable records of Fame and to shine as a Christall mirrour to all insuing times So closing downe his Beuer and locking on his furniture scoured ouer the plaines before the Hunters of Ierusalem in pa●e more swifter than the winged windes till he aproched an olde solitarie and vnfrequented Forrest wherein he espied a huge and mighty wilde Bore lying before his mossie den gnawing vpon the mangled ioynts of some passenger which hee had murthered as hee trauailed through the Forrest This Bore was of a wonderfull length and bignes so tyrrable to behold that at the first sight hee almost daunted the courage of this Spanish Knight for his monstrous head séemed vgly and deformed hys eyes sparkeled like a ●irie furnace hys tuskes more sharper than picks of ste●le and from hys nostrels fumed such a violent breath that it séemed like a tempestious whirle winde his brissels were more harder than seauen times milted brasse and his tayle more loathsome than a wreath of Snakes N●re whom● when Saint Iames approched and beheld how he drank the blood of humane creatures and deuoured their fleshe hée blew hys siluer horne which as then hung at the pummell of hys saddle in a scarfe of gréene silke whereat the furious monster roused himselfe and most fiercely assailed the Noble Champion which most nimbly leaped from his horse with his speare stroke such a violent blow against the brest of the Bor● that it shiuered into twentie péeces Then drawing hys good Fauchion from hys side gaue him a second incounter but all in vaine for hee stroke as it were on a Rocke of stone or a piller of Iron nothing hurtfull to the Bore but at last with staring eies which sparkled like burning stéele and with open Iawes the gréedy monster assailed the Champion intending to swallow him aliue but the nimble Knight as then trusted more vpon pollicie than to fortitude and so for aduantage skipped from place to place till on a sodaine he thrust his kéene edged 〈◊〉 a●e downe his intestine throate and so most valiantly split his hart in sunder The which beeing accomplished to his own des●ers he cut off the Bores head and so presented the Honour of his Combat to the king of Ierusalem who as then with his mightie traine of Knights were but now en●●red the Forrest but ha●ing gratiously accepted the gi●t and bountifullie fulfilled his promises demaunding the Champions Countrie his Religion place of Natiuitie who no sooner had intelligence how he was a Christian Knight and borne in the territories of Spaine but presently his patience exchaunged into extreame furie and by these wordes he● expressed his cankered stomacke towardes the Christian Champion Knowst thou not bold Knight said the King of Ierusalem that it is the law of Iuda to harbour no vncircumsiced man but eyther bannish him the land or end his dayes by some vntimel● death Thou art a Christian and therefore shalt thou die not all thy countries treasure the wealthie Spanish mines nor if all the Alphes which deuide the countries of Italie and Spaine were turned to hilles of burnisht gold and made my lawfull heritage they shuld not redéeme thy life Yet for the Honour thou haste done in Iuda I grant thée this loue by the law of Armes to choose thy death els hadst thou suffered a timmerous torment which seuere Iudgment amazed the Champion that desperately he would haue gorgde

the murthered Princes to my eares but I 〈◊〉 into such a discontented passion that I abandoned my selfe from company of people and fate for seauen monthes 〈◊〉 a solitarie passion lamenting the losse of my Children 〈◊〉 wéep●ng Niobe which was the sorrowfull●st Lady 〈◊〉 nor liued During which time the report of Floridons vnhappie Tragedy was bruted to hys fathers eares beeing the sole King of Armenia whose griefes so excéeded the bounds of reason that with all conuenient spéede the greatest strength Armenia could make and in reuenge of his sonnes vnhappy murther entered our Territories and with hys wel approued warrious subdued our Prouinces slaughtered our Souldiers conquered our Captaines slew our Commons burnt our Citties and left our Country villages desolate whereby when I beheld my Countrey ouerspread with famine fire and sworde thrée intesti●e plagues wherewith heauen scourgeth the sinnes of the wicked I was forced for safegard of my life to forsake my natiue habitation and Kingly gouernement onely committing my fortune like a 〈◊〉 Exile to 〈◊〉 vnknown passages where care was 〈◊〉 companion and discontent my onely soliciter At last it was my desteny to ariue in this vnhappy place which I supposed to be the walks of dispayre where I had not remayned many dayes in my melancholly passions but 〈◊〉 thought the warie ●awes of déepe Auerna op●ned from whence ascended a most fearefull diuell that inticed mee to bequeath my fortune to hys disposing and he would defend me from the furie of the whole world to which I presently condescended vpon some assurance Then presently hee placed before my face this Inchaunted sword so surely closed in stone that should neuer be pulled out but by the hands of a Christian Knight and till that taske were performed I should liue exempt from all danger although all the Kingdomes of the earth assailed me which taske most aduenterous Champion thou now haste performed whereby I knowe the houre of my death approacheth and my time of confusion to be at hand This discourse pronounced by the Nigromancer Ormondine was no sooner finished but the worthie Champion Saint George heard such a tyrrible ratling in the skyes such 〈◊〉 in the earth that be exspected some strange euent to follow● then casting his eies aside he saw the Inchaunted Garden to vanish and the Champion of Wales to awake from hys dead sléepe wherein hee had remayned 〈…〉 who like one newly risen from a sounds for a 〈◊〉 stood spéechles not able to vtter one word till he beheld the Noble Champion of England that stedfastly gazed vpon the Nigromancer who at the vanishing of the Inchauntment presently gaue a most tyrrible grone died The 〈◊〉 Champions after many curteous imbrasinges and kinde gréetings reuealed each to other the straunge aduentures they had passed and how Saint Dauid was bound by the oath of hys Knighthood to performe the aduenture of Ormondine to which Saint George presently condescended who deliuered the Inchaunted sword with the Nigromancers head into the handes of Saint Dauid the which he presently disceuered from hys dead body Here must my wearie Muse leaue Saint Dauid trauailing with Ormondines ●ead to the Tartarian Emperour and speake of the following aduentures that hapned to Saint George after his departure from the Inchaunted Garden CHAP. XI How Saint George 〈◊〉 at Tripolie in Barbar●● where he stole away Sabra the Kinges Daughter of Egip● from the Blackamore King and how shee was knowne to be● a pure virgin by the mo●ne● of a Lyon and what hapned to him in the same aduenture SAint George after the recouerie of Saint Dauid as you heard in the former Chapter dispatched his iourny towards Christend●●● whose pleasant bankes he long desired to behold and thought euerie day a yeare till hys eyes enioyed a swéete sight of hys Natiue Countrie England vpon whose Chalkey cliffes he had not treade in many a wearie Sommers day therefore committing his iournie to a fortunate successe trauailde through many a dangerous countrie where the people were not only of a bloody disposition giuen to all manner of wickednes but the s●yle greatl● anoyed with wilde Beasts through which he could not well trauaile without danger therefore hee carried continually in one of hys handes a weapon ready● charged to 〈◊〉 with the Heathen people if occasion should serue and in the other hande a bright burning blaze of fire to defend him from the fur●e of the wilde Beasts 〈◊〉 by violence they assayled h●m Thus in extreame daunger trauailed the Noble and aduenterous Champion Saint George till ●ee ari●ed in the Territories of o● Barbarie in which Countrie he purposed for a time to remaine and to séeke for some noble atchiuement whereby hys 〈◊〉 ●ight be 〈◊〉 and hys honored 〈◊〉 through all the King 〈◊〉 of the world and b●●ing incouraged with this Princely ●●gitation the Noble Champion of England climbed to the top of a huge mountaine where he vnlocked hys Beuer which before had not beene lifted vp in many a day and beheld the wide and spacious Countrie how it was beautified with loftie Pines a●●rnde with many goodly Pallaces But amongst the number of the Townes Cities which the English Champion beheld there was one which séemed to excéede the rest both in s●ituation and braue buildinges which he supposed to be the chiefest Cittie in all the Countrie and the place where the King vsually kept hys Court to which place S. George intended to trauaile not to furnish himselfe with any needfull thinge but to accomplish some Honorable aduenture whereby hys worthy deedes might bee enternized in the Bookes of memorie So after he had descended from the top of the stéepy mountaine and had trauailed in a low valley about some two or thrée miles he approched an olde and almost ruinated Hermitage ouer growne with mosse other wither●d wéedes before the entrie of which Hermitage sate an auncient Father vpon a rounde stone taking the heate of the warme Sun which cast such a comfortable brightnes vpon the Hermits face that hys white ●eard séemed to glister like siluer and hys head to excéed the whitelies of the Northen 〈◊〉 Of whom after Saint George had giuen the due reuerence that belonged vnto age demaunded the name of the Countrie and the Cittie hee trauailed to vnder what King the Countrie was gouerned to whom the curteous Hermit thus replyed Most Noble knight for so I g●sse you are by your 〈◊〉 and outward appearance laid the Hermit you are now in the confines of Barbarie the Cittie oppos●●e b●fore your eyes is called Tripolie 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 of Almidor the blacke King of Moroco in which Cittie he now kéepeth hys Court attended on by as many valiant Knights as any King vnder the ●ope of heauen At which wordes the Noble Champion of England sodainely started as though hee had intelligence of some ●al●full newes which d●epely discontented hys Princely mind hys heart was presently incenst with a spéedy reuenge and his minde so extreamely thirsted