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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03174	An excellent ballad of St. George for England, and the King of Egypt's daughter, whom he delivered from death, and how he slew a monstrous dragon, &c. To the tune of, Flying fame, &c. Licensed and entered according to order.		1693 (1693)	Wing E3793; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.7[128]	3,568	2

An excellent Ballad of St. GEORGE for England and the King of Egypt's Daughter whom he delivered from Death and how he slew a Monstrous Dragon c. To the Tune of Flying Fame c. Licensed and Entered according to Order OF Hectors Deeds did Homer sing of the sack of stately Troy What grief fair Hellen did them bring which was Sir Paris only joy And with my pen I must recite St. Georges Deeds an English Knight Against the Saraze●s full rude fought he full long many a Day Where many a Gyant he subdu'd in honour of the Christian way And after many adventures past To Egypt Land he came at last And as the Story plain doth tell within that Country there did rest A dreadful Dragon fierce and fell whereby they were full sore opprest Who by his poisoned breath each Day Did many of the City slay The Grief whereof did grow so great throughout the Limits of the Land That they their wisemen did intreat to shew their cunning out of hand Which way they might this Dragon ' stroy That did their Country so annoy The wisemen all before the King fram'd this Matter incontinent The Dragon none to death might bring by any means they could invent His skin more hard than brass was found That sword or spear could pierce or wound When this the people understood they cryed out most piteously The Dragons breath infected their blood that they each day in heaps did Dye Amongst them such a Plague it bred The Living scarce could bury the Dead No means there was that they could find for to appease the Dragons rage But by a Virgin pure and kind whereby he might his fury swage Each Day he should a Maiden eat For to allay his Hunger great This thing by art the VVisemen found which truly must observed be VVherefore throughout the City round a Virgin pure of good Degree VVas by the Kings Commission still Took up to serve the Dragons will Thus did the Dragon every Day a Maiden of the town devour Till all the Maids were worn away and none were left that present hour Saving the kings fair Daughter bright Her Fathers joy and hearts Delight Then came the Officers to the king this Heavy Message to declare VVhich did his heart with sorrow sting She is quoth he my Kingdoms Heir O let us all be poisoned here E'er she should dye that is my dear Then rose the People presently and to the king in rage they went VVho said His Daughter dear should dye the Dragons fury to prevent Our daughters all are dead quoth they And have been made the Dragons prey And by their blood thou hast been blest and thou hast sav'd their life thereby And now in Justice it doth rest for us thy Daughter so should dye O save my Daughter said the king And let me feel the Dragons sting Then fell fair Sabrine on her knee and to her Father then did say O Father strive not thus for me but let me be the Dragons prey It may be for my sake alone This Plague upon the land was shown T is better I should die she said than all your subjects perish quite Perhaps the Dragon here was laid for my offence to work this spight And after he hath suckt my gore Your Land shall know the grief no more What hast thou done my Daughter dear for to deserve this heavy scourge It is my fault it shall appear which makes the Gods our state to grudge Then ought I dye to stint the strife And to preserve thy happy life Like mad men all the people cry'd thy death to us can do no good Our safety only doth abide to make thy Daughter Dragons food Lo here I am O then quoth she Therefore do what you will with me Nay stay dear daughter quoth the Queen and as thou art a Virgin bright That hath for Vertue famous been so let me cloath thee all in white And crown thy head with flowers sweet An Ornament for Virgins meet And when she was attired so according to her Mothers mind Vnto the stake then did she go to which they did this virgin bind And being bound to stake and thrall She bid farewel unto them all Farewel dear Father then quoth she and my sweet Mother meek and mild Take you no thought or care for me for you may have another Child Here for my Countries good I le dye Which I receive most willingly The King and Queen with all their train with weeping eyes then went their way And let their Daughter there remain to be the hungry Dragons prey But as she there did weeping lie Behold St. George came riding by And seeing there a Lady bright fast tied to the stake that day Most like unto a Valiant Knight straight unto her did take his way Tell me sweet Maiden then quoth he Wh●● person thus abused thee And lo by Christ his blood I vow which here is figured on my breast I will revenge it on his brow and break my Launce upon his crest And speaking thus whereas he stood The Dragon issu'd out of the wood The Lady that did first espy the Dreadful Dragon coming so Unt● St. George aloud did cry and willed him away to go Here comes that ugly Fiend quoth she That soon will make an end of me St. George then looking round about the fiery Dragon soon espy'd And like a knight of Courage stout against him he did fiercely ride And with such blows he did him greet That he fell under his horses feet For with a Launce that was so strong as he came gaping in his face In at his mouth he thrust it long the which could pierce no other place And there within this Ladys view This dreadful Dragon then he slew The savour of his poisoned breath could do this Christian knight no harm Thus he did save this Lady from Death and home he led her by the arm Which when Ptolomy did see There was great Ioy and Melody When as this famous knight St. George had slain the Dragon in the field And brought the Lady to the Court whose sight with joy their hearts then fill'd Ye in the Aegyptian Court then staid Till he most falsly was betray'd The Lady Sabrine lov'd him well he counted her his only Ioy But when their loves was open known it prov'd St. Georges great annoy The Morrocco King was then in Court Who to the Orchard did resort Daily to take the pleasant air for pleasure sake he used to walk Under the wall whereas he heard St. George with fair Sarabrine talk Their loves he revealed to the King Which to St. George great woo did bring These Kings together did devise to make this Christian knight away With Letters him Ambassador they straightway sent to Persia And wrote to the Sophy him to kill And treacherously his blood to spill Thus they for good did him reward with evil and most subtilty By such vile means they did Devise to work his Death most cruelly While he in Persia abode He straight Destroy'd each idol-god VVhich being done he straight was slung into a Dungeon dark and deep But when he thought upon his wrong he bitterly began to weep Yet like a knight of Courage stout Forth of the Dungeon he got out And in the night three Horse-keepers this valiant Knight by power slew Although he fasted many a day and then away from thence he flew On the best steed that Sophy had VVhich when he knew he was full sad Then into Christendom he came and met a Giant by the way VVith him in Combat he did fight most valiantly a Summers day VVho yet for all his batts of steel VVas forc'd the sting of death to feel From Christendom this valiant knight then with warlike Souldiers past Vowing upon that Heathen Land to work revenge which at the last E'er thrice three years was gone spent He did unto his great content Save only Aegypt land he spar'd for Sabrine bright her only sake And e'er his rage he did suppress he meant a tryal kind to make Ptolomy did know his strength in field And unto him did kindly yield Then he the Morrocco king did kill and took fair Sabrine to his wife And afterwards contentedly with her St. George did leed his life VVho by the vertue of a Chain Did still a Virgin pure remain To England then St George did bring this Gallant Lady Sabrine bright An Eunuch also came with him in whom the Lady did delight None but these three from Egypt came Now let me Print St. Georges Fame VVhen they were in the Forrest great the Lady did desire to rest And then St. George to kill a Deer to feed thereon did think it best Left Sabrine and the Eunuch there VVhile he did go and kill a Deer The mean time in his absence came two hungry Lyons fierce and fell And tore the Eunuch presently in pieces small the truth to tell Down by the Lady then they laid VVhereby it seem'd she was a maid But when St. George from hunting came and did behold this heavy chance Yet for this lovely virgin pure his courage stout he did advance And came within the Lions sight vvho run at him with all their might But he being no whit dismaid but like a stout and valiant knight Did kill the hungry Lions both within the Lady Sabrines sight But all this while sad and demure She stood there like a virgin pure But when St. George did truly know his Lady was a virgin true Those doleful thoughts that e'er was dumb began most firmly to renew He set her on a Palfrey steed And towards England came with speed vvhere he arrived in short time unto his Father's Dwelling-place vvhere with his Dearest Love he lived when Fortune did their Nuptials grace They many years of Ioy did see And led their lives at Coventry Printed by and for Alex. 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