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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

hys Court in the Cittie of Couentrie who immediatly vpon the Confession of the murther gaue this seuere iudgment against her First to be conueied to Prison there to remaine for the tearme of twelue moneths and at the end whereof to be burned like a most wicked offender yet because she was the Daughter of a King and loyall Lady to so Noble a Knight his Maiesty in mercie graunted her this fauour that if she could get any Knight at Armes before the time were expired that would be her Champion and by Combat redéeme her from the fire she should liue otherwise if her Champion were vanquished then to suffer the former Iudgement Thus haue you heard the true discourse of all things which hapned till my departure from England where I left her in Prison and since that time fiue monthes are fullie exspired Therefore most renowned Champion as you loue the life of your Ladie and wish her deliuerie make no tarriance but with all spéed post into England for I greatly feare before you ariue vppon that blessed shore the time will be finished and Sabra suffer death for want of a Champion to defend her cause This doleful discourse draue saint George with the other Knights and Champions to such an e●tasie of minde that euery one departed to their lodging Chambers with dumbe signes of sorrow being not able to speake one word where for that night they lamented the mishap of so vertuous a Lady The Egyptian King her father he abandoned the sight of all companies and repayred to the toppe of an high Tower built of Marble stone wherein hee barred himselfe fast with yron bolts so that none could come within the hearing of his lamentations then raged hee vp and downe like franticke Oedipus tearing his eyes from their naturall Celles accusing heauen of iniustice condemning earth of iniquity and accursing man for such an execrable crime one while wishing his daughters byrth hower had béene her buriall day another while that some vnlucky Plannet would descend the firmament and fall vppon his miserable head being in this extreame passion hee neuer hoped to sée his daughters countenance againe and so about midnight being a time when desperate men practise their owne destructions he cast himselfe headlong from the toppe of the Tower and broake his necke and all besprinckled the flinty pauements with his blood and braines No sooner was the night vanished and bright Phoebus entred the Zodiacke of heauen but his bruised body liueles and senseles was found by his seruants lying in the Pallace yard all to be beaten in péeces against the grounde The wofull newes of this selfe-wild murtherer they presently told to certaine Egyptian Knights who tooke his scattered limbs and carryed them to saint Georges Chamber where they found him arming himselfe for his departure towardes England But at this wofull spectackle he tooke a seconde conceited griefe in such extreame manner that it had almost cost him his life but that the Egyptian Knights gaue him many comfortable spéeches and by thē consent of many Dukes Earles Lords and Barrons with many other of the late Kings priuy Councell they el●cted him the true succéeding King of Egipt by the marriage of Ptolomies daughter which Royall proffer saint George refused not but took vpon him the Regiment of the whole Country so that for that day his iourney toward England was stayed and vppon the third day following his Coronation was appoynted which they solemnely perfourmed to the high honour of all the Christian Champions For the Egyptian Pieres caused saint George to be apparralled in Royall U●stures like a King he had on a sute of flaming greene like an Emerauld and a Mantle of scarlet very richly furd and wrought curiously with gold then the other sixe Champions lead him vp to the Kings Throane and set him in a Chayre of Ebony with pummells of siluer which stood vpon an Allablaster Elephant then came thrée of the greatest Lords in Egypt and set a Crowne of gold vpon his head then followed two Knights with a Scepter and a naked S●●●rde to signefie that he was chiefe Champion of all the R●alme and Lord of all that appertained to the Crowne of Egypt This being performed in most sumptuous and stately manner the Trumpets with other Instruments began to sound wherat the generall company with ioyfull voyces cryed all together Long liue saint George true Champion for England and King of Egypt Then was he conducted to the Royall Pallace where for ten dayes he remayned amongst his Lords and Knights spending the time in great ioy and pleasure the which béeing finished hys Ladyes distresse constrayned him to a sodaine departure therefore he left the guiding of his Lande to twelue Egyptian Lordes binding them all by oath to redeliuer it at his returne likewise charging them to interre the body of Ptolomie in a sumptuous Tombe befitting the body of so Royall a Potentate Also appoynting the sixt Champions to rayse their Tents and muster vp anewe their souldiers and with all spéede march into Persia and there by dynt of bloody warre reuenge his former iniuries vpon the cursed Soldan This change being giuen the next morning by breake of day 〈◊〉 buckled on his Armour mounted on his swift footed Stéed and had hys friends in Egipt for a season adue and so in companie of the Knight that brought him that vnluckie newes hee tooke his iournie with all spéed toward England In which trauaile we leaue him for a time Also passing ouer the spéedy prouision made by the Christian Champions in Egypt for the inuasion of Persia and returne to sorrowfull Sabra béeing in priosn awayting each minute to receaue the finall stroke of impartiall death for now had the rowling Plannets brought their yeares trauailes to an end yet Sabra had no intelligence of any Chāpion that would defend her cause therefore shee prepared her dilicate bodie to receaue her latest breath of life the time beeing come shee was brought to the place of execution whether she went as willinglie and with as much ioy as euer shée went before time vnto her marriage for she had made her humble submission to the world and vnfainedly committed her soule to God She béeing at the stake where the king was present with many thousands as wel of Noble personages as of Common people to behold this wofull Tragedie the deaths-man stripped off her Garment which was of blacke sarce●et in her snow-white smocke bound her with an Iron chaine vnto the stake then placed they round about her tender body both Pitch Turpentine and Gunpowder with other merciles things therby to make her death the more easier and her paine the shorter Which béeing ●one the King caused the Harrold to summon in the Challenger who at the sound of the Trūpet came trasing in vpon a Rone coloured Stéede without any kinde of marke and trapped with rich trappinges of gold precious stones of great price there came foorth at the Horse mouth two tuskes

the messenger to tell hys woful tale Faire Englands Champion said he in stéede of Armes get Swallowes winges and flye to England if euer thou 〈◊〉 sée thy beloued Lady for she is iudged to bee burned at a ●take for murthering the Earle of Couentrie whose lustfull desires would 〈◊〉 stayned her honour with infamie and made her the 〈◊〉 of vertuous women Yet this ●ercie is graunted by th●●ing of England that if within ●oure and twenty mon●● 〈◊〉 Champion may be found that for her sake will ventu●● 〈◊〉 life and if it be his happie fortune to ouercome the cha●●●nger of her death she shall liue But if it b● his fatall destenie to bee conquered then must she suffe● the heauie iudgement before pronounced therefore as 〈◊〉 loue the life of your chaste and beloued Ladie hai●e into ●ngland delay no time for delay is dangerous her lif● in hazard to be lo●● This wofull disourse stroke such a terror to S. Georges hart likewise to the Egyptian King her father that for a 〈◊〉 they stoode gazing●●● 〈…〉 face as though they had b●n ●●raught of their wit● n●t able to speak one word but at last saint George recouered his former sences and breathed forth this sorrowfull lamentation O England vnkinde England haue I aduentured my life in thy defende an● fo● thy safety haue layn● in the fields 〈◊〉 Ma●● 〈…〉 in many a partching 〈◊〉 day and ma●● a fréezing winters night when you haue taken your quiet sléepes in beds of Downe and will you repay me with this discurtesie or rather vndeserued wrong to adiudge her spotles body to consuming 〈◊〉 whos● bl●●d if it 〈…〉 before I co●e I vowe neuer to draw my trusty sword in Englands quarrell more nor neuer account my selfe her Champion but I will rend my warli●e colours into a thousand péeces the which I weare vpon 〈◊〉 Burgonet I meane the crimson Crosse of England and wander vnknowne Countries obscurely from the sigh● of any Christians eye Is it possible that England is so ingratefull to her friend Can that renowned Country harbour such a lustfull monster to seeke to dishonour her within whose hart the fountaine of vertue springes Or can that Noble Citty the Nurse and Mother of my life entertayne so vile an Homeside that will offer violence to her whose chastety and true honour hat● caused tamelesse Lyons to sléepe in her lap In this sorrowfull mam●● wearied saint George the time away vntill the Egyp●ian King whose sorrowes being as great as his put 〈◊〉 from his complaint●s and requested the English Knight to tell the true discourse of Sabraes proffered violence and how she mu●t●●red the lustfull Earle of Couentry to whom after a bitter sigh or two the wofull messenger replyed in this manner Most Noble Princes and Potentates of ●he ear●h prepare your eares to entertaine the wofulst ●ale that euer English Knight 〈◊〉 and your eyes to wéepe a sea of brackish teares I would I had no tongue to tell it nor hart to remember it But seeing I am compelled through the loue and duty I owe to the Noble Champions of Christendome to expresse it then thus it was It was the fortune nay I may say vnhappie destenie of your beloued Lady vppon an Euening when the S●●ne had almost lodged in the West to walke without the wals of Couentrie to take the pleasures of the sweet fields and flowring meadowes which Flora had beautefied in a Sommers liuerie but as she walked vp and downe sometimes taking pleasure to heare the mellodie of chirping Birdes how they strained their siluer notes other times taking delight to sée howe nature had couered both hilles and dales with sundrie sortes of Flowers then walking to sée the Christal running Riuers the murmuring Musicke of whose streames excéeded the rest for pleasure But she kinde Ladie delighting her selfe by the Riuers side a sodaine and strange alteration troubled her minde for the Cha●ne of gold that shée did weare about her necke presently chaunged colour from a yellow burnisht brightnes to a dimme palenes her Kinges flew from her fingers and from her nose fell three dro●s of blood whereat her hart began to throb her eares to glow and euerie ioynt to tremble with feare This strange accident caused her spéedilie to haste homeward but by the way she met the noble Earle of Couentrie walking at that time to take the pleasure of the Eueninges Ayre with such a traine of worthie Gentlemen as though he had béene the greatest Piere in all England whose sight when shee behelde a farre off her heart beg●nne to misgiue thinking that Fort●ne had alotted th●se Gentlemen to pro●●ar her some iniurie● 〈…〉 vppon her cheekes feare had set a vermillion 〈◊〉 whereby ●er beautie grew admirable which when the Earle beheld hee was rauished therewith and déemed her the excellents creature that euer nature had framed their méeting was ●●lent shee shewed the h●militie of a 〈◊〉 Lady 〈…〉 ●he curtesie of a kinde Gentleman shee departed homeward●● and 〈◊〉 into the 〈…〉 thinking all danger past but h●●●actised in his mind her vtter 〈◊〉 downefall for the dart of loue had shot from her beauteous chéekes into his heart not true loue but lust so that nothing might quench his desir● but the conquest of her chastetie such ext●eame passion bewitched his minde that hee caused hys s●●uants eu●ry one to depart and then like a discontented man he wandred vp and downe the ●●eldes beating in hys minde a thousand sundrie waies how to obtaine hys desire for without he inioyed her loue he was likelie to liue in endles languishment but ●t last he●●ighed out this passion of loue O you immortall powers why haue you transported her from an earthly Lady to a heauenly Angell Sabra is no worldly creature but a diuine substance her beautie is a staine vnto the Queene of loue and her countenance of more ma●e●●ie than Iunos grace her twinckling eyes that gliste● like to flaming starres and her beaut●ous chéekes more pleasant than Roses dipt in milke hath p●erst my hart with the prickes of loue and her loue I will enioy or loose my life O but there is a barre which thwartes kinde affections and hinders my desires Saint George I meane her true and lawfull husband the honour of whose bed she will not violate for all the Kingdomes in the world Tush faint harted foole that I am Sabra is b●autefull and therefore to be tempted shée is wise and therefore easie to bee woone Her husband he is sporting in the fields of Mars then why may not shée take pleasure in the Chamber of Venus I 〈…〉 many flattering glose● many kind spéeches many 〈…〉 but I will croppe that budde which but to taste I would giue my whole 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 I will tell her saint George is a wandere● and one that neuer will returne where as I am a mighty Piere in England and 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 acc●mplish whatso ●uer shée desiers 〈…〉 this lustf●ll 〈◊〉 vsed to flatter himselfe