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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

ioyfull deliuerie of his Lady and a comfort of a So●ne but his wished ioy was turned into a lasting sorrow for hee founde not onely his Lady dismembred a● her wombe but his yong Sonne wanting without 〈…〉 of his abode which wofull spectakle berea●●d 〈◊〉 of his wi●● that for a time hee stood s●ncele● like weeping N●obe but a● l●st brake into these bitter e●clamations O heau●n● why couer you not earth with euerlasting night or why doe these accursed eye● b●hold the sunne O that the wo●s of Oedipus might end my da●es or like an exile ioy in banishment where I may warble forth my sorrowes to the whispering woods tha● senceles tr●●s may record my losse vn●ame● beasts grieue at my want What monster hath ber●aud● me of my Childe or what Tyrant hath béene glutted with his Tragedie ● that the winde would be a messenger and bring me happie newes of his abode if hee bee drenched in the déepest Seas ●●ether will I diue to fetch him 〈◊〉 hee bee hidden in the 〈…〉 earth th●ther will I digge to se● my sonn● or if he like a scathered foule lye houering in the ayre yet thether will I flie and imbrace him that neuer 〈◊〉 eyes behold● But why doe I thunder foorth my excla●ations thus in 〈◊〉 when neyther heauen nor earth nor seas nor 〈…〉 heauen in earth nor seas will leud mee comfort for 〈…〉 couerie Thus complayned he many mon●hs for the los●● of his sonne and sent messengers into euery C●rcuite of the Land but no man pro●●e so fortunate as to returne him happie tydings He then b●eing frustrate of all good hopes stored himselfe with Iewels and so intended to trauaile the wide world eyther to speed in his iournie or to leaue his bones in some forraine region T●ns leauing his natiue Countrie wandred from place to place till the hair●s of his head were growne as white as siluer and his beard like to the thistle downe but at l●st he ended his trauaile in Bohemia where what for age and excessiue griefe laide him selfe downe vnder a ruinate Monasterie wall dyed the Commons of that countrie hauing knowledge of his name by a Iewel he wore in his bosome ingraued it in Marble stone right ouer his sepulchre where we leaue him sleeping in peace and returne to his sonne remayning with Kalyb the Lady of the woods in the inchaunted Caue Now twice seauen yeares were fully finished since Kalyb first had in kéeping the Noble Knight Saint George of England whose minde many times thirsted after honorable aduentures and often attempted to set him selfe at libertie but the f●ll inchantresse tendring him as the apple of her eye appointed twelue sturdy Satiers to attend his person so that neyther force nor pollicie could further hys intent shee kept him not to triumph in his Tragedie nor to spend his d●yes in slauerie but féeding his fancie with all the delightes and pleasures that Arte or Nature could 〈◊〉 For in him she fixed her chiefest felicitie and luste● after his be●●tie But he séeking to aduance his name by Martiall Discipline and Knightly attempts vtterly refused her preffered curtesies and highly disdainde to affect so wicked a creature who seeing her loue bestowed in vaine vpon a time beeing in the secretst corner of her Caue began 〈…〉 him in this manner ●hou knowest Sir Knight how worthily I haue deserued thy Loue and how for thy sake I haue kept my Uirginity vnstainde yet thou more cruell than the Tigers bréed in Libia reiect●th me Deare Knight fulfill my desiers and at thy pleasure my charmes shall practise woondrous thinges as to mooue the heauens to rayne a shower of stones vpon thy enemies to conuert the Sunne to f●re the Moone to blood or make a desolation of the whole world The Noble Knight Saint George considered in his mind that Loue would make the wisest blind Therefore by her faire promises he hoped to obtaine his liberty the which moou●e him to make her this answers Most wise and learned Kalyb the woonder of the world I condiscend to all thy desiers vpon this condition that I may be sole Proiector and Gouernour of this Inchaunted Caue and that thou discribe to me my birth my name and Parentage wherto she willingly consented and began her discourse in this manner Thou art by byrth said shee son to the Lord Albert high Steward of England and to this day haue I kept 〈…〉 within these solitary woods So taking him by the hand she led him 〈…〉 wherin remayned as prisoners fire of the 〈◊〉 k●●ghts in the world These are sayd she six of the ●orthiest 〈◊〉 of Christendome the first is Sain● Dennis of France the second Saint Iames of Spaine the third Saint A●ho●ie of Italie the fourth Saint Andrew 〈◊〉 ●cotland 〈◊〉 Pattricke of Ireland the sixt Saint Dauid of Wales 〈◊〉 of thou art borne to bee the 〈◊〉 and thy 〈◊〉 Sa●●t George of England for so thou shalt bee 〈…〉 to come Then leading hym a 〈◊〉 further she brou●●t him into a large faire 〈◊〉 whe●● s●ood seauen of the 〈◊〉 Stéedes that ●uer the world behold ●ixe of these sayd shée belong to the sixe Champions and the seauenth will bestowe on thée whose name is Ba●ard likewise shee lead him to another roome where hung the richest Armour that ●uer eye beheld so choosing out the strongest Cor●let 〈◊〉 Armorie shee with her owne handes buckled it on hys brest laced on hys Hel●ne and attyred him with rich Caparison then fetching forth a mighty ●a●chion shée put it likewise in hys hand now sayd shée art thou Armed in richer furniture than was Ninus the first Monarke of the worlde thy stéed is of such force and inuincible power that whilst thou art mounted on hys backe there can be no Knight in all the world so hardy as to conquere thée Thy Armour of the purest Lidian stéele that neyther weapon can pearce nor Battail axe bruse thy sword which is called Ascalon is framed of such excellent mettle by the curious workmanship of the Ciclops that it will seperate and cut the hardest ●lint and how in sunder the strongest stéele for in the pummell lies such pretious vertue that neyther treason witchcrafts nor any violence can bee proffered thée so long as thou wearest it Thus the lustfull Kalyb béeing so blinded in her owne conceit that she not only bestowed the riches of her Caue vpon him but gaue him power and authoritie through a siluer wand which shee put in his hand to worke her owne destin●tion for comming by a huge great rocke of stone this valiant minded Knight stroke his charming r●d thereon whereat it opened and sh●wed apparantly before his eyes a number of sucking Babes which the Inchauntress● had mirthered by her witchcrafts and sorceries O said she this is ● place of horror where nought is heard but scrikes and 〈◊〉 grones of dead mens soules but if thy eares can ind●re● heare them and thy eyes behold them I wil lead the 〈◊〉 So

tumbling themselues against the warme Sunne and his thrée prettie babes sucking from their wombes their most vnkindly milke which spectackle so incouraged the Champion that without further aduisement with his single sword he assayled at one time the thrée Monsters but so furiously they pursued him that he little preuailed and being almost breathlesse was forced to leape into an Oringe trée else had hee béene buried in theyr mercilesse bowels but when the thrée wilde beasts perceiued him aboue theyr reaches and that by no meanes they could come néere him with theyr wrathfull iawes they so rent and tore the roote of the trée that if by pollicie hee had not preuented them the trée had béene puld in pieces for at that time it was so full of ripe Oringes and so ouerloden that the branches séemed to bend and the boughes to breake of which frute he cast such abundance downe to the beastes whereby they restrained theyr furies and fedde so fast thereon that in short time they grew drunke and quite ouercome with a dead and heauy sléepe this good and happy fortune caused S. George nimbly to leape from the trée and with his kéene edged sword deliuered theyr monstrous heades from theyr bodies the which being done he went to his children lying comfortlesse vppon a mossy banke who so pleasantly smiled in his face that they made him greatly to reioyce and to receiue as great pleasure in theyr sights as though hee had béene honoured with the Conquests of Caesar or the Royalty of Alexander therefore after he had giuen them his blessing he tooke them vp in his Armes and spake these wordes following Come come my pretty Babes your safe deliueries from these inhumane Monsters will adde long life vnto your mother and hath preserude your father from a desperate death from henceforth let heauen be your guides and send you as happy fortunes as Remus and Romulus the first founders of imperious Rome which in theyr infancies were nurced with the milke of a rauenous Wolfe and as prosperous in your aduentures as was that Persian Potentate which fed vppon the milke of a Bitch At the ende of which spéeches he approached the Cabbinet where he left his Lady mourning for the losse of her children but at his returne he found her almost without sence or moouing being not able to giue him a ioyfull welcome whereat hee fell into this extreame passion of sorrow O fortune fortune quoth hee how many griefes heapest thou vppon my heade wilt thou néedes inioyne me to an endles sorrow Sée Sabra see I haue redéemed our sonnes and freed them from the Tygers bloody iaws whose wrathfull countenance did threaten death Which comfortable speeches caused her presently to reuiue and to take the silly Infants in her Armes laying them sweetly vpon her yuorie bosome at which they seemed to smile as ●●easantly as Cupid vpon the lappe of Dido when Aeneas sported in the C●u●t of Carthage the kinde imbraces louing spéeches and ioyfull conference that past betwixt the Champion and his Lady were now too long to be discoursed But to be short they remayned in the wildernesse without fu●ther disturbance either of wilde beasts or other accident till Sabra had recouered hir Child-bed sicknes and then beeing conducted b● a happie starre they returned backe the readie way to Christendome where after some few dayes trauaile they ariued in the Bohemian Court where the King of that Countrie 〈◊〉 two other bordering Princes most Royally Christned 〈◊〉 Children The eldest they named Guy the second Alexa●der and the third Dauid the which being performed and the Triumphes ended which in most sumpteous manner continued for the space of one month then the Bohemian King for the great loue hee bare vnto S. George prouided most honourably for his childrens bringing vp First he appoynted thrée seuerall Embassadours with all things necessary for so Princely a charge to conduct the thrée Infants to thrée seuerall Countries the first and eldest whose fortune was to be a souldier he sent to the imperiall Citty of Rome being then the wonder of the world for Martiall discipline there by the Emperour to bee trayned vp The seconde whose fortune was to bee a Courtly Prince hee sent to the rich and plentifull Country of England being the pride of Christendome for all delightfull pleasures The third and last whose fortune was to prooue a Scholler he sent into Germany to the Uniuersity of Wittenberge beeing thought at that time to bee the excellenst place of learning that remayned throughout the whole world Thus were saint Georges Children prouided for by the Bohemian King For when the Embassadours were in a readinesse the ships for theyr passage furnished and their attendance appoynted saint George in the company of his Lady the King of Bohemia with his Quéene and a trayne of Lords gentlemen and Ladyes conducted them to shipbord where the winde serued them so prosperously that in short time they bid adew to the shore and sayled chearefully away But as saint George returned backe to the Bohemian Court it was his chaunce to come by an olde ruinated Monastery vnder whose walles in former time his Father was buried the which he knewe by certaine verses that was carued in stone ouer his graue by the Commons of the Country as you may reade before in the beginning of this History Ouer the same he requested of the King that hée might erect a stately Monument that the remembra●ce of his name might liue for euer and not be buried in the graue of obscurity To which reasonable demaund the King most willingly consented and in all hast gaue speciall commandement that the cunningest Architectors that remayned within his Dominion should forthwith be sent for and withall gaue a tun of gold forth of his owne treasury towards the performance thereof The sodaine report of this memorable déede being bruted abroade caused workemen to come from euery place of their owne accord with such willingnes that they in short time finished it The foundation of the Toombe was of the purest Marble whereon was ingrauen the frame of the earth and how the watry Ocean was deuided with woods groues hilles and dales so liuely portrayed that it was a wonder to behold the props and Pinacles of Allablaster beset with knobs of Iasper stone the sides and Pillers of the clearest Iette vpon the topp stoode foure golden Lions holding vp as it were an Elemen● therein was curiously contriued the golden Sunne and Moone how the heauens haue vsuall courses with many other excellent thinges wrought both in gold and siluer which for this time I omit because I am forced at large to discouer the Princely procéedings of saint George who after the Monument was finished he with his Lady most humbly tooke their leaue of the King thanking him for his loue kindnes and curtesie and so departed towards Egypt and Persia of whose aduentures you shall heare more in this Chapter following CHAP. XVIII How Saint George with his Ladie ariued in Egipt Of their Royall entertainements to the Cittie of Graund Cayer And also how Sabra was Crowned Queene of Egipt MAny straunge accidents and dangerous aduentures saint George with his Lady passed before they ariued within the territories of Egipt that I want memorie to relate them and A●te to discribe them But at last when fortune smiled which before had long time crossed their intents with her inconstant chaunces and had cast them happilie vpon the Egiptian shore being the nurse and mother of Sabraes first creation The twelue Pieres with whome saint George before time had committed the guiding of the Land and kéeping of his Crowne as you heard before discou●sed now met him and his Ladie at the Sea side most richly mounted vppon their costlie trapped Stéedes and willingly surrendred vp his Scepter Crowne and Regiment and after in companie of manie Princelie Estates both of Dukes Earles Lordes Knights Royall Gentlemen They attended th●m to the rich Cittie of Graund Caier being then vnder the subiection of the Egiptian Monarchie and the greatest Cittie in the world For it was in breadth and compasse full threescore miles and had by iust account within the walles twelue thousande Churches besides Abbies Priories and houses of Religion

shall be no earth the sea no sea nor the heauen no heauen Thinkest thou now proud Christian by thy threatned tormentes to make mee forget my creator and beléeue in thy false God which was but the sonne of a Carpenter and bacely borne vnder an Oxe stall No no accursed Christians you ofspringes of Cayne you generations of Iesmaell you séede of Uipers and accursed through the world looke for a spéedie shower of vengeance to raine from heauen vppon your wicked Nations your bloodie practises hath pearst the Battlements of Ioue and your tyrranies beaten open the ga●es of mightie Mahomet who hath prouided whips of burning wier to scourge you for your cruelties proffered against his blessed worshippers and now with this deadlie curse I bid you all farewell the plagues of Egipt light vpon your kingdomes the curse of Cayne vpon your children the famine of Ierusalem vpon your friends and the miserie of Oedipus vppon yourselues This wicked resolution and balefull curse béeing no sooner ended by the desperate minded Almidor but the impatience of saint George was so highly mooued that he gaue present commandement to the appointed Executioners to cast him into the boyling cauldron which incontinentlie they performed to the terror of all the beholders to behold this wofulll spectakle the Battlements of Temples we●e so thronged with people the houses couered with women children and the stréetes filled with Armed Souldiers that it was a woonder to beholde amongst which multitudes there were some perticular persons that at the sight of Almidors death fell downe and broake their neckes But the generall number as well of Pagans as Christians cryed with chearefull voyces Honour and victory followe saint George of England for he hath redéemed Barbary from a miserable seruitude Which ioyfull hearing so delighted the seauen Champions of Christendome that they caused the Conduits to runne with wine the stréets to be beautefied with bonefiers and a sumptuous banquet to be proclaimed through the Citty which after continued for the space of seauen dayes in more magnificent Royaltie than the banquet at Babilon when the Macedonian Monarke returned from the worlds Conquest The Champions liberality procured such faithfull lo●e in the harts of the Moroco Pieres that with a generall consent they chose saint George for theyr lawfull King where after they had inuested him in the Princely seate of the Moroco Potentates they set the Crown vpon his head and after presented him with an imperious Pall which the Kings of Barbary vsually wore vppon their Coronation day protesting to forsake theyr prophane Religion and 〈◊〉 christened in the fayth of Christ. This promised conuertion of the Infidels more delighted the English Champion than to haue the whole worlds honour at commaund for it was the chiefeest poynt of his Knightly oath to aduaunce the faith of Christe and to inlarge the boundes of Christendome after his Coronation was solemlie performed the other six Champions conduct● him to a Princely Pallace where he tooke the true alegance of the Moroco Lordes by plighted oath to bee true to hys Crowne after this he established Christian lawes to the benefit of the whole countrie then he commaunded al the ceremonious rites of Mahomet to be trodden vnder foote the true Gospell of Christ to be preached likewise he caused all that did remaine in Barberie to be Christned in the new faith But these obseruations continued but a time as shall hereafter shall be discoursed at large For fame not intending to let the worthie Champions long to remaine in the idle bowers of peace but summoned them to perseuer in their Noble atchiuements and t● muster vp a new their souldiers whose Armour canckered ease had almost staind with rust therefore saint George committed the gouernment of hys countrie to foure of the principall Peares of Moroco and martched towardes the Countrie of Egipt where liued trecherous Ptolomie the Father of hys beloued Lady Sabra whome hee had left in the Kingdome of England In which iournie and happie ariuall in Egipt w● will leaue the seauen Champions for a time and speake of the faithles Infidels in Barberie after the departure of the Christians whose former Honours they slightly regarded For no sooner had saint George with hys martiall Troupes bidden their countrie adue but the faithles Moores reconciled themselues to their former Gods and purposed a spéedie reuenge for the death of Almidor against all Christians that remained within the limmets of that Heathen Nation For there were many souldiers wounded in the late battaile Likewise a number oppressed with sicknes had the Christian Champions left behinde for their better recoueries vppon whome the barberous Moores committed their first tyrranie for they caused the distressed souldiers to be drawen vpon ●lids to the outermost part of the Cittie and there put them into a large and old Monestarie which they presently set on fire and most inhumanely burned the Christian souldiers and after conuerted the place into a filthie leastall many women and succourles children they dragged vp and downe the stréetes till their braines were dasht against the stones and the blood had couered the earth with a purple hue Many other cruelties were committed by the wicked Infidels against the distressed Christians which I ●urpose to pa●●e ouer and wholie discourse of the wofull and bloody murther of an English Marchant and hys wife in the same Cittie of Tripolie the report whereof may force the merciles Tygers to relent and those eyes to shed a spring of teares that neuer wept before The bloodie minded Negars violating both oath and promise before plighted to saint George by violence set vppon the Marchants house where first they made a massaker of his seruants and before hys face cast their dead bodies to hunger starued Dogges then comming to the Marchant they bound him fast with hempen cordes to the strongest post in his house and after tooke hys children béeing seauen of the goodliest boyes that euer nature ●●amed and likewise tied round about him Then one of the Moores béeing crueller than the rest proffered to deflowre the Marchants wife before hys face but she in chastetie like Camma chose rather an honourable death than an infamous life spit in the Negars face and most bitterly reuiled him yéelding neyther to hys force nor hys bloodie threates but snatching a knife from hys girdle vowed to sheath it in her bosome before she would loose that precious Gemme of honour that once beeing gone cannot bee recouered for all the worldes treasure This resolution of the English Marchants wife caused the sterne Negars to excéede in crueltie but the principall of that wicked companie béeing a bloody and merciles Tyrant stabbed one of the sillie Children before the mothers face Now stubborne Dame quoth he wilt thou yéeld to my desires and preserue the liues of thy other sixe Children otherwise shalt thou beholde them butchered in the same manner To sell my honour for the liues of my Children replied shee will be an