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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

the former beauty and brightnes againe Thus both his sword his horse his Martiall furniture other habilliments of warre bee●ng brought to their first and proper quallities the Noble Champion intended to perseuer and goe forwarde in the aduenture in cutting downe the vnhappie Mulberie trée So taking his sworde which was of the purest Spanish stéele gaue such a stroake at the roote therof that at one blow he cut it quite in sunder wherout presently flashed such a migh●ie flame of fire that the mane from his horse necke was burned and likewise the haire of his owne head had beene fiered if hys Helmet had not preserued him for no sooner was the flame extinguished but there ascended from the hollow trée a naked Uirgin in shape like Daphnie which Apollo turnde to Bay fairer then Pigmalions Iuorie Image or the Northen driuen snow her eyes more clearer than the I●●e mountaines her cheekes like Roses dipt in milke her lips more louelier than the Turkish 〈◊〉 her Alablaster teeth like Indian Pearles her séemely necke an Iuorie Tower her daintie breasts a Palladice where milke white Doues may fit and ●●ng the rest of natures liniaments a staine to Iuno Queene of heauen at whose most excellent beautie this valiant vndaunted Champion more admired then at her woonderfull transformation For his eyes were so rauished with such excéeding pleasure that his tongue could indure no longer silent but was forced to vnfold the secrets of his heart and in these tearmes began to vtter hir minde Thou most diuine and singuler ornament of nature said hee fairer than the feathers of the siluer Swannes that swim vpon Maeanders Christall streame ● farre more beautifull than Auroraes morning countenance to thee the fairest of all f●●ers most humblie therefore to thy beautie doe I onelie submit my affections Also I sweare by the Honour of my Knighthood and ●y the loue of my Countrie Fraunce which vow I will not violate for all the Treasures of rich Ameria nor the golden Mines of higher India Whether thou béest an Angell descended from the Heauens or a Furie ascended from the dominions of Proserpine whether thou béest some Fayrie or siluaine Nimph which inhabits in these fatall woodes or els an earthly creature for thy sin transformed into this Mulberie trée I may not iudge Therefore swéete Saint in whome my heart must pay his deuotion vnfold to me thy Birth Parentage and ●am● that I may the bolder pr●sume vppon thy curtesies At which demaunde this newe borne Uirgin with a shamefaste looke modest gesture sober grace and blushing countenance ●●gan thus to reply Sir Knight by whome my life my loue and fortunes are to be comm●nded and by whome my humane shape naturall forme is recouered First know thou Magnanimious Champion that I am by birth the King of Thessalies Daughter and my name was called for my beauty proude Eglantine For which contemptuous pride I was transformed into this Mulberie tree in which greene substance I haue continued f●urtéene yeares as for my loue thou haste deserued it before all other Knights in the world and to thée doo I plight that true promise before the Omnipotent Iudge● of all thinges before that secret promise shall be infringed the S●n shal cease to shine by day the M●●ne by night all the Pl●nets forsake their proper natares At which wordes the Champion gaue her the courtesie of his countrie and sealed her promises with a louing kisse After which the beautifull Eglantine beeing ashamed of her nakednes weaued her such a garment of 〈◊〉 rushes inter●i●ed with such variet● of sundr● flowers that it surpassed for workmanship the Indian maidens curious webs her crisped lockes of haire continued still of the colour of the Mulberie tree whereby shée séemde like Flora in her greatest royaltie when the f●elds were be deckt with natures tapestrie After which she washed her Lillie handes and Rosy coloured face in the dewes of heauen which she gathered frō a bed of violets Thus in her gréene vestments shee intendes in companie of her true Louer the valiant Knight of Fraunce to take her iournie to her Fathers Court beeing as then the King of that countrie where after some fewe daye● trauaile they arriued safely in the Court of Thessalie whose welcomes were to their owne wishes their entertainements most Honourable for no sooner did the King behold his Daughters safe approch of whose strange transformation he was euer ignorant fell into such a dead sound through the excéeding ioy of her presence that for a time his sences were without vitall moouing and his hart imbraced so kindly her dainty body and proffered such curtesie to the straunge Knight that Saint Dennis accounted him the mirrour of all c●rtesie and the patterne of true Nobilitie After the Champion was vnarmed his stifle and weary limbes were bathed in new milke and white wines he was conuaied to a swéet smelling fire made of Ginniper and the faire Eglantine conducted by the Maidens of Honour to a priuate chamber where she was disrobed of her Siluaine attire apparriled in a Pall purple silke In which Court of Thessalie we will leaue this our Champion of Fraunce with his Ladie and goe forward in the discourses of the other Champions discouering what aduentures hapned to them during the time o● s●auen yeares But first how● Saint Iames the Champion of Spaine fell in loue with a faire Iew and how for her sake he continued seauen yeares dumb and after if Apollo graunt my Muse the gift of Scolorisme and dip my pen in the inke of Arte I will not rest my wearie hand till I haue explainde the Honourable procéedings of the Knights of England Fraunce Spaine Italie Scotland Wales and Ierland to the Honour of Christendome and the dishonour of all the professed enemies of Christ. CHAP. V. How Saint 〈◊〉 the Champion of Spaine continued seauen yeares dumb for the loue of a faire Iew and howe he should haue beene shot to death by the Maidens of Ierusalem with other thinges which chaunced in his trauailes NOw must my Muse speake of the strange aduentures of Saint Iames of Spaine the third Champion and renow●ed Knight of Christendome and what hapned vnto him in his seauen yeares trauailes through manie a straunge countrie both by Sea and land where hys Honourable actes were so dangerous and full of wonder that I want memorie to expresse and Arte to subscribe also I am forced for breuities sake to passe ouer his fea●efull and dangerous battaile with the burning Drake vpon the flaming mount in Sicill which terrible Combat continued for the space of seauen dayes and seauen nights Likewise omitting his trauell in Capadocia thorough a wildernes of Monsters with his passage ouer the red seas where his ship was deuoured with wormes his Marriners drowned and himselfe his horse and furniture safely brought to land by seanymphs and Meremaids where af●er his long trauels passed perrils and dangerous tempests amongst the boysterous billowes of the

an Inorie Charriot guarded by twelue coleblacke Negars wherein hys beloued Lady and Mistrsse Sabra sate inuested vppon a siluer Globe to beholde the Heroicall Encounters of her most Noble and Magnanimious ●hampion saint George of England his Tent was as white as the Swannes feathers glistring against the Sun supported by foure ●eyntles Elephants framed of the purest brasse about his Helmet he tied a wreath of Uirgins haire where hung his Ladies gloue which he wor●●● maintaine her excellent gifts of nature to excéede al 〈◊〉 on the earth These costlie habilliments rauished the beholders with such vnspeakeable pleasure that they stood gazing at hys furniture not able to withdrawe their eyes from so heauenlie a sigh● But when they beheld his victorious Encounters against the Graecian Knightes they supposed him to be the 〈◊〉 tamer of that seauen hea●ed monster that clambred 〈◊〉 the elements offring to pull Iupiter from hys throne His ●●éede neuer gaue Encounter with any Knight but hee tumbled horse and man to the ground where they lay for a time bereaft of sence The Turnament endured for that day from the Suns rising till the cole blacke Euenings Star appeared in which time he conquered fiue hundred of the hardiest Knights then liuing in Asia and shiuered a thousand Launces to the woonderfull admiration of the beholders Thus were the seauen dayes brought to ende by the seauen worthy Champions of Christendome in rewarde of whose Noble atchieuements the Graecian Emperour being a man that highly fauoured knightly procéedinges gaue them a golden trée with seauen branches to be deuided equally amongst them Which Honourable Prize they conuayed to saint Georges Pauilion where in deuiding the braunches the seauen Champions discouered themselues each to other and by what good fortune they ariued in the Graecian Court whose long wished sights so reioyced theyr harts whereby they accounted that happy day of méeting the ioyfullest day that euer they beh●ld But now after the Turnaments were fully ended the Knights res●ed themselues some few dayes recouering their wonted agillitie of body they fell to a new exercise of pleasure not appearing in glistring Armour before the Tilt nor following the loud sounding Drums siluer Trumpets but spending away the time in Courtly daunces amongst their beloued Ladies and Mistress●s in more Royaltie than the Phrigian knights wh●n they presented the Paragon of Asia with an Inchanted ●aske There wanted no inspiring Musicke to delight their eares no heauenly Sonets to rauish their sences nor no curious daunces to please their eyes Sabra she was the Mistresse of the Reuels who gra●●e the whole Court with her excellent beautie which séemed to excéede the rest of the Ladies as farre as the M●●ne surpasseth her attending Stars in a frostie night when shee daunst shee séemde like Thetis tripping on the siluer sandes with whom the Sun did fall in loue and if shee chaunst to smile the cloudy elements would cleare drop downe heauenly dew as though they mournde for loue There likewise remayned in the Court the six Scythian Uirgins that in former times liued in the shape of Swans which were as beautifull Ladies as euer eye beheld also many other Laidies attended the Empresse in whose companies the seauen Champions daylie delighted sometimes discoursing of amorous conceits other times delighting themselues with swéete tuned Musicke then spending the day in banqueting reuelling dancing such like pastimes not once iniuring their true betrothed Ladies But their Courtly pleasures continued not long for they were sodainely dashed with a present newes of open Warres proclaymed against Christendome which fell out contrarie to the expectations of the Christian Knights There ariued in the Graecian Emperours Pallace a hundred Harrolds of a hundred seuerall Prouinces which proclaimed vtter defiance to all Christiā kingdomes by these words Wee the high and mighty Emperours of Asia and Affrica great commaunders both of land seas proclaime by generall consent of all the Easterne Potentates vtter ruine and destruction to the Kingdomes of Christendome to all those Nations where any Christian Knights are harboured First the Soldan of Persia in reuenge of a bloody slaughter done in hys Pallace by an English Champion Ptolomie the Egiptian King in reuenge of his daughter violently taken away by the sayd knight Almidor the blacke King of Moroco in reuenge of his Quéene likewise taken away by the sayde English Champion The great Gouernour of Thessaly in reuenge of his daughter taken away by a French Knight The King of Ierusalem in reuenge of his daughter taken away by a Spanish Knight The Tartarian Emperour in reuenge of his Sonne the Countie Palatine slaine by the vnhappy hand of the Champion of Wales The Sicillian Monarke in reuenge of hys vaine trauaile after his seauen daughters now in the kéeping of certaine Christian Knights in reuenge of which iniuries all the Kingdomes from the furthest part of Prester Iohns Dominions to the borders of the red Seas hath set downe their handes and seales to bee ayders in this bloodie Warre This Prolamation béeing no sooner ended but the Graecian Emperour likewise consented to their bloody determination and thereupon gaue spéedy commandement to muster vp the greatest strength that Graecia could afforde to ioyne with the Pagans to the vtter ruine and confusion of Christendome which bloody edict or rather inhumane Iudgement pronounced by the accursed Infidels compelled the Christian Champions to a spéedy departure and euerie one to haste into his owne countrie there to prouide for the Pagans entertainment So after due considerations the seauen Champions departed from Graecia in companie of their betrothed Ladies who chose rather to liue in the bosoms of their husbands than in the armes of their misbeléeuing Parents where after some few dayes they ariued in the spacious bay of Portingale in which Hauen they vowed by the Honour of true Knighthood to méete againe within sixe monthes insuing there to conioyne all their Christian Armies into one Legion vpon which plighted resolution the worthie Champions departed one from another Saint George into England Saint Dennis into Fraunce Saint Iames into Spaine Saint Anthonie into Italie Saint Andrew into Scotland Saint Pattrick into Ireland Saint Dauid into Wales whose pleasant bankes they had not beheld in many a yeare before where their entertainments were as Honorable as their harts desired But to speake of the mustring vp of Souldiers in euerie Christian Kingdome and what strength ariued at the appointed time in the bay of Portingale shall be discoursed in the sequell of this Historie and how troublesome warres ouerspread the whole earth where the Heroicall déedes of these Noble Champions shall at large be discribed Also of the ●uerthrow of many Kings and Kingdomes ruines of Townes and Citties and the decay of many flourishing Common weales Likewise of the bloody Tragedies of many vnchristian Princes whereat the heauens will mourne to sée the effusion of blood trickle from the breasts of murthered Infants the heapes of slaughtered Damsels

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

after Almidors Tragedy that hee could scarce make answere againe to the Hermit● wordes But yet brideling hys furie the angry Champion spake in this manner Graue father said he through the trechery of that accursed King I indured seauen yeares imprisonment in Persia where I suffered both hunger cold and extreame misery but if I had my good sword Aaskalon and my trusti● Pa●●ray which I lost in the Egiptian Court where remaines my betrothed Loue the Kinges Daughter of Egipt I would bee reuenged vppon the heade of proude Almidor were his Guard more stronger than the Armie of Xerxes whose multitudes dranke Riuers drie Why said the Hermit Sabra the Kinges Daughter of Egipt is now Quéene of Barbarie and since her Nuptials were solemnely performed in Tripolie are seauen Sommers fullie finished Now by the Honour of my Countrie England replied Saint George the place of my Natiuitie and as I am true Christian Knight these eyes of mine shall neuer close nor this vndaunted hart neuer entertain one thought of peace nor this vnconquered hand receaue one minutes rest vntill I haue obtained a fight of that swéet Princesse for whose sake I haue indured so long imprisonment therefore deare Father bee thus kinde to a trauailer as to exchaunge thy clothing for this my rich furniture and lustie Stéede which I brought from the Soldan of Persia for in the Habit of a Palmer I may enioy the fruition of her sight without suspicion otherwise I must néeds be constrained by violence with my trustie Fauchion to make way into her Princelie Pallace where I knowe shée is attended on most carefully by 〈◊〉 valiant and couragious Champions th●refore curteously deliuer me thy Hermit● gowne and I will 〈…〉 with my Horse and Armour this Boxe of precious Iewels which when the graue Hermi●● behold he humbly thanked the Noble Champion and so with all the spéede they could possiblie ma●e exchaung●● apparrell and in this manner departed The Palmer being glad repaired to his Hermitage with Saint Georges furniture and Saint George in the Palmers apparrell trauailed towards the Cittie of Tripolie who no sooner came neare to the sumptuous buildinges of the Court but he espied a hūdred pore Palmers knéeling at the Gate to whome Saint George spake in this manner not with loftie and Heroicall spe●ches beséeming a Princely Champion but with méeke and humble worde like to an aged Palmer My deare brethren said the Champion for what intent remaine you here or what exspect you from this Honorable Court. Wee abide here answered the Palmers for an 〈◊〉 which the Quéene once a day hath giuen this seauen yeares for the sake of an English Knight named Saint George whome shee affecteth aboue all the Knights in the worlde But when will this be giuen said Saint George In the after-noone replie● the Palmers vntill which time vppon our bended knees wee hourely pray for the good Fortune of that most Noble English Knight which spéeches so highlie pleased the valiant minded Champion Saint George that hee thought euery minute a whole yeare till the Golden 〈◊〉 had past away the middle part of Heauen for it was but newlie risen from Auroraes bed whose light as ●t with a 〈◊〉 radiant blush distained the Easterne skie During which time the most valiant and Magnan●●●ous Champion Saint George of England one while remembring of the extreame miserie hee endured in Persia for her sa●e wherat 〈…〉 many 〈◊〉 teares from 〈◊〉 another 〈◊〉 thinking vpon the tyrible 〈◊〉 a●●ail● he had 〈◊〉 burning Dragon in Egipt where 〈◊〉 redéemed her from the fatall 〈◊〉 of death But at 〈◊〉 it was hys chance to walke about the Court beholding the sumptuous buildings and the curious ingrauen works by the atchiuement of man bestowed vpon the glistering windowes where he board to h●s excéeding pleasure the heauenly voice of hys beloued Sabra descending from a window vpon the West side of the Pallace where she warbled forth this sorrowfull Dittie vpon her Iuorie Lute Dye all desires of ioy and Courtly pleasures Dye all desires of Princely Royaltie Dye all desires of wealth and worldly treasures Dye all desires of stately Maiestie Sith he is gone that pleased most mine eye For whome I wish ten thousand times to dye O that mine eyes might neuer cease to weepe O that my tongue might ouermore complaine O that my soule might in his bosome sleepe For whose sweet sake my heart doth liue in paine In woe I sing with ●●inish teares besp●en● Outworne with griefe ●●●sumde with discontent In time my sig●●s will dim the heauen faire light Which hourely 〈◊〉 from my tormented br●st Except Saint George that noble English Knight With safe returne abandon m● 〈◊〉 Then carefull cryes shall end with deepe annoy Exchaunging wee●●●g teares for smiling ioy Before the face of heauen this vow I make Though vnkinde friends hath wed me to their will And Crownde me Queene 〈…〉 to s●a●e That in despight of them shall 〈◊〉 still Beare wa●es heauen and earth what I haue said For Georges sake I liue and die a maide Which sorrowfull Dittie béeing 〈◊〉 so●ner ended 〈◊〉 she departed the window quite from the hearing of the English Champion that stoode gazing vp to the casements preparing his eares to enterta●●e her sweet● tuned mellody the second time but his expectation was in vaine whereat he grew into more perplexed passions than A●u●as when hee had lost hys beloued Crus● amongst the ●●ruite of the Graecians sometimes wishing the day to vanish in a moment that the houre of hys beneuolence might approch other times comforting his sad cogitations with the remembrance of her true chastetie and long continued constancy for hys sake comparing her loue vnto Thisbes her chaste●●e to Dianaes and her constancie to Penelopes Thus spent he the 〈◊〉 away till he 〈…〉 began to decline to the westerne parts of the earth and the Palmers should reca●e her w●nted beneuolence against which time the English Champion placed himselfe in middest of the Palmers that expected the wished houre of her comming who at the time appointed came to the Pallace 〈…〉 vesture like Poli●●a King Priams D●●ght●● 〈◊〉 she went to sacrifice her haire after 〈…〉 almost 〈…〉 to the colour of siluer thee and 〈…〉 her long 〈…〉 to whose excellent fairenes all the ●adies in the world did sometimes yéelde 〈◊〉 was now stayned with the Pearled dew that trickled downe her chéekes where after the sorrowfull Quéene had iustly numbred the Palmers and with vigilant eies beheld the Princely countenance of saint George her colour beganne to exchange from red to white 〈…〉 white to redde as though the Lilly and the Rose had 〈◊〉 for superiority but yet colouring her cogitations vnder a smooth browe first deliuered her almes to the Palmers then taking saint George aside to whom shée thus kindly began to cou●er Palmer sayde sh●● th●● resemblest 〈…〉 Prince●● 〈◊〉 and curteous behauiour that thrice honoured Champion of England for whose sake I haue daily bestowed my 〈◊〉 for this seauen

yeares his 〈…〉 George his fame I know thou hast heard reported in many ● country to bée the brauest Knight that ●uer buckled steeled He●●●t therefore for his sake will I grace thée with the chiefest honour in this Court In stéede of thy 〈…〉 I will cloth thée in purple sil●e and in stéede at thy ●ban staff● thy hande shall wielde the richest sworde that euer Princely eye behelde to whom the Noble Champion saint George replied in this curteous manner I haue heard quoth he the Princely atchieuements and magnanimious aduentures of that honoured English Knight which you so dearely affect bruted through many a Princes Court and how for the loue of a Lady he hath indured along imprisonment from whence he neuer looketh to returne but to spe●● the remnant of his dayes in lasting misery ● At which wordes the 〈◊〉 let fall from her eyes such a showre of Pearled teares and sent such a number of strained sighes from her grieued hart that her sorrow séemed to excéede the Quéenes of Carthage when sh●● had for euer l●st the sight of her beloued Lorde But the braue minded Champion saint George purposed no longe●● to continue secrete but with his discouery to conuert her sorrowfull meanes to smiling ●oy And so ●●sting off his Palmers weede acknowledged himselfe to the Quéene and therewithall shewed the halfe Ring whereon was ingrauen this Pos●e ardeo affectione which Ring in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as you may reade before they had most equally deuided betwixt them to be kept in remembraunce of their plighted faithes which vnsuspected sight highly pleased the beauteous Sabra and her ioy so excéeded the bounds of reason that she could not speake one word but was constrained through the new conceaued pleasure to breathe a sad sigh or two into the Champions bosome who like a true innobled Knight entertained her with a louing kisse But after these two louers had fullie disco●rsed each to other the secrets of their soules Sabra how shee continued for his loue a pure Uirgin through the secret nature of a golden chaine stéept in Tygers blood the which shee wore seauen times doubled about her Iuorie necke tooke him by the portly han● and led him to her husbands stable where stood hys approued Palfray which shée for seauen yeares had ●ed with her owne handes who no sooner espyed the returne of his master but hee grewe more prouder of his presence than Bucephalus of the Macedonian Monarches when he had most ioyfully returned in triumph from any victorious Conquest Now is the time said the excellent Princesse Sabra that thou mayest seale vp the quittance of our former louest therefore with all conuenient spéed take thy approued Palfray with thy trustie sword Askalon which I will presently deliuer into thy handes and with all celeritie conuay mee from this vnhappy countrie for the King my husband with all his aduenterous Champions are nowe rode forth on hunting whose absence wil ●urther ●ur flight But if thou stay till his returne it is not a hundred of the hardiest Knights in the worlde can beare mee from this accursed Pallace At which worde Saint George hauing a minde gra●●e with all excellent vertues replyed in this manner Thou knowest my diuine Mistresse that for thy lo●e I would indure as many dangers as Iason suffered in the Ile of Calcos so I might at last enioy the pleasures of true Uirginitie But howe canst thou remayne a pure m●ide when thou haste béene a Crowned Quéene for these 〈◊〉 yeares and euerie night haste entertained a King ●nto thy bed If thou findest me not a true mayde in all that thou canst say or doo ●end me backe againe hither vnto my 〈◊〉 whose bed I account more loathsome th●n 〈◊〉 ●f snakes and his fight more ●●inous than the Crocodiles As for the Moroco Cr●wne which by force of 〈◊〉 was set vpon my head I wish that it might be turnd into a blaze of quenchles ●●er so it might not indanger my body and for the name of Quéene I account it a vayne 〈◊〉 for I had rather be thy English Lady than the greatest Empresse in the world At which spéeches saint George willingly condiscended and with all speede purposed to goe into England and therewithall sealed an assurance with as sweete a kisse as Paris gaue to louely Hellena when shée consented to forsake h●r natiue count●y and to trauell from her husband Menelaus into Troy So loosing no time lest delay might breede danger Sabra furnished her selfe with sufficient treasure and spéedily deliuered to saint George his trusty sworde which she had kept seauen yeares for his sake with all the furniture belonging to his approoued Steede who no sooner receaued her pr●ffered gifts which hee accounted dearer than the Asian Monarchy but presently sadled his horse and beautified his strong limbes with rich caparison In the meane time Sabra through fayre spéeches and large premises obtained the good will of an Euenuke that was appoynted for her guard in the Kings absence to accompany them in theyr intended trauailes and to serue as a trusty guide if occasion required which with the Lady stoode ready at the Champions commandement who no sooner had furnished himselfe with sufficient habilliments of warre belonging to so dangerous ● iourney but he pla●●● his beloued Mistris vpon a gentle Palfray which alwaies knéeled downe vntill shée had ascended the saddle And likewise her Euenuke was mounted vpon another Stéede whereon all their rich furniture with costly Iewels and other treasure was borne So these thr●e worthy Personages committed their trauels to the guide of fortune who preserued them from the dangers of pursuing enemies which at the Kinges returne from h●●ting followed amayne to euery Port and Ha●●n that deuided the kingdome of Barbarie from the Confines of Christendome But kind destenie so guided their steps that they trauailed another way contrarie to their e●spectations for when they looked to ariue vpon the Territories of Europe they were cast vppon the fruitfull bankes of Graecia in which Countrie we must tell what hapned to the thrée traua●lers and omit the vaine pursute of the Moroco Knights the wrathfull melancholy of the King and the bruted rumour that was amongst the Commons of the Quéenes departure who caused the L●rum-belles to bée rung out and the Beacons to be set on fire as though the enemie had entred their Countrie But nowe Melpomine thou Tragicke Sister of the Muses report what vnluckie cro●●●s hapned to these three trauailers in the Con●●nes of Graecia and howe theyr smiling C●m●die was by ill fortune turned into a wéepin● Tragedie For when they had iournied some three or four● Leagues ouer many a loftieh●ll they approached into a mightie and fearefull Wildernes through which the waies séemed so long and the 〈…〉 excéedingly glo●ed that Sabra what for wearines in trauaile and the extreame heate of the day was constrained to res● vnder the shelter of a mightie Oake whose braunches had not béene lopt in many a yeare where shee