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A04556	The second part of the famous history of the seauen champions of Christendome Likevvise shevving the princely provvesse of Saint Georges three sonnes, the liuely sparke of nobilitie. VVith many other memorial atchiuements worthy the golden spurres of knighthood.; Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome. Part 2	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1597 (1597)	STC 14678; ESTC S101376	113,461	208

cloddes of earth and turffes of grasse seauen yeares we haue continued in great extreamitie sustaining our hungers with the fruites of trées and quenching our thirstes with the dewe of heauen that falleth nightly vpon fragrant flowers héere in stéede of Princely attyre imbrothered garments and damaske vestures we haue béene constrained to cladde our selues in flowers the which we haue cunningly wouen vp together Héere insteade of musicke that had wont each morning to delight our eares we haue the whistling windes resounding in the woods our clockes to tell the minutes of the wandring nights are snakes and toades that sléep in rootes of rotten trées our cannopeies to couer vs are not wrought of Median silke the which the Indian Uirgins weaue vppon their siluer loombes but the sable cloudes of heauen when as the chéerefull day hath clos'd her christall windows ●p Thus in this manner continued wee in this soletary wildernes making both birds and beastes our chiefe companions till these mercilesse Moores whose hateful be●sts you haue made like watry fountaines to water the parched earth with streames of blood who came into our cell or simple cabinet thinking to haue found some store of treasure But casting their gazing eyes vpon my beutie they were presently inchaunted with a lustfull desire onely to crop the swéete bud of my virginitie Then with a furious and dismall countenaunce more blacke than than the sable garments of sad Melpomine when wyth her strawberie quill she writes of bloodie tragedies or with a heart more crueller than was Neroes the tyrannous Romane Emperour when he beheld the entrailes of his naturall Mother layde open by his inhumane and mercilesse commaundement or when he stood vpon the highest toppe of a mightie mountayne to sée that famous and Imperiall Cittie of Roome set on fire by the remorselesse handes of his vnrelenting Ministers that added vnhallowed flames to his vnholie furie These mercilesse and wicked minded Negroes with violent handes tooke my aged Father and most cruellye bound him to the blasted bodie of a wythered oake standing before the entrie of his Cell where neither the reuerent honor of his siluer haires that glistered like the frozen ysicles vpon the Northerne Mountaines nor the strayned sighes of his breast wherein the pledge of wisedome was inthronized nor all my teares or exclamations could anie whit abate their cruelties but like grim dogs of Barbarie they left my Father fast bound vnto the trée and like egregious vipers tooke me by the tramells of my golden haire and dragd me like a silly Lambe vnto this slaughtering place intending to satisfie their lustes with the flower of my chastitie Here I made my humble supplication to the Maiestye of Heauen to bee reuenged vppon their cruelties I reported to them the rewards of bloodie rauishments by the example of Tereus that lustfull King of Thrace and hys furious Wife that in reuenge of her Sisters rauishment caused her Husband to eate the flesh of his owne Sonne Likewise to preserue my vndefiled honor I told them that for the Rape of Lucrece the Romane Matron Tarquinius and his name was for euer banished out of Rome with manie other examples like the Nightingale whose doleful tunes as yet recordeth nothing but rape and murther Yet neither the frownes of heauen nor the terrible threates of hell could mollifie their bloodie mindes but they protested to perseuer in that wickednes vowd that if all the leaues of the Trées that grew within the Wood were turned into Indian Pearle made as wealthie as the golden Streames of pactolus where Mydas washt his golden Wish away yet shuld they not redéeme my chastitie from the staine of their insatiable and lustfull desires This being said they bound mee with the tramells of myne owne haire to this Orenge trée and at the very instant they proffered to defile my vnspotted bodie but by the mercifull working of God you happily approached not only redéemed me from their tyrannous desires but quit the world from thrée of the wickedest creatures that euer nature framed For which most noble and inuincible Knights if euer Uirgins prayers may obtaine fauor at the Maiestie of Heauen humbly will I make my supplications that you may proue as valiant champions as euer put on helmet and that your fames may ring to euerie Princes eare as far as bright Hiperion showes hys golden face This tragicall tale was no sooner ended but the thrée Knights whose remorcefull hearts sobbed with sighes imbraced the sorrowfull Maiden betwixt their armes earnestlye requested her to conduct them vnto the place whereas she left her father bound vnto the withered oke To which shee willingly consented and thanked them highly for their kindnes but before they approched to the olde mans presence what for the griefe of his banishment and the violent vsage of his Daughter he was forced to yéeld vp his miserable life to the mercies of vnauoydable death When Saint Georges valiant Sonnes in companie of this sorrowful Maiden came to the trée and contrarie to their expectations found her Father cold and stiffe both deuoyd of sense and féeling also finding his hands face couered with greene mosse which they supposed to be done by the Roben red-breast and other little birds who naturally couer the bare parts of anie bodie which they finde dead in the 〈◊〉 they fell into a new confused extremitie of griefe But especially his Daughter séeming to haue lost all ioy and comfort in this World made both heauen earth to resound with her excéeding lamentations and mourned without comfort like wéeping Niobe that was turned into a rocke of stone her griefe so abounded for the losse of her children but when the thrée young Knights perceiued the comfortless sorrow of the Uirgin and how she had vowd neuer to depart from those solitary groues but to spend the remnant of her daies in company of his deadly body they curteously assisted her to burie him vnder a ches-nut trée where they left her continually bathing his senceles graue with her teares and returned backe to their horses where they left them at the entry of the Forrest tied vnto a lofty pine so departed on their Iorney There we will leaue them for a time and speak of the seauen Champions of Christendome that were gone on Pilgrimage to the Cittie of Ierusalem and what strange aduentures happened to them in their trauels CHA. IIII. Of the Aduenture of the Golden Fountaine in Damasco how sixe of the Christian Champions were taken prisoners by a mightie Giant and after how they were deliuered by Saint George and also how he redeemed fourteene Iewes out of prison with diuers other strange accidents that happened LET vs now speake of the fauourable clemencie that smiling Fortune shewd to y e Christian Champions in their trauells to Ierusalem For after they were departed from England and had iourneied in their Pilgrimes attire thorough manie strange Countreys at last they arriued vpon the Confines of Damasco

Knights that were present at this vnhappie mischance so great it was that the walles of the Monasterie ecchoed and their pittifull shrikes ascended to the heauens But none was more gréened in mind than the afflicted English Champion who like a man distraught of sense in great furie rushed amongst the people throwing them downe on euerie side till he ascended vpon the scaffold approaching the dead bodie of Lucina hee tooke her vp in his armes and with a sorrowfull and passionate voyce he said O my beloued ioy and late my only hearts delight is this the Sacrifice wherein through thy desperatenes thou hast deceiued me who loued thée more than my selfe is this the respite that thou requiredst for seauen dayes wherein thou hast concluded thy own death and my vtter confusion Oh noble Lucina and my beloued Ladie if this were thy intent why didst not thou first sacrifice mee thy Seruant and Loue wholly subiected vnto thy deuine beautie Woe be vnto mee and woe bee vnto my vnhappie enterprise for by it is she lost who was made souereigne Ladie of my heart Oh Diana accursed by this chaunce because thou hast consented to so bloodie a tragedie by the eternall powers of heauen that neuer more thou shalt be worshipped but in euerie Countrey where the English Champion commeth Lucina in thy stead shall be adored For euermore will he séek to diminish thy name and blot it from the golroll of heauen yea and vtterly extinguish it in eternitie so that there shall neuer more memorie remaine of thée for this thy bloodie Tyrannie in suffering so lamentable a Sacrifice No sooner had he deliuered these speaches but incensed with furie he drew out his sword and parted the image of Diana in two péeces protesting to ruinate the Monasterie within whose walls the deuice of this bloodie Sacrifice was concluded The sorrow and extreame gréefe of the Romane Emperour so excéeded for the murther of his Daughter that he fell to the c●rth in a senselesse sw●und and was carried halfe dead with gréefe by some of his knights home to his Pallace where he remained spéechles by the space of thirtie dayes The Emperour had a Sonne as valiant in armes as anie borne Italian except Saint Anthonie This young Prince whose name was Lucius seeing his sisters timeles death and by what meanes it was committed he presently intended with a traine of a hundred armed Knightes which continually attended vpon his person to assaile the discontented Champions and by force of armes to reuenge his sisters death This resolution so incouraged the Romaine Knyghtes but especially the Emperors sonne that betwixt these two companies began as terrible a battle as euer was fought by any knights the fearcenes of their blowes so excéeded the one side against the other that they did resounde ecchoes and they yeelded a terrible noyse in the great woods This battell did continue betwixt them both sharp and fierce for the space of two houres by which time the valor of the encensed Champions so preuailed that most of the Romaine knights were discomfited and slaine some had their handes pared from their shoulders some had their armes and legs lopped off and some lay breathles w●ltring in their owne blouds in which incounter many a Romaine Ladie lost her husband many a widowe was bereaud of her Sonne and many a childe was left fatherles to the great sorrow of the whole country But when the valiant young Prince of Roome sawe his knightes discomfited and hee lefte alone to withstand so many noble Champions he presently set spurs to his horse and fled from them like to a heape of oust forced by a whirlewinde After whom the Champions would not persue accountting it no glory to their names to triumph in the ouerthrow of a single knig●● but remained still by the scaffolde where they buried the sacrificed Uirgin vnder a marble stone close by the monasterie wall The which being done to their contentments Saint George ingraued this Epitaph vppon the same stone with the point of his dagger which was in this wise following Vnder this marble stone interd doth lye Luckles Lucina of beautie bright Who to maintaine her spotles chastitie Against the assailment of an English Knight Vpon a blade her tender breast she cast A bloodie offering to Diana chast SO when hee had written this Epitaph the Christian Champions mounted vpon their swift foote stéedes bad adieu to the vnhappie Confines of Italy hoping to finde better fortune in other Countries In which trauell wee will leaue them for a time and speake of the Prince of Rome who after the discomfiture of the Romane knights fled in such hast from the furies of the warlike Champions After which hee like a starued Lion trauersed along by the Riuer of Tybris filling all places with his melancholy passions vntill such time as hee entred into a thicke groue wherein he purposed to rest hys wearie limbes and lament his misfortunes After he had in this solitarie place vnlaced his Helmet and huried it scornfully against the ground the infernal Furies began to visite him and to sting his breast with motions of fierie reuenge In the end he cast vp his wretched eyes vnto heauen and said Oh you fatall torches of the elements why are you not clad in mourn●full abiliments to cloake my wandring steps in eternall darknes shall I be made a scorne in Rome for my cowardise or shall I return and accompanie my Romane frends in death whose bloodes me thinkes I sée sprinkled about the fields of Italy Mee thinks I heare their bléeding soules fill each corner of the earth with my base flight therefore will I not liue to bée tearmed a fearfull coward but dye couragiously by mine owne hands wherby those accursed Champions shall not obtaine the conquest of my death nor triumph in my fall This being said he drew out his dagger and ryued hys heart in sunder The newes of whose desperate death after it was bruted to his Fathers eares hée interred hys bodie with his Sister Lucinaes and erected ouer them a stately Chappell wherein the Nunnes and ceremonious Monkes during all their liues sung Dirges for his Childrens soules After this the Emperour made proclamation through all his Dominions that if anie Knight were so hardie as trauell in pursute after the English Champion by force of armes bring him backe and deliuer his head vnto the Emperour he should not onely be held in great estimation through the Land but receaue the gouernment of the Empire after his decease Which rich proffer so encouraged the mindes of diuers aduenterous Knightes that they went from sundry Prouinces in the pursute of Saint George but their attempts were all in vaine CHAP. XIIII Of the triumphs tilts and turnaments that were solemnly held in Constantinople by the Grecian Emperour and of the honorable aduentures that wer there atchiued by the christian champions with other strange accidents that happened IN the Easterne Parts of the world the fame