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
with
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
.
AT
LONDON
Printed
for
Cuthbert
Burbie
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
his
shop
,
at
the
Royall
Exchange
.
1596.
To
the
Right
Honorable
Lord
Thomas
Howard
,
&c.
R.
I.
wisheth
health
,
honor
and
happinesse
.
HAuing
heard
(
Right
Honourable
)
by
a
general
report
of
the
laudable
&
vertuous
qualities
,
wherewith
your
Honours
minde
is
beautefied
,
and
your
fauourable
acceptance
of
good
will
from
the
meanest
,
I
haue
attempted
(
though
fearing
to
fall
like
Phaiton
)
to
present
into
your
Lordships
handes
this
homely
gift
:
which
is
a
Historie
of
the
seauen
Champions
of
Christendome
,
whole
names
to
this
day
is
held
in
great
estimation
through
Europe
:
where
in
steede
of
musicke
,
I
bring
you
mislike
:
for
a
learned
booke
,
an
ildle
discourse
:
thereby
to
beguile
your
ingenious
Iudgements
exercised
in
the
best
rudiments
.
Yet
presuming
vpon
this
,
that
as
the
Noblest
mindes
are
euer
the
most
curteous
,
so
your
Honour
will
vouchsafe
to
cast
a
smiling
glaunce
at
this
simple
toy
:
if
not
for
the
workemanship
,
yet
for
the
good
will
of
the
giuer
:
wherewith
if
I
be
fauoured
(
as
I
hope
well
)
my
labour
hath
his
reward
,
and
my
desire
his
content
:
in
which
assured
hope
resting
,
I
commit
your
Honour
to
the
Almightie
.
Your
Honours
in
all
humilitie
most
affectionate
.
R.
I.
To
all
curteous
Readers
,
Richard
Iohnson
wisheth
increase
of
vertuous
knowledge
.
GEntle
Readers
in
kindnes
accept
of
my
labours
,
and
be
not
like
the
chattering
Cranes
nor
Momus
mates
,
that
carps
at
euerything
:
what
the
simple
say
I
care
not
:
what
the
spightfull
speake
I
passe
not
:
only
the
censure
of
the
conceited
I
stand
vnto
,
that
is
the
marke
I
aime
at
:
whose
good
likeinges
if
I
obtaine
,
I
haue
wonne
my
race
:
if
not
,
I
faint
in
the
first
attempt
,
and
so
loose
the
quiet
of
my
happie
goale
.
Yours
in
kindnes
to
command
.
R.
I.
The
Authors
Muse
vpon
the
Historie
.
THe
famous
factes
O
Mars
deriu'd
from
thee
▪
By
wearie
pen
,
and
paynefull
Authors
toyle
:
Enroulde
we
finde
,
such
feates
of
Chiualrie
,
As
hath
beene
seldome
seene
in
any
soyle
.
Thy
ensignes
here
we
finde
in
field
displaide
,
The
Trophies
of
thy
victories
erected
:
Such
deedes
of
Armes
,
as
none
could
haue
assaide
,
But
Knights
,
whose
courage
feare
hath
not
detected
▪
Such
Ladies
sau'd
,
such
monsters
made
to
fall
,
Such
Gyants
slaine
,
such
hellish
Furies
queld
:
That
Humane
forces
few
or
none
at
all
,
In
such
exploits
,
their
liues
could
safely
shield
.
But
vertue
stirring
vp
their
Noble
mindes
,
By
valiant
Conquests
to
inlarge
their
Fames
:
Hath
causde
them
seeke
,
aduentures
forth
to
finde
,
Which
registreth
their
neuer
dying
names
.
Then
Fortune
,
Time
,
and
Fame
agree
in
this
,
That
Honours
gaine
the
greatest
glorie
is
.
Gentle
Reader
,
beare
with
the
faults
ouerpast
in
correction
,
and
they
shall
be
amended
God
willing
,
in
the
next
Impression
.
The
Honorable
Historie
of
the
Seauen
Champions
of
Christendome
.
CHAP.
I.
Of
the
wonderfull
and
straunge
birth
of
Saint
George
of
England
,
how
he
was
cut
out
of
his
Mothers
wombe
,
and
after
stole
from
his
Nurses
by
Kalyb
the
Lady
of
the
woods
:
Her
loue
to
him
,
and
her
giftes
,
and
how
hee
inclosed
her
in
a
rocke
of
stone
,
and
redeemed
sixe
Christian
Knights
out
of
prison
.
AFter
the
angr●e
Gréekes
has
〈◊〉
the
chiefest
Cittie
in
Phrigi●
,
and
turn●
King
Priams
glorious
buildinges
to
a
〈◊〉
and
desolate
wildernes
,
Duke
Aenzas
exempted
from
his
natiue
habitation
,
with
manie
of
his
distressed
countrimen
(
〈◊〉
Pilgrims
)
wandered
the
world
to
〈◊〉
some
happie
r●gion
,
where
they
might
erect
the
Image
of
their
late
subue●ted
Troy
,
but
before
that
labour
could
〈◊〉
accomplished
,
Aenaeas
ended
his
dayes
in
the
con●i●●s
of
Italie
,
and
left
his
sonne
Askanius
to
gouerne
in
his
〈◊〉
,
Askanius
dying
〈◊〉
Siluius
to
rule
,
Siluius
deceasing
,
le●t
●he
noble
and
●●●ent●rous
Brutus
,
which
Brute
(
being
the
and
hollow
trées
,
wherein
they
were
entertained
with
such
a
dismall
croking
of
night
Rauens
,
hissing
of
Serpents
,
b●llowing
of
Bulles
,
and
roaring
of
monsters
,
that
it
rather
seemed
a
wildernesse
of
furies
,
than
any
worldly
habitation
:
by
which
they
knew
it
to
be
the
inch●●ted
vale
of
Kalyb
the
Lady
of
the
woodes
:
So
pacing
〈◊〉
the
middle
of
the
thicket
,
they
came
to
a
Ca●e
whose
gate
and
entrey
was
of
Iron
,
whereon
hung
a
mightie
brasen
borne
for
them
to
winde
that
would
speake
with
the
Sorceresse
,
first
offering
their
Lambe
with
great
humlitie
before
the
post●rne
of
the
Caue
,
then
exempting
all
feare
they
winded
the
brasen
horne
,
the
sounde
whereof
séemed
to
shake
the
foundation
of
the
earth
,
after
which
they
heard
a
loude
and
hollow
voice
that
vttered
these
wordes
following
.
Sir
Knight
from
whence
thou
camst
retorne
,
Thou
hast
a
Sonne
most
strangely
borne
:
A
Dragon
fell
shall
split
in
twaine
,
Thy
Ladies
wombe
with
extreame
paine
:
A
Champion
bold
from
thence
shall
spring
,
And
practise
many
a
wondrous
thing
:
Returne
therefore
make
no
delay
,
For
it
is
true
what
I
doo
say
.
THis
da●ke
Ri●●le
or
rather
misticall
Oracle
being
thrice
repeated
in
this
order
,
so
much
amazed
them
that
they
stood
in
doubt
whether
it
were
b●st
to
returne
,
or
to
winde
the
br●●en
borne
the
second
time
:
but
being
perswaded
by
the
other
Knight
not
to
mo●ue
the
impatience
of
Kalyb
,
hee
rested
satisfied
with
that
answere
.
Thus
le●●
he
the
i●chaunted
Caue
to
the
gouernement
of
Kalyb
,
and
with
all
sp●●de
dispatched
his
iourney
to
his
〈◊〉
hab●tation
,
but
in
the
mean●
time
his
Lady
b●ing
ouerch●rged
with
extr●●me
paine
and
bitter
anguish
of
her
laborsome
wombe
,
〈◊〉
forced
either
to
the
spoyle
of
her
Infant
,
or
decay
of
her
owne
life
:
But
regarding
more
the
benefit
of
her
countrie
,
than
●er
own
safetie
,
and
for
the
preseruation
of
her
childe
,
●hee
most
willingly
committed
her
tender
wombe
to
be
opened
,
that
her
Infant
might
bée
taken
forth
aliue
.
Thus
with
the
consent
of
many
learned
Chirurgions
,
this
most
Noble
and
Magnanimious
Ladie
was
cast
into
a
dead
sl●epe
,
her
wombe
cut
vp
with
sharpe
razers
,
and
the
Infant
taken
from
the
bed
of
his
creation
:
Upon
his
brest
nature
had
picturde
the
liuely
forme
of
a
Dragon
,
vpon
his
right
hand
a
bloody
Crosse
,
and
on
his
left
leg
a
golden
garter
,
they
named
him
George
,
and
prouided
him
thrée
nurses
,
one
to
giue
him
sucke
,
another
to
kéepe
him
a
sleep
,
and
the
third
to
prouide
him
foode
,
not
manie
dayes
after
his
natiuitie
,
the
fell
Inchantresse
Kalyb
béeing
the
vtter
enemy
to
true
Nobilitie
,
by
charmes
and
witchcrafts
st●le
the
Infant
from
his
car●les
Nurses
:
At
which
time
(
though
all
too
late
)
her
Noble
Lord
and
Husband
returned
in
g●●d
hope
to
he●re
a
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
brought
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
the
Lady
of
the
woodes
boldly
stopping
in
befo●e
▪
〈◊〉
mistrusting
the
pr●tended
pol●icie
of
S.
George
,
〈…〉
in
her
owne
practises
,
for
no
sooner
entred
the
the
rocke
,
but
he
stroke
his
siluer
wand
thereupon
,
and
immediatly
it
closed
,
where
shee
bellowed
foorth
exclamations
to
the
senceles
stones
without
al
hope
of
deliuery
.
Thus
this
Noble
Knight
deceaued
the
wicked
Inchant●esse
Kalyb
,
and
set
the
other
sixe
Champions
likewise
at
libertie
,
who
rendred
him
all
Knightly
curtesies
,
&
gaue
him
thankes
for
their
safe
deliuerie
,
so
storing
themselues
with
all
thinges
according
to
their
desiers
,
tooke
their
iournies
from
the
Inchanted
groue
,
whose
procéeding
fortunes
and
heroicall
aduentures
shall
bee
shewed
in
this
Chapter
following
.
CHAP.
II.
Kalybs
Lamentation
in
the
Rocke
of
stone
,
her
Will
&
Testament
,
and
how
shee
was
torne
in
peeces
by
Spirits
:
with
other
thinges
that
hapned
in
the
Caue
.
BUT
after
the
departure
of
the
seauen
worthy
Champions
,
Kalyb
seeing
her selfe
fast
closed
in
the
rocke
of
stone
,
by
the
pollicie
of
the
English
Knight
,
grew
into
such
extreame
passion
of
minde
,
that
she
cursed
the
houre
of
her
creation
,
and
bitterly
b●nned
all
motions
of
coniuration
,
the
earth
she
wearied
with
her
cries
,
whereby
the
verie
stones
séemd
to
relent
,
and
as
it
were
,
wept
cristall
teares
,
&
sweat
with
verie
anguish
of
her
griefe
:
the
blasted
Oakes
that
grewe
about
the
Inchaunted
rocke
,
likewise
seemde
to
rue
at
her
exclamations
,
the
blustering
windes
were
silent
,
the
murmuring
of
Birds
still
,
and
a
soli●●rie
dumbnes
tooke
possession
of
euery
〈…〉
within
the
〈◊〉
of
the
woods
,
to
heare
h●r
wofull
Lamentation
,
which
she
vttered
in
this
man●●●
.
O
miserable
Kalyb
!
accu●sed
be
thy
desteny
,
for
〈◊〉
thou
art
incl●sed
within
a
desolate
&
darkesome
den
,
where
neyther
sunne
can
lend
thée
comfort
with
his
bright
beams
,
nor
aire
extend
his
breathing
coolenes
to
thy
wofull
soule
,
:
for
in
the
déepe
foundations
of
the
earth
,
thou
art
for
euermore
inclosed
:
I
that
haue
beene
the
woonder
of
my
time
for
Magicke
,
I
that
by
Arte
haue
made
my
iournie
to
the
déepest
dungeons
of
hell
,
where
multitudes
of
vglie
blacke
and
fearefull
spirits
hath
trembled
at
my
charmes
:
I
that
haue
bound
the
furies
vp
in
beds
of
steele
,
and
caused
them
to
attend
my
pleasure
like
swarmes
of
hornets
,
that
ouerspreads
the
mountaines
in
Egipt
,
or
the
flies
vpon
the
parched
hilles
,
where
the
tawnie
tanned
Mores
doo
inhabite
▪
am
now
constrained
to
languish
in
eternall
darkenes
:
woe
to
my
soule
:
woe
to
my
charmes
,
and
woe
to
all
my
Magicke
spels
:
for
they
haue
bound
me
in
this
hollowe
rocke
:
pale
bee
the
brightnes
of
the
cleare
sunne
,
and
couer
earth
with
euerlasting
darkenesse
,
skyes
turne
to
pitch
,
the
elements
to
flaming
fire
,
ror●
hell
,
quake
earth
,
swell
seas
,
blast
earth
,
rockes
rend
in
twaine
,
all
creatures
mourne
at
my
confusion
,
and
sighe
at
Kalybs
wofull
and
pittifull
exclamations
.
Thus
wearied
she
the
time
away
,
one
while
accusing
Fortune
of
t●rrany
,
another
while
bl●ming
the
falsehood
&
trechery
of
the
English
Knight
,
sometimes
fearing
her
curled
locks
of
bris●led
haire
,
that
like
a
wreath
of
s●●kes
hung
dangling
downe
her
deformed
necke
,
then
beating
her
breasts
,
another
while
rending
her
ornaments
,
whereby
shée
séemd
more
liker
●
fury
than
an
earthly
creature
,
so
impacient
was
this
wicked
inchantres
Kalyb
being
●●u●trate
of
all
hope
of
recou●ry
,
began
a
fresh
to
thund●●
forth
these
tearmes
of
coniuration
:
C●me
,
c●me
you
Princes
of
the
elements
,
c●me
,
come
and
teare
this
rocke
in
peeces
,
and
let
me
be
inclosed
vp
in
the
eternal
languishment
:
appeare
you
shadowes
of
blacke
missie
nigh●
:
Mag●ll
,
C●math
,
Helueza
,
Zontomo
:
Come
when
I
call
,
venite
●estinate
inquam
:
At
which
wordes
the
earth
began
t●
quake
,
and
the
verie
elements
to
tremble
:
for
all
the
spirits
both
of
aire
,
of
earth
,
of
water
,
and
of
fire
were
obedient
to
her
charmes
,
and
by
multitudes
cam
fl●cking
at
her
call
:
some
from
the
fire
in
the
likenes
of
burning
Dragons
,
breathing
f●om
their
tearefull
nostrels
,
sulphu●e
and
flaming
Brimstone
,
some
from
the
water
in
shape
of
Fishes
,
with
other
d●formed
creatures
,
that
hath
their
abiding
in
the
Seas
,
some
from
the
aire
the
purest
of
the
ellements
,
in
the
likenes
of
Angels
and
other
bright
shadowes
,
and
other
some
from
the
grose
earth
most
vglie
,
bl●●ke
and
dreadfull
to
behold
:
So
when
the
legions
of
spirits
had
incompast
the
wicked
Inchantresse
,
hell
began
to
rore
such
an
infernall
and
harsh
mellodie
,
that
the
Inchanted
rocke
burst
in
twaine
,
and
then
Kalybs
ch●rmes
tooke
no
effect
,
for
her
Magick
no
longer
indured
,
than
the
tearme
of
an
hundred
yeares
,
the
which
as
then
were
fullie
finished
and
brought
to
end
:
for
the
Obligation
which
shee
subscribed
with
her
dearest
blood
,
and
sealed
with
her
own
hands
,
was
brought
as
a
witnes
against
her
,
by
which
she
knew
and
fullie
perswaded
herselfe
that
her
life
was
fully
come
to
end
:
therefore
in
this
fearefull
manner
she
began
to
make
her
Will
&
latest
Testament
.
First
welcome
(
said
shée
)
my
sad
Executors
,
welcome
my
graue
and
euerlasting
toombe
,
for
you
haue
di●d●
it
in
the
fierie
lakes
of
Phlegethon
my
winding
shéet
wherein
to
shrowde
both
my
body
and
condemn●d
soule
,
is
a
Calderne
of
boyling
l●●d
and
brimstone
,
and
th●
wor●es
that
should
consume
my
Car●●sse
,
are
the
fiery
forkes
which
tosse
burning
fire●●ands
from
place
to
place
,
from
furnace
to
furnace
,
and
from
calderne
to
calder●●
▪
therefore
attend
to
Kalybs
wofull
testament
▪
a●d
ingra●e
the
Legacies
she
giues
in
brasse
rolles
vpon
the
burning
bankes
of
Acheron
.
First
these
eyes
that
now
too
late
wéepe
helples
teares
I
giue
vnto
the
watrie
spirits
,
for
they
haue
rakt
the
treasures
hidden
in
déepest
Seas
to
satisfie
their
most
insatiate
lookes
:
next
I
bequeath
th●se
hands
which
did
subscribe
the
bloody
Obligation
of
my
perpetuall
banishment
from
ioy
,
vnto
those
spirits
that
houer
in
the
Aire
:
my
tongue
that
did
con●pire
against
the
Maiestie
of
Heauen
,
I
giue
to
those
spirits
which
haue
their
b●●ing
in
the
fire
:
my
earthly
hart
I
bequeath
to
those
gr●ce
Daemons
that
dwell
in
the
●ungeons
of
the
earth
:
and
the
rest
of
m●
condemned
body
,
to
the
torments
due
to
my
deseruings
:
which
straunge
and
fearefull
Testament
,
being
no
sooner
ended
,
but
all
the
spirits
generally
at
one
instance
ceazed
vpon
the
Inchantresse
and
dismembred
her
bodie
to
a
thousand
peeces
,
and
deuided
her
limbes
to
the
corners
of
the
earth
,
one
member
to
the
Aire
,
another
to
the
water
,
another
to
the
fire
,
and
another
to
the
earth
,
which
was
carried
away
in
a
moment
by
the
spirits
,
that
departed
with
such
a
horror
,
that
all
things
within
the
hearing
thereof
sodainely
died
,
both
Beastes
▪
Byrds
,
and
all
creeping
wormes
which
remayned
within
the
compasse
of
those
inchanted
woodes
,
for
the
trées
which
before
was
wont
to
flourish
with
greene
leaues
,
withered
away
and
died
,
the
blades
of
grasse
perished
for
want
of
naturall
moysture
,
which
the
watrie
cloude
denied
to
nourish
in
s●
wicked
a
place
.
Thus
by
the
iudgments
of
the
heauens
,
sensles
things
p●rished
for
the
wickednes
of
Kalyb
,
whom
wée
leaue
to
hir
endles
torments
both
of
body
and
soule
,
and
returne
to
the
seauen
worth●
Champions
of
Christendome
,
whose
laudable
aduentures
fame
hath
in●old
in
the
bookes
of
memorie
.
CHAP.
III.
How
Saint
George
slewe
the
burning
Dragon
in
Egipt
,
and
redeemed
Sabra
the
Kinges
Daughter
from
death
:
How
hee
was
betraied
by
Almidor
the
blacke
King
of
Moroco
,
and
sent
to
the
Soldan
of
Persia
,
where
hee
slew
two
Lyons
and
remained
seauen
yeares
in
prison
.
AFter
the
seauen
Champions
departed
from
the
Inchaunted
Caue
of
Kalib
,
they
made
their
abode
in
the
C●●tie
of
Couentrie
,
for
the
space
of
nine
monthes
,
in
which
time
they
erected
vp
a
sumptuous
&
costly
monument
ouer
the
herse
of
Saint
Georges
Mother
,
and
so
in
that
time
of
the
yeare
,
when
the
spring
had
ouerspred
the
earth
,
with
the
mantles
of
Flora
,
they
Armed
themselues
like
wandring
Knights
,
and
tooke
their
iournie
to
seeke
for
forraine
aduentures
,
accounting
no
dishonour
so
great
,
as
to
spend
their
dayes
in
idlenes
atchiuing
no
memorable
accident
:
So
trauailing
for
the
space
of
thirtie
dayes
without
any
aduenture
worthie
the
noting
,
at
length
came
to
a
large
broad
Plaine
,
wheron
stood
a
brasen
piller
,
whereat
seauen
seuerall
waies
deuided
,
which
caused
the
seauen
Knights
to
forsake
each
others
companie
,
and
to
take
euery
one
a
contrary
way
,
where
we
leaue
sixe
of
the
Champions
to
their
contented
trauailes
,
and
wholly
discourse
vpon
the
fortunate
successe
of
our
worthy
English
knight
,
who
after
some
few
months
trauaile
,
happily
ariued
within
the
●eretories
of
Egipt
,
which
countrie
as
then
was
greatly
annoyed
with
a
dangerous
D●●gon
but
before
hee
had
iournied
fullie
the
distance
of
a
〈◊〉
,
the
silent
night
approched
,
and
solitary
stil●es
tooke
poss●ssion
of
all
liuing
thinges
,
at
last
he
espied
〈…〉
,
wherein
he
purposed
to
rest
his
ho●se
,
and
to
take
so●e
repast
after
his
wearie
iournie
,
til
the
〈◊〉
had
renewed
his
mornings
light
that
he
might
f●●l
to
〈◊〉
●rauaile
ag●ine
:
but
entring
the
Cottage
,
hee
found
〈◊〉
Hermit
ouerworne
with
yeares
,
and
almost
consumed
with
griefe
:
to
whome
hee
beg●n
in
this
manner
to
conferre
.
Father
(
said
hee
)
for
so
you
seeme
by
your
grauety
,
may
a
trauailer
for
this
night
craue
entertainment
within
your
Cottage
,
not
onely
for
himselfe
but
his
horse
,
or
is
there
some
Cittie
neare
at
hande
,
whetherto
I
may
take
my
iournie
without
daunger
:
The
oldman
starting
at
the
sodaine
approch
of
Saint
George
,
replyed
vnto
him
in
this
order
.
Sir
Knight
(
quoth
hee
)
of
thy
countrie
I
néede
not
demaund
,
for
I
know
it
by
thy
Burgonet
,
(
for
indeed
thereon
was
grauen
the
Armes
of
England
,
)
but
I
sorrow
for
thy
●ard
fortune
that
it
is
thy
destenie
to
ariue
in
this
our
countrie
of
Egipt
:
Wherein
is
not
left
sufficient
aliue
to
burie
the
dead
,
such
is
the
distresse
of
this
land
,
through
a
dangerous
and
tirrible
Dragon
now
ranging
vp
and
downe
the
countrie
:
which
if
hee
bee
not
euery
day
appeased
with
a
pure
and
true
virgin
,
which
he
deuoureth
downe
his
venemous
bowels
,
but
that
day
so
neglected
will
he
breath
such
a
stench
from
his
nostrels
,
whereof
will
grow
a
most
grieuous
plague
and
mortallity
of
all
thinges
,
which
vse
hath
beene
obserued
for
these
foure
and
twentie
yeares
,
but
now
there
is
not
left
one
true
virgin
but
the
Kings
only
daughter
throughout
Egipt
,
which
D●msell
to
morrow
must
bée
offered
vp
in
Sacrifice
to
the
Dragon
:
Therefore
the
King
hath
m●de
Proclam●tion
,
that
if
any
Knight
dare
proue
so
aduenterous
as
to
combat
with
the
Dragon
,
and
preserue
his
daughters
life
▪
shall
in
reward
haue
her
to
his
wife
,
and
the
Crowne
of
Egipt
after
his
dis●●ase
.
This
large
proffer
so
incouraged
the
English
Knight
that
hée
vowde
eyther
to
redeeme
the
Kinges
Daughter
,
or
els
to
loose
his
life
in
that
honourable
enterprise
:
So
taking
his
repose
and
nightly
rest
in
the
olde
mans
Hermitage
,
till
the
chearefull
Cocke
béeing
the
true
messenger
of
day
,
gaue
him
warning
of
the
Sunnes
vp-rise
,
which
causd
him
to
bu●kle
on
his
Armour
,
and
to
furnish
his
Stéed
with
strong
habilliments
of
war
,
the
which
being
done
he
tooke
his
iournie
guided
onely
by
the
olde
Hermit
to
the
valley
where
the
kinges
Daughter
should
bee
offered
vp
in
Sacrifice
:
But
when
he
approched
the
sight
of
the
valley
,
he
espied
a
far
off
a
most
fair
and
beautifull
Damsell
,
●ttired
in
pure
Arabian
silke
going
to
sacrifice
,
guarded
to
the
place
of
death
onlie
by
s●ge
&
modest
Matrons
,
which
wofull
sight
so
encouraged
the
English
Knight
to
such
a
forwardnesse
,
that
he
thoght
euery
〈◊〉
a
day
til
he
had
redéemed
the
Damsell
from
the
Dragons
tyrran●e
:
So
approching
th●
Lady
,
gaue
her
comfort
of
deliuerie
,
and
returnde
her
back
to
her
Fathers
Pallace
againe
.
After
this
the
Noble
Knight
like
a
bold
aduenterous
Champion
entred
the
valley
,
where
the
Dragon
had
his
residence
,
who
no
sooner
had
a
fight
of
him
,
but
hee
gaue
such
a
tir●able
y●ll
as
though
it
had
thundered
in
the
●llements
,
the
bignes
of
the
Dragon
was
fearef●●●
to
behold
,
for
betwixt
his
shoulders
and
his
tayle
were
fiftie
foote
in
distance
,
his
scales
glistered
brighter
than
siluer
,
but
farre
more
harder
than
brasse
,
his
belly
of
the
coloure
of
gold
,
but
more
bigger
than
a
Tun.
T●us
weltred
he
from
his
hideo●s
denne
,
and
fi●rcely
assailed
the
stu●die
Champion
with
his
burning
winges
,
that
at
the
first
encounter
,
hée
had
alm●st
fell●d
him
to
the
ground
,
but
the
Knight
nimbly
recouering
him selfe
,
gaue
the
Dragon
such
a
thrust
with
his
〈◊〉
,
t●at
it
shiuerd
in
a
thousand
péeces
,
whereat
the
furious
Dragon
so
●iercely
smote
him
with
his
venemous
tayle
,
that
downe
fell
man
and
horse
,
in
which
fall
two
of
Saint
Georges
ribs
were
sore
brused
,
but
yet
stepping
backward
,
it
was
his
chaunce
to
leape
vnder
an
Orringe
trée
,
which
trée
had
such
pretious
vertue
,
that
no
venemous
worme
durst
come
within
the
compasse
of
the
braunches
,
nor
within
seauen
foote
thereof
,
where
this
valiant
Knight
rested
himselfe
vntill
he
had
recouered
his
former
strength
:
who
no
sooner
féeling
his
spirits
reuiued
,
but
with
an
eger
courage
smote
the
burning
Dragon
vnder
his
yellow
burnisht
bellie
with
his
trustie
sworde
Askalon
,
whereout
came
such
abundance
of
venome
,
that
it
sprinkled
vpon
the
Champions
Armour
,
whereby
immediatly
through
the
impoysoned
strength
of
the
venome
his
Armour
burst
in
twaine
,
and
the
good
Knight
fell
into
a
gréeuous
and
dead
sound
,
that
for
a
time
he
lay
breathles
:
but
yet
hauing
that
good
memorie
remayning
,
that
he
tumbled
vnder
the
branches
of
the
Orringe
trée
;
in
which
place
the
Dragon
could
proffer
him
no
further
violence
.
The
fruit
of
the
trée
was
of
such
an
excellent
vertue
,
that
whosoeuer
tasted
thereof
should
presently
bee
cured
of
all
manner
of
diseases
and
infirmities
whatsoeuer
:
So
it
was
the
Noble
Champions
good
and
happie
fortune
,
a
little
to
recouer
through
the
vertue
of
the
trée
,
and
to
espie
an
Orringe
which
a
little
before
had
dropped
downe
wherwith
he
so
refreshed
himselfe
,
that
hee
was
in
short
time
as
sound
as
when
hee
first
began
the
incounter
:
Then
knéeled
hee
downe
and
made
his
diuine
supplication
to
heauen
,
that
God
would
send
him
(
for
his
deare
sonnes
sake
)
such
strength
and
agillity
of
body
as
to
slay
the
furious
and
tirrable
monster
,
which
béeing
done
,
with
a
bold
and
couragious
heart
,
hee
smote
the
Dragon
vnder
the
wing
,
where
it
was
tender
without
scale
,
wherby
his
good
sworde
Askalon
with
an
easie
passage
went
to
the
verie
hilts
through
both
the
Dragons
heart
,
liuer
,
bone
and
blood
,
whereout
issued
such
aboundance
of
purple
gore
,
that
it
turned
the
grasse
which
grewe
in
the
valley
into
a
crimson
colour
,
&
the
ground
which
before
partched
through
the
burning
stinch
of
the
Dragon
,
was
now
drenched
with
ouermuch
moysture
which
voyded
from
his
venemous
bowels
,
where
at
last
through
want
of
blood
,
and
long
continuance
in
fight
,
the
Dragon
yéelded
his
vitall
spirits
to
the
mercy
of
the
conquering
Champion
.
The
which
béeing
happely
performed
,
the
Noble
Knight
Saint
George
of
England
,
first
yéelding
due
honour
to
Almighty
God
for
the
victorie
,
then
with
his
good
sword
Askalon
he
cut
off
the
Dragons
head
and
pitcht
it
vpon
the
trunchion
of
a
speare
,
which
at
the
beginning
of
the
battaile
hee
shiuered
against
the
Dragons
scalie
backe
:
During
this
long
and
dangerous
Combat
,
his
trustie
Stéede
lay
altogether
in
a
sounde
without
any
moouing
,
which
caused
the
English
Champion
with
all
spéed
to
crush
the
ioyce
of
an
Orringe
into
hys
cold
mouth
:
the
vertue
whereof
,
presently
expelled
the
venemous
poysons
,
and
recouered
his
former
strength
againe
.
There
was
as
then
remayning
in
the
Egiptian
Court
,
one
Almidor
the
blacke
King
of
Moroco
,
who
long
had
prosecuted
(
in
the
way
of
marriage
)
the
Loue
of
Sabra
the
Kinges
daughter
,
but
by
no
pollicie
,
meanes
,
nor
manhood
,
could
hée
accomplish
what
his
har●
desired
:
But
now
finding
opportunitie
to
expresse
his
trecherous
minde
,
intended
to
robbe
and
spoyle
Saint
George
of
his
victorie
,
whereby
he
thought
to
attaine
the
gratious
fauour
,
and
singuler
g●●d
liking
of
his
Lady
and
Mistresse
,
who
lothed
his
companie
like
the
detested
Crokadiles
,
but
euen
as
the
Wolfe
though
all
in
vaine
barkes
at
the
Moone
:
So
this
fantasticall
and
cowardly
Almidor
,
through
many
rich
gifts
and
faire
promises
,
hired
twelue
Egiptian
Knights
to
beset
the
valley
where
Saint
George
slue
the
burning
Dragon
,
&
by
force
bereaue
him
of
his
conquest
:
But
when
this
magnanimious
Champion
of
England
came
ryding
in
triumph
from
the
valley
,
●spected
to
haue
beene
entertained
like
a
Conquerour
with
Drums
and
Trumpets
,
or
to
haue
heard
the
belles
of
Egipt
rung
a
ioyfull
sound
of
victorie
,
or
to
haue
haue
séene
the
str●etes
beautified
with
bonefires
:
but
contrary
to
his
imagination
was
he
met
with
Troupes
of
Armed
Knights
,
not
to
conduct
him
peacefullie
to
the
Egiptian
Court
,
but
by
falshood
and
trechery
to
dispoyle
him
of
his
life
and
honour
:
For
ne
sooner
had
he
ridden
past
the
entry
of
the
valley
,
but
he
espi●d
how
the
Egiptian
Knights
brandi●hed
their
weapons
,
and
deuided
themselues
to
inte●c●pt
him
in
his
iournie
to
the
Court
:
By
which
he
knew
them
to
be
no
faithfull
friendes
,
but
vowed
enemies
:
So
tying
his
Horse
to
a
Hatkorne
trée
,
he
intended
to
try
his
fortune
on
foote
for
feare
of
disaduantage
,
they
béeing
twelue
to
one
,
but
in
the
skirmish
Saint
George
so
valiantly
behaued
himselfe
with
his
trustie
sword
Askalon
,
that
at
one
stroke
he
slue
thrée
of
the
Egiptian
Knights
,
and
before
the
golden
Diamond
of
heauen
had
wandred
the
zo●iack
th●
compasse
of
an
houre
:
but
some
he
dismembred
of
thei●
heads
:
some
had
their
limbes
lopt
off
:
some
their
bodies
cut
in
twaine
,
&
some
their
intrayles
trayling
downe
,
so
that
not
one
was
left
aliue
to
carrie
news
to
Almidor
the
black
King
,
which
stood
(
during
all
the
time
of
skirmish
)
a
far
off
vpon
a
mountaine
toppe
,
to
behold
the
successe
of
his
hired
Champions
:
But
when
he
saw
the
Egiptians
bloodie
Tragedies
,
&
howe
the
happie
fortune
of
the
English
Knight
had
wonne
the
honour
of
the
day
:
hée
accursed
his
destenie
,
and
accused
the
Quéene
of
chaunce
with
crueltie
,
for
disapointing
hys
pretended
enterprise
,
but
hauing
a
heart
fr●ught
with
all
wicked
motions
▪
s●cretlie
vowed
in
his
soule
,
to
practise
by
some
other
trechery
S.
Georges
vtter
confusion
:
So
●unning
before
to
the
Court
of
King
Ptolomie
,
not
reueali●g
what
had
hapned
to
the
twelue
Egiptian
Knights
,
but
●rying
in
euery
place
as
he
went
,
Victoria
,
Victoria
,
the
enemie
of
Egipt
is
slaine
.
Then
Ptolomie
commaunded
euer●e
stréet
of
the
Citty
to
be
hung
with
rich
Ar●as
&
imbrothere●
Tapestry
,
and
likewise
prouided
a
sumptu●us
Charriot
of
gold
,
the
wheeles
and
other
timb●●
worke
of
the
purest
●bonie
,
the
couering
thereof
was
made
of
purple
silke
,
crosse
b●rde
with
sta●es
of
gold
:
Likewise
a
hundred
of
the
Noblest
Péeres
of
Egipt
,
attired
in
Crimson
Ueluet
and
white
,
mounted
on
milke
white
Coursers
with
rich
Caparison
attended
the
comming
of
S.
George
:
Thus
all
things
apopinted
for
his
Honourable
intertainement
,
which
they
performed
in
such
solemne
order
,
●hat
I
lacke
memorie
to
discribe
it
:
For
when
he
first
entered
the
gates
of
the
Cittie
,
he
heard
such
a
mellodious
h●rmonie
of
heauenly
sounding
Musicke
,
that
it
séemed
in
his
conceite
to
surpasse
the
sweetnes
of
the
Cherubins
,
or
the
holy
company
of
Angels
:
Then
they
most
Royally
presented
him
with
a
sumptuous
and
co●●ly
Pale
of
gold
,
and
after
inuested
him
in
that
Iuorie
Charriot
,
wherin
he
was
conducted
to
the
Pallace
of
King
Ptolomie
,
where
this
Nobl●●nd
Princeli●
minded
Champion
,
surrendred
vp
his
conquest
and
victorie
to
the
séemelie
handes
of
the
beautious
Sabra
:
where
shée
with
like
curtesie
and
more
humillity
requited
his
bountie
:
For
at
the
f●●st
sight
of
the
English
Knight
,
she
was
so
rauished
with
his
Princely
countenance
,
that
for
a
time
shée
was
not
able
to
speake
:
Yet
at
last
taking
him
by
the
hand
she
led
him
to
a
rich
pauillion
,
where
she
vnarmed
him
,
and
with
most
precious
sal●●s
imbalmed
his
woundes
,
&
with
her
●eares
washed
away
the
blood
,
which
being
done
she
furnished
a
table
with
all
manner
of
dillicates
for
his
repast
,
where
her
Father
was
present
,
who
demaunded
his
Country
▪
P●rentage
&
name
:
after
the
banq●et
was
ended
,
he
insta●●d
him
with
the
hon●ur
of
Knighthood
,
and
put
vpon
his
féete
a
paire
of
golden
spurres
:
But
Sabra
who
féeding
vppon
the
banquet
of
his
loue
,
conducted
him
to
hys
nightes
repose
,
where
she
sate
vpon
hys
bed
and
wa●
bl●●
forth
most
heauenly
melody
vppon
her
Lute
,
till
his
sences
were
ouercome
with
●
asweet
and
silent
sléepe
,
where
she
left
hym
for
that
night
after
〈◊〉
dangerous
battaile
:
But
no
sooner
did
Auroraes
●adi●nt
blush
,
distaine
the
beauty
of
the
East
,
and
the
sun
shew
his
morning
countenance
,
but
Sabra
repayred
to
the
English
Champions
lodging
,
and
at
his
fi●st
vprising
presented
him
with
●
Diamond
of
most
rare
and
excellent
vertue
,
the
which
he
wore
vpon
his
finger
:
The
next
that
entered
his
lodging
,
was
the
Trecherous
Almidor
the
blacke
King
of
Moroco
,
hauing
in
his
hand
a
boule
of
Greeki●h
Wine
▪
which
hee
offe●ed
to
the
Noble
Champion
Saint
George
of
England
▪
but
at
the
receaite
thereof
,
the
Diamond
the
Lady
gaue
him
which
he
wore
vpon
his
finger
waxed
pale
,
and
from
his
nose
felt
thrée
droppes
of
blood
,
whereat
he
started
:
which
sodaine
accident
caused
the
kings
daughter
to
suspect
some
secret
poyson
compounded
in
the
Wine
,
and
thereupon
so
vehemently
s●riked
,
that
a
sodaine
vprore
presently
ouerspread
the
whole
Court
,
whereby
it
came
to
the
Kinges
intelligence
of
the
proffered
Trecherie
of
Almidor
against
the
English
Champion
:
But
so
beare
was
the
loue
of
the
Egiptian
King
,
to
the
blacke
King
of
Moroco
,
that
no
beliefe
of
Trecherie
could
enter
into
hys
minde
.
Thus
Almidor
the
second
time
was
preuented
of
hys
pr●ctise
,
whereat
in
minde
he
grew
more
inraged
than
the
chafed
Bore
:
yet
thinking
the
third
should
pay
for
all·
So
〈◊〉
spying
a
time
wherein
to
worke
his
wicked
purpose
,
which
he
brought
to
passe
in
this
manner
.
Many
a
day
r●mained
Saint
George
in
the
Egiptian
Court
,
sometimes
reu●lling
am●ngst
Gentlemen
,
dancing
and
sporting
with
Ladies
,
other
s●m●
in
Tilts
and
Turnim●nts
,
with
other
Honourable
exercises
:
Likewise
long
and
extreame
was
the
loue
that
beautious
Sabra
bore
to
the
English
Champion
,
of
the
which
this
Trecherous
A●midor
had
intelligence
by
many
secret
practises
,
and
manie
times
his
eares
were
witnes
of
their
discourses
:
So
vpon
an
Euening
,
when
the
gorgious
Sunne
lay
l●uell
with
the
ground
,
it
was
his
fortune
to
walke
vnder
a
Garden
wall
,
to
take
the
coolenes
of
the
Euenings
aire
,
where
vnseene
of
the
two
Louers
,
hee
heard
their
amorous
discourses
a●
they
sate
dallyin●
in
the
bower
of
Roses
,
Courting
〈◊〉
●nother
in
this
manner
.
My
soules
delight
,
my
hearts
choose
comfort
▪
swéet●
George
of
England
,
saide
the
loue-séeke
Sabra
!
Why
art
thou
more
obdurate
than
the
Flint
:
which
the
teares
of
my
true
heart
can
neuer
mollifie
?
How
many
thousand
sighes
haue
I
breathde
for
thy
sweete
sake
,
which
I
haue
sent
to
thée
as
true
messe●gers
of
loue
,
yet
neue●
wouldst
thou
requite
mée
with
a
smiling
countenance
.
Refuse
not
her
deare
Lord
of
England
,
that
for
thy
loue
will
forsake
hir
Parents
,
Countrie
and
Inheritance
,
which
is
the
Crowne
of
Egipt
,
and
like
a
Pilgrime
f●llowe
thee
throughout
the
wide
world
.
O
therefore
knit
that
gordion
knot
of
wedlocke
,
that
none
but
death
can
afterwards
vnty
,
that
I
may
say
the
Sunne
shall
loose
his
brightnesse
,
the
Moone
her
splendant
be●mes
,
the
Sea
her
●ides
,
and
all
thing●s
vnder
the
cope
of
heauen
grow
contrarie
to
kinde
,
before
Sabra
the
Heire
of
Egipt
prooue
vnconstant
to
her
deare
S.
George
of
England
.
Th●se
wordes
so
fiered
the
Champions
heart
,
that
hée
was
almost
intangled
in
the
snares
of
loue
,
which
before
time
onlie
aff●cted
Martiall
discipline
:
But
yet
to
trie
patience
,
a
littl●
more
,
made
her
this
a●swere
.
Ladie
of
Egipt
,
cans●
thou
not
bee
content
that
I
haue
ventured
my
〈◊〉
to
set
thée
free
from
death
,
but
that
I
should
linke
my
f●ture
fortunes
in
a
womans
l●ppe
,
and
so
burie
all
my
Honours
in
Obliuion
?
No
,
no
Sabra
George
of
England
is
a
Knight
borne
in
a
Countrie
where
tru●
C●iualrie
is
n●urisht
,
and
hath
sworne
to
search
the
world
so
far
as
euer
the
Lam●e
of
Heauen
doth
lend
his
light
,
before
he
tie
himselfe
to
the
troublesome
state
of
marriage
▪
therefore
attempt
me
no
more
,
that
am
a
stranger
and
a
wanderer
from
place
to
place
,
but
s●●k
to
aime
at
higher
States
,
as
the
●ing
of
Mo●roco
,
who
will
attempt
to
climbe
the
●e●uens
〈◊〉
gayn●
〈◊〉
loue
and
good
liking
:
at
which
spéeches
shee
sodainely
〈◊〉
in
this
manner
.
The
King
of
Moroco
is
as
bloody
minded
as
a
Serpent
,
but
thou
more
gentle
th●n
a
Lamb
,
his
tongue
as
ominous
as
the
scriking
night
Owle
▪
but
thine
more
swéeter
than
the
morninges
Larke
,
his
kind
imbracinges
like
the
stinging
Snakes
,
but
thine
more
pleasant
than
the
creeping
vine
:
●●at
if
thou
béest
a
Knight
of
a
strange
countrie
?
thy
body
is
more
precious
to
myne
eyes
than
Kingdomes
in
my
heart
.
There
stay
(
replyed
the
English
Champion
,
)
I
am
a
Christian
,
thou
a
Pagan
:
I
honour
God
in
heauen
,
thou
earthly
shadowes
below
:
therefore
if
thou
wilt
obtaine
my
loue
and
liking
,
thou
must
forsake
thy
Mahomet
and
bée
christned
in
our
Christian
faith
.
With
al
my
soule
(
answered
the
Egiptian
Lady
)
will
I
forsake
my
country
Gods
,
&
for
thy
loue
become
a
Christian
,
and
therewithall
she
burst
a
ring
in
twaine
,
the
one
halfe
she
gaue
to
him
in
pledge
of
Loue
,
&
kept
the
other
halfe
her selfe
:
and
so
for
that
time
departed
the
Garden
.
But
during
all
the
time
of
their
discourses
,
the
Trecherous
minded
Almidor
stood
listning
to
their
spéeches
,
●
fretted
inwardly
to
the
verie
gall
to
heate
the
Mistresse
of
hys
hart
,
reiect
hys
former
curtesies
:
Therfore
intending
now
or
neuer
to
infringe
their
plighted
band
,
went
in
all
hast
to
the
Egiptian
King
,
and
in
this
maner
made
his
suplication
.
Know
great
M●narke
of
the
East
,
that
I
haue
a
secret
to
vnfold
,
which
toucheth
nerely
the
sauegard
of
your
countrey
:
It
was
my
chance
this
Euening
at
shutting
vp
of
Titons
golden
gates
,
to
take
the
comfort
of
the
Western●
breathing
aire
vnder
your
priuate
Garden
walkes
,
where
I
heard
(
though
all
vnséene
)
a
déepe
pretended
Treason
betwixt
your
Daughter
and
the
English
Knight
,
where
shée
hath
vowde
to
forsake
her
God
and
beléeue
as
the
Christians
doo
,
and
likewise
shée
intendes
to
flye
from
her
natiue
Countrie
,
and
to
goe
with
this
wandring
trauailer
,
which
hath
béene
so
highly
honoured
in
your
Court.
Now
by
Mahomet
,
Apollo
,
and
Termagaunt
,
thrée
Gods
we
Egiptians
commonly
ador●
(
sayde
the
King
)
this
damned
Christian
shal
not
gaine
the
conquest
of
my
daughters
loue
,
for
hée
shall
loose
hys
head
,
though
not
by
violence
in
our
Egiptian
Court
:
Therefore
Almidor
bee
secret
in
my
intent
,
for
I
will
send
him
to
my
cosen
the
Persian
Soldan
,
from
whence
he
neuer
shall
returne
to
Egipt
againe
,
except
hys
Ghost
bring
newes
of
bad
successe
vnto
my
Daughter
,
and
thereuppon
they
presentlye
contriued
this
Letter
.
The
Letter
to
the
Soldan
of
Persia.
I
Ptolomie
King
of
Egipt
&
the
Easterne
territories
sendeth
Greeting
to
thee
the
mightie
Soldan
of
Persia
,
great
Emperour
of
the
Prouinces
of
〈◊〉
Asia
.
This
is
to
request
thee
vpon
〈◊〉
of
friendship
betwixt
vs
,
to
shewe
the
bearer
hereof
thy
seruant
death
,
for
he
is
an
vtter
enemie
to
all
Asia
and
Affrica
,
and
a
proude
contemner
of
our
Religion
:
Therefore
faile
me
not
in
my
request
,
as
thou
wilt
answere
on
thine
oath
,
and
so
in
hast
farewell
.
Thy
kinseman
Ptolomie
the
King
of
Egipt
.
WHich
Letter
béeing
no
sooner
subscribed
&
sealed
with
the
great
Seale
of
Egipt
,
but
Saint
George
was
dispatched
with
Embassage
for
Persia
,
with
the
bloody
sentence
of
hys
owne
destruction
:
to
the
true
deliuery
whereof
,
he
was
sworne
by
the
honour
of
his
Knighthood
,
and
for
hys
pawne
he
left
behinde
hym
his
good
Steede
,
and
hys
trusty
sword
Askalon
in
the
kéeping
of
Ptolomie
the
Egiptian
King
,
only
taking
for
hys
puruay
&
easie
trauayle
〈◊〉
of
the
Kinges
horses
.
Thus
the
Innocent
Lambe
betrayed
by
the
willie
Foxe
was
sent
to
the
hungerstarued
Lyons
den
,
beeing
s●ffered
not
once
to
giue
his
Lady
and
Mistris
vnderstanding
of
hys
sodaine
departure
,
but
trauailde
day
and
night
through
many
along
and
solitarie
Wildernes
without
any
aduenture
worthy
the
memorie
,
but
that
hee
heard
the
dismall
crie
of
Night-Rauens
thundring
in
his
eares
,
and
the
fearefull
sound
of
Crickets
in
the
creueses
of
the
earth
,
and
such
like
messengers
of
mischance
,
which
foretelled
some
fatall
accident
to
be
at
hand
:
yet
no
feare
could
daunt
his
noble
minde
,
nor
danger
hinder
his
intended
trauaile
,
till
he
had
a
sight
of
the
Soldians
Pallace
,
which
seemed
more
liker
a
Paradice
than
any
earthly
habitation
for
as
the
Historie
reports
the
walles
and
towers
of
the
Pallace
was
of
the
purest
Marble
stone
,
the
windowes
of
caued
siluer
worke
,
inamiled
with
Indian
Pearle
,
beset
with
lattine
and
christall
glas
,
the
outward
walles
and
buildings
painted
with
gold
,
the
pillers
and
gates
were
all
of
brasse
,
about
the
Pallace
was
a
mighty
ditch
of
a
woonderfull
bredth
and
depth
,
ouer
the
ditch
stoode
a
stately
bridge
,
erected
vp
with
s●mp●uous
workemanship
of
grauen
Images
,
vnder
the
bridge
a
hundred
siluer
Belles
were
hung
by
Arte
,
so
that
no
creature
might
passe
into
the
Pallace
,
but
they
gaue
warning
to
the
Soldans
Guard
,
at
the
end
of
the
bridge
was
built
an
Allablaster
Tower
,
whereon
stoode
an
Eagle
of
gold
,
hys
eyes
of
the
richest
precious
stones
,
the
brightnesse
whereof
glisterd
somuch
,
that
al
the
Pallace
did
shine
with
the
light
thereof
.
Uppon
the
day
(
Saint
George
entered
the
Soldians
Court
)
when
the
Persians
solemnelie
sacrificed
to
their
Gods
Mahomet
,
Apollo
,
Tirmigaunt
,
which
vnchristian
Procession
so
mooued
the
impatience
of
the
English
Champion
,
that
he
tooke
the
ensignes
and
streamers
whereon
the
Persian
Gods
were
pictured
,
and
trampled
them
vnder
hys
féete
:
whereupon
the
Pagans
presently
fled
to
the
Soldan
for
succour
,
and
shewed
him
how
a
straunge
Knight
had
despised
their
Mahomet
and
trampled
their
banners
in
the
dust
,
then
presently
he
sent
a
hundred
of
his
Armed
knights
,
to
know
the
cause
of
that
sodaine
vprore
,
and
to
bring
the
Christian
Champion
bound
vnto
his
Maiestie
:
but
the
Persian
Knights
,
were
in●●inde
with
such
a
〈◊〉
banquet
,
that
same
of
their
heads
run
tumbling
in
the
stréetes
,
and
the
Channels
ouerflowde
with
streames
of
blood
:
the
Pauements
of
the
P●ll●ce
were
ouer●●●ed
with
slaughtered
men
and
the
walles
besprinkled
with
purple
gore
:
so
victoriously
he
behaude
himselfe
agaynst
the
enemies
of
Christ
,
that
●re
the
Sun
had
declined
in
the
West
,
he
brought
to
ground
a
hundred
of
the
Soldans
Souldiers
,
and
inforced
the
rest
like
flockes
of
shéepe
to
flye
to
the
Soldan
for
ayde
and
succour
,
which
as
then
remained
in
his
Pallace
with
the
guard
of
thrée
thousand
souldiers
:
Who
at
the
report
of
this
vnspected
vprore
,
furnished
hys
Souldiers
with
habilliments
of
warre
,
and
came
marching
from
hys
Pallace
with
such
a
mightie
power
as
though
the
strength
o●
C●rist●ndome
had
béene
come
to
inuade
the
te●retories
of
Asia
:
But
such
was
the
inuincible
courage
of
Saint
George
,
that
he
encountred
with
them
all
,
and
made
such
a
Massaker
in
the
Soldans
Court
,
that
the
Pauements
were
ouerspread
with
slaughtered
Persians
,
and
the
Pallace
gates
stuffed
with
heapes
of
murdered
Pagans
:
At
the
last
the
larum
bels
was
caused
to
be
rung
and
the
Beacons
s●t
on
fire
,
wherat
the
commons
of
the
Countrie
rose
in
Armes
,
and
came
slocking
about
the
English
Champion
like
swarmes
of
Bees
,
where
at
last
through
his
long
encounter
,
and
the
multitude
of
his
enemies
,
his
neuer
daunted
courage
was
forced
to
yéelde
,
&
hys
restles
Arme
wearied
with
fight
,
constray●ed
to
let
hys
weapons
fall
to
the
ground
.
Thus
he
whose
fortitude
sent
thousandes
to
wander
on
the
bankes
of
Acharon
,
stood
now
obedient
to
the
mercies
of
ten
thousands
,
which
with
their
brandishing
weapons
,
and
sharpe
edged
●auchions
inuironed
him
about
.
Now
bloody
minded
monster
(
said
the
Soldan
)
what
country
man
●o
euer
▪
〈◊〉
,
Iew
,
Pagan
,
or
misbeléeuing
Christian
:
●●ke
for
a
sentence
of
seuere
punishment
for
euery
dropp●
of
blood
thy
vnhappie
hande
hath
shed
.
First
,
thy
skin
with
sharpe
razers
shall
bee
pared
from
thy
fleshe
●liue
:
〈…〉
fle●●
with
burning
Irons
〈◊〉
from
thy
bones
,
&
lastly
thy
accursed
●●mbes
●rawne
in
y●eces
ioynt
from
ioynt
with
vntamed
horses
.
This
blo●dy
Iudgement
pronounced
by
the
〈◊〉
not
a
little
m●oued
S.
George
to
reply
in
this
maner
.
Great
Potentate
of
Asia
,
I
craue
the
liberty
&
law
of
Armes
,
whereto
all
the
kings
of
the
earth
by
●●th
are
ho●nd
:
Fr●●
my
discent
in
〈◊〉
natiue
Country
〈◊〉
of
Royall
blood
,
and
therefore
challenge
I
a
combat
:
secondly
an
Embassador
I
am
from
Ptolmoie
the
King
of
Egipt
,
&
therefore
no
violence
must
be
proffe●ed●●e
,
las●lie
,
the
lawes
of
Asia
graunts
me
safe
conduct
back
to
Egipt
:
therefore
what
I
hau●
done
Ptolomie
must
answere
,
and
thereuppon
hee
deliuered
the
Letter
seeled
with
the
great
seale
of
Egipt
,
the
which
was
no
sooner
broken
vp
and
read
,
but
the
Soldans
eyes
sp●rkled
like
vnto
〈◊〉
,
and
vpon
his
countenance
appea●ed
the
Image
of
wrath
and
discontent
.
Thou
art
by
the
report
of
Ptolomie
(
said
the
Soldan
)
a
great
contemner
of
our
Gods
,
12
despis●●
of
our
Lawes
:
Therefore
his
pleasure
is
that
I
should
ende
th●
daies
by
some
inhum●ne
de●th
:
the
which
I
swe●re
by
Mahomet
,
Apollo
,
and
Term●gaunt
to
accomplish
,
and
therevpon
●e
gaue
●im
in
ke●ping
to
a
hundred
of
his
Ianisaries
till
the
day
of
cre●●tion
,
which
was
appointed
within
thi●tie
da●●s
f●ll●wing
:
So
they
〈◊〉
him
of
his
apparrell
and
attired
him
in
simple
and
bate
●tray
:
His
aimes
that
late
was
imployed
to
wilde
the
mighty
T●rget
,
and
fesse
●he
wai●hty
〈◊〉
,
they
stron●ly
●et●ered
vp
in
iron
bolts
▪
and
those
handes
which
were
want
to
be●
garnished
with
stéel●
Gauntlets
,
they
bound
vp
fast
in
hemp●
bands
,
that
the
purple
blood
tric●l●d
downe
from
his
fingers
ends
,
and
so
beeing
dispoylde
of
all
Knightl●
dignit●e
,
they
co●paide
him
to
a
déepe
,
darke
and
des●late
dungeon
:
wherein
the
golden
Sunne
did
neuer
shewe
his
splendant
beames
,
nor
neuer
could
the
comfortable
light
of
heauen
be
seene
:
betwixt
the
day
and
night
no
difference
could
bee
made
,
the
the
summers
▪
partching
heate
&
winters
freezing
cold
were
both
al●ke
,
his
chiefest
comfort
was
to
number
the
Persians
he
had
slaine
in
the
conflic●
▪
one
while
ponde●ing
in
his
restles
thoughtes
the
ingratitude
of
Ptolomie
the
Egiptian
King
another
whil●
remembring
his
loue
,
his
vow
,
&
déepe
affection
that
he
bore
to
the
Egiptians
daughter
,
and
●ow●
vnkindlie
shee
tooke
his
departure
,
caruing
her
picture
with
the
na●les
of
his
fingers
vpon
the
wall●s
of
the
dungeon
:
to
which
sensles
substance
he
many
times
we●●●
thus
complai●e
.
O
cruell
destenies
!
Why
is
this
grieuous
punishment
allotted
to
my
pennance
?
Haue
I
conspired
against
the
maiestie
of
heuen
,
that
they
haue
throwne
this
vengeance
on
my
●ea●●
shall
I
neuer
recouer
m●
fo●●er
libertie
,
that
I
may
be
reuenged
vpon
the
ca●sers
of
my
imprisonment
▪
frowne
angry
heauens
vpon
these
blo●dy
minded
Pagans
,
those
daring
miscreants
,
&
professed
enemies
of
Christ
,
and
may
the
pl●gues
of
Pharo
light
vpon
their
countries
,
&
the
miserie
of
Oedipus
vpon
their
Princes
:
that
they
may
bée
eye
witnesses
of
their
d●ughters
rauishments
,
and
beholde
their
Citties
fl●ming
like
the
burning
ba●tail●mentes
of
Troy
.
Thus
lamented
be
the
l●sse
of
his
libertie
,
accursing
his
birth
day
,
and
houre
of
his
cre●tion
,
wishing
that
it
neuer
might
be
numbred
in
the
yeare
,
but
coun●ed
●min●●s
to
all
insuing
ages
:
His
sighes
exceeded
the
number
of
the
Ocian
landes
,
and
his
teares
the
water
〈◊〉
in
a
raynie
day
,
and
as
one
deminished
,
ano●her
pres●ntl●
appearde
.
T●us
sorrow
was
his
companion
,
and
dispaire
his
chiefe
〈◊〉
,
till
Hiperion
with
his
golden
C●●ch
had
thirtie
times
rested
in
Thetis
purple
Pall●ce
,
&
Ciniliia
thirtie
times
daunst
vppon
the
Christall
waues
:
which
was
the
verie
time
his
compleat
mones
should
ende
,
according
to
the
seuere
and
cruell
Iudgment
of
the
Soldan
of
Persia
:
Bu●
by
what
extraordenary
meanes
he
knew
not
:
So
looking
euery
minnute
of
an
houre
to
entertaine
the
wished
messenger
of
death
,
he
heard
a
farre
off
the
tirrable
roring
of
two
hunger
starued
Lyons
,
which
for
the
space
of
fourtéene
dayes
had
beene
restrayned
from
their
foode
,
and
naturall
sustinance
,
onely
to
deuoure
and
staunch
their
hunger
starued
bowels
with
the
bodie
of
this
thrice
renowned
Champion
:
which
crie
of
the
Lyons
so
terrified
hys
minde
that
the
haire
of
his
head
gr●w
stiffe
,
&
hys
browes
sweat
blood
through
anguish
of
hys
soule
,
so
extreamely
bee
feared
the
remorceles
stroke
of
death
:
that
by
violence
hee
burst
the
chaines
in
sunder
wherewith
he
was
bound
,
and
rent
the
curled
tresses
from
hys
head
,
that
was
of
the
colour
of
Amber
,
the
which
hee
wrapped
about
hys
armes
against
the
Assault
of
the
Lyons
,
for
he
greatly
suspected
them
to
be
the
ministers
of
hys
Tragedie
,
which
indéede
so
fell
out
,
for
at
that
same
instant
they
descended
the
dungeon
,
being
brought
thither
by
the
Guard
of
Iam●saries
,
onely
to
make
a
ful
period
of
the
Champions
life
:
But
such
was
the
inuincible
fortitude
of
Saint
George
,
and
so
polliticke
hys
defence
,
that
when
the
starued
Lyons
came
running
on
him
with
open
Iawes
,
he
valiantly
thrust
hys
sinnewed
Armes
into
their
throats
(
beeing
wrapped
about
with
the
haire
of
hys
head
)
whereby
they
presently
choaked
,
and
so
he
pulled
out
their
bloody
harts
.
Which
sp●ctakle
the
Soldans
Iannsaries
beholding
,
wer
so
amazed
with
feare
,
that
they
ran
in
all
haste
to
the
Pallace
,
and
certified
the
Soldan
what
had
hapned
,
who
commaunded
euery
part
of
the
Court
to
be
strongly
guarded
with
Armed
Souldiers
,
supposing
the
English
Knight
rather
to
be
some
monster
ascended
from
the
Sea
,
than
any
creature
of
humane
substaunce
,
or
els
one
possessed
with
some
diuine
inspiration
,
that
by
force
of
Armes
hath
accomplished
so
manie
aduenterous
stratagems
:
such
a
terrour
assayled
the
Soldans
heart
,
sé●ing
hee
had
slaine
two
Lyons
,
and
slaughtered
two
thousand
Persians
with
hys
owne
hands
,
and
likewise
ha●
intelligence
how
he
slew●
a
burning
Dragon
in
Egipt
:
caused
the
dungeon
to
be
closed
vp
with
bars
of
Iron
,
lest
he
should
by
pollicie
or
fortitude
recouer
his
libertie
,
and
so
indanger
the
whole
countrie
of
Persia
:
where
he
remayned
in
want
,
pennury
,
and
great
necessitie
,
for
the
tearme
of
seauen
winters
,
feeding
onelie
vpon
rats
and
mice
,
with
other
créeping
wormes
which
he
caught
in
the
dungeon
.
During
which
time
hee
neuer
tasted
of
the
bread
of
Corne
,
but
of
wheate
branne
and
Channell
water
,
which
daylie
was
serued
him
through
the
Iron
grates
,
where
now
we
leaue
Saint
George
,
languishing
in
great
misery
,
and
returne
againe
into
Egipt
,
where
wee
left
Sabra
the
C●ampions
betrothed
Lady
,
lamenting
the
want
of
hys
companie
,
whome
she
loued
dearer
than
any
Knight
in
all
the
world
.
Sabra
that
was
the
fairest
maide
that
euer
mortall
eye
beheld
,
in
whom
both
Arte
and
nature
séemed
to
excell
in
●urious
workemanship
,
her
body
béeing
comlier
than
the
stately
C●der
,
and
her
beautie
purer
than
the
Paphian
Quéenes
:
the
one
with
ouer
burthened
griefe
was
quite
alter●d
,
and
the
other
stayned
with
flouds
of
brackish
teares
,
that
daylie
trickled
downe
her
christall
chéekes
:
wherby
she
found
the
very
Image
of
discontent
,
the
nap
of
woe
,
and
the
only
mirrour
of
sorrow
,
she
accounted
all
companie
loathsome
to
her
sight
,
and
excluded
the
fellowship
of
all
Ladyes
,
onely
betaking
her selfe
to
a
solitarie
Cabbinet
,
where
shée
sate
sowing
many
a
wofull
storie
vpon
a
crimson
Sampler
:
whereon
sometimes
bathing
a
wou●ded
heart
with
luke warme
teares
,
that
fell
from
the
Conduits
of
her
eyes
,
then
presently
with
her
crisped
lockes
of
haire
which
dangled
downe
her
Iuorie
necke
,
dry
vp
the
moysture
of
her
sorrowfull
teares
:
then
thinking
vpon
the
plighted
promises
of
her
deare
beloued
Knight
,
fell
into
these
passionate
and
pittifull
complaints
.
O
Loue
(
said
shée
)
more
sharper
than
the
pricking
Brier
!
with
what
vnequallity
dost
thou
torment
my
wounded
heart
,
not
●●●cking
my
deare
Lorde
in
the
like
affection
of
minde
?
O
Venus
!
if
thou
be
imperious
in
thy
Deitie
,
to
whom
both
Gods
and
men
obay
,
commaund
m●
wandred
Lorde
to
returne
againe
,
or
that
my
soule
may
flee
into
the
clowds
,
that
by
the
winds
it
may
be
blowne
into
his
sweet
bosome
,
where
liues
my
bleeding
hart
:
But
foolish
fondling
that
I
am
,
he
hath
reiected
me
,
and
s●uns
my
company
like
the
Syrens
,
else
had
hee
not
refused
the
Court
of
Egipt
where
hee
was
honoured
like
a
king
,
and
wandered
the
world
to
seeke
another
loue
:
No
,
no
it
cannot
be
:
he
beares
no
such
inconstant
minde
,
for
I
greatly
feare
some
treacherie
hath
bereaude
me
of
his
sight
,
or
els
soone
s●onny
prison
includes
my
George
from
me
:
If
it
be
so
sweet
Morpheus
thou
God
of
golden
dreames
,
reueale
to
me
my
loues
abiding
,
that
in
my
sleepe
his
shaddow
may
appeare
and
report
the
cause
of
his
departure
.
After
this
pa●●●on
was
breathed
from
th●
mansion
of
her
soule
,
she
committed
her
watchfull
eyes
to
the
gouernement
of
sweete
s●eepe
,
which
being
no
sooner
closed
,
but
there
appeared
as
she
thought
,
the
shadow
and
very
shape
of
her
dearely
beloued
Lord
Saint
George
of
England
,
not
as
hee
was
wont
to
bee
,
flourishing
in
his
grauen
Burgonet
of
stéele
,
or
mounted
on
a
stately
Genet
,
deckt
with
a
watchet
Plume
of
spangled
●eathers
,
but
in
ouerworne
and
simple
attyre
,
with
pale
looks
and
leaue
▪
body
,
like
to
a
Ghoast
risen
from
some
hollow
graue
,
breathing
as
it
were
these
sad
and
wofull
passions
:
Sabra
I
am
betraide
for
loue
of
thee
,
And
logde
in
hollow
Caues
of
dismall
night
:
From
whence
I
neuer
more
shall
come
to
see
,
Thy
louing
countenance
and
beautie
bright
.
Remaine
thou
true
and
constant
for
my
sake
,
That
of
thy
loue
,
they
may
no
conquest
make
.
Let
tyrants
thinke
if
euer
I
obtaine
,
What
now
is
lost
by
treasons
cursed
guile●
False
Egipts
scourge
I
surelie
will
remaine
,
And
turne
to
streaming
blood
Morocos
smile
.
The
damned
dogge
of
Barbarie
shall
rue
,
The
balefull
stratagems
that
will
insue
.
The
Persian
towers
shall
smoke
with
fire
,
And
loftie
Babilon
be
tumbled
downe
:
The
Crosse
of
Christendome
shall
then
aspire
,
To
weare
the
proud
Egiptian
triple
Crowne
.
Ierusalem
and
Iuda
shall
behold
▪
The
fall
of
Kinges
by
Christian
Champions
bold
.
Thou
maide
of
Egipt
still
continue
chaste
,
A
Tyger
seekes
thy
virgins
name
to
spill
:
Whilst
George
of
England
is
in
prison
plast
,
Thou
shalt
be
forst
to
wed
against
thy
●ill
.
But
after
this
shall
happen
wondrous
thinges
,
For
from
thy
womb
shal
spring
three
mighty
kings
.
This
strange
and
tragicall
discourse
b●●ng
no
sooner
ende●
,
but
she
awaked
from
her
sléepe
,
and
presently
●each●●
forth
her
séemely
handes
〈◊〉
k●ng
to
〈◊〉
him
,
but
shee
catched
nothing
but
the
bri●●le
〈◊〉
,
which
caus●d
〈◊〉
to
renew
her
former
c●mplaints
;
O
wherefore
〈…〉
in
this
my
troubl●some
dreame
▪
〈…〉
that
my
Ghost
might
ha●e
haunt●d
th●
〈◊〉
m●nsters
which
falsely
betr●yed
the
brauest
Champion
vnder
the
cope
of
heauen
?
●et
for
his
sake
will
I
〈◊〉
ag●inst
the
ingratitude
of
Egypt
,
and
like
t●e
〈◊〉
Philom●
〈◊〉
fill
euery
corner
of
the
land
with
ecchoes
of
his
〈◊〉
:
any
woes
shall
excéede
the
sorro●s
of
Dido
qu●●ne
of
C●●tha●●
,
mourning
for
the
ingratitude
of
Aeneas
:
with
〈◊〉
like
passions
wearied
she
the
time
away
,
●till
twelue
mont●s
were
fully
finished
:
at
last
her
father
vnderstanding
what
feruent
affection
she
bore
to
the
English
Champion
began
●n
this
manner
to
dilate
.
Daughter
(
saide
the
Egiptian
King
)
I
charge
shée
by
the
hands
of
nature
,
and
the
true
obedience
thou
oughtest
to
beare
my
age
,
to
banish
and
ex●lude
all
fond
affections
from
thy
minde
,
&
not
to
settle
thy
loue
vpon
a
wandr●ng
Knight
that
is
vnconstant
,
and
without
habitation
:
thou
séest
hée
hath
forsaken
thee
,
and
returnde
into
hys
owne
Countrie
,
where
hee
hath
wedded
a
wife
of
that
Land
and
Nation
:
Therefore
I
charge
thée
vpon
my
displeasure
,
to
affect
and
loue
the
blacke
King
of
Moroco
,
that
rightfully
hath
d●s●rued
thy
loue
,
which
shall
bee
Honourably
holden
to
the
Honour
of
Egipt
,
and
so
departed
without
any
answere
at
all
:
By
which
Sabra
knew
hee
would
not
bee
cro●t
in
hys
will
and
pleasure
:
therefore
shee
sighed
out
these
lamentable
wordes
.
O
vnkinde
Father
to
crosse
the
affection
of
hys
childe
!
and
to
force
loue
where
no
liking
is
:
Yet
shall
my
minde
continue
true
vnto
my
deare
betrothed
Lord
,
although
my
body
be
forst
against
nature
to
obay
,
and
Almidor
haue
the
honour
of
my
marriage
bed
:
Yet
English
George
shall
enioy
my
true
Uirginity
,
if
euer
he
returne
againe
to
Egipt
▪
and
therewithall
she
pulled
forth
a
chaine
of
gold
,
and
wrapt
it
seauen
times
about
her
Iuorie
necke
.
This
(
said
shee
)
hath
seauen
dayes
beene
stéept
in
Tygers
blood
,
and
seauen
nights
in
Dragons
milke
,
whereby
it
hath
obtainde
such
excellent
vertue
,
that
so
long
as
I
weare
it
about
my
necke
,
no
man
on
earth
can
enioy
my
virginitie
:
though
I
bee
forced
to
the
state
of
marriage
,
and
lie
seauen
yeares
in
wedlocks
bed
:
yet
by
the
vertue
of
this
chaine
I
shall
continue
a
true
virgin
.
Which
wordes
being
no
sooner
ended
,
but
Almidor
entered
her
sorrowfull
Cabbinet
,
and
presented
her
with
a
wedding
garment
,
which
was
of
the
pure
vnspotted
silke
,
imbost
with
Pearle
,
and
rich
refined
gold
,
perfumed
with
swéet
Si●rian
powders
▪
it
was
of
the
colour
of
the
Lillie
when
Flora
had
be
deckt
the
field
in
May
with
natures
orniments
,
so
glorious
and
costly
her
vestures
séemed
,
and
so
stately
were
hir
Nuptiall
rights
solemnized
,
that
Egipt
admired
the
bountie
of
her
wedding
▪
which
〈…〉
dayes
was
〈◊〉
in
the
Court
of
King
〈…〉
remooued
〈◊〉
T●ipoli●
,
the
〈…〉
Almidors
forced
Bride
was
Crowned
Queene
of
Moroco
:
at
which
Coronation
the
Conduits
ra●ne
with
Greekish
Wines
,
and
the
streets
of
Tripolie
were
beauti●●ed
with
Pageants
and
delightfull
showes
.
The
Court
resounded
such
melodious
Harmonie
as
though
Apollo
with
his
sil●er
Har●e
had
de●cended
from
the
heauen●
▪
such
Tilts
and
Turniments
were
performed
betwixt
the
Egiptia
knights
,
and
the
Knights
of
Barbarie
,
that
they
exceeded
the
Nuptials
of
Hec●uba
,
the
beautious
Queene
of
Tro●
:
which
Honourable
procéedings
,
wee
leaue
for
this
time
to
their
owne
contentments
:
some
〈◊〉
:
some
dancing
:
some
reuelling
:
some
Tilting
▪
and
some
banqueting
▪
〈◊〉
the
Champion
of
England
Saint
George
,
〈◊〉
in
the
Dungeon
in
Persia
as
you
heard
〈◊〉
,
and
〈◊〉
to
the
other
six
Champions
of
C●ristendome
,
which
●eparted
from
the
brazen
pille●
,
euery
one
h●s
s●ueral
way
,
whose
Knightly
and
Noble
aduentures
,
if
the
Muses
graunt
mee
the
bountie
of
●aier
〈◊〉
springes
,
I
will
most
〈◊〉
discouer
,
to
the
honour
of
Christendome
.
CHAP.
IIII.
How
Saint
Dennis
the
Champion
of
France
,
liued
seauen
yeares
in
the
shape
of
a
Hart
,
and
howe
proud
Eglantine
the
Kings
Daughter
of
Thessalie
,
was
transformed
into
a
M●lberie
Tree
,
and
how
they
both
recouered
their
former
shapes
by
the
meanes
of
Saint
Dennis
his
horse
.
CAlling
now
to
memorie
the
long
&
weary
trauailes
S.
Dennis
the
Champion
of
Fraunce
indured
after
his
departure
from
the
other
sixe
Champions
at
the
brazen
piller
,
as
you
heard
in
the
beginning
of
the
former
Chapter
,
from
which
he
wandred
through
many
a
desolate
groue
and
wildernes
,
without
any
aduenture
worthy
the
noting
,
till
he
arriued
vppon
the
borders
of
Thessalie
,
(
béeing
a
Land
as
then
inhabited
with
wilde
beasts
)
:
wherein
he
indured
such
a
pennurie
&
scarcitie
of
victualles
:
that
hee
was
forced
for
the
space
of
seauen
yeares
to
feede
vpon
the
hearbes
of
the
fields
,
&
the
fruits
of
trées
,
till
the
haires
of
his
head
were
like
to
Egles
feathers
,
and
the
nayles
of
his
fingers
to
birds
clawes
:
his
drink
the
dew
of
heauen
,
the
which
he
licked
from
the
flowers
in
the
meadows
,
the
attire
he
cloathed
his
bodie
withall
,
bay
leaues
and
broad
dockes
,
that
grew
in
the
woodes
:
his
shooes
the
barke
of
trées
,
whereon
hee
trauailde
through
many
a
thornie
brake
:
But
at
last
it
was
his
fortune
and
cruell
destinie
,
(
béeing
●●●rpressed
with
the
extreamitie
〈◊〉
hunger
)
to
taste
&
féede
vpon
the
berries
of
a
Mulberie
tree
,
whereby
he
lost
the
liuely
forme
and
Image
of
hys
humane
substance
,
and
was
transformed
into
the
shape
and
like●es
of
a
w●lde
Hart
:
Which
strange
&
sod●ine
transformation
,
this
Noble
Champion
little
mistrusted
,
till
he
espied
his
mishapen
forme
in
a
cleare
fountaine
,
w●i●h
●ature
〈…〉
in
a
toole
and
〈◊〉
villey●
but
when
he
behelde
the
shadow
of
his
deformed
substaunce
,
and
howe
hys
heade
late
Honoured
with
a
Burgonet
of
steéle
,
no●
di●●onoured
with
a
paire
of
〈◊〉
hornes
:
his
face
whereon
the
countenance
of
true
Nobilitie
l●te
car●●red
,
now
couered
with
a
beastlike
similitude
,
and
〈◊〉
body
late
〈◊〉
true
Image
of
magnanimity
,
now
ouerspread
with
a
hea●●e
hide
,
in
colour
like
to
the
fallow
fieldes
:
which
strange
alteration
not
a
little
perple●ed
the
minde
of
S.
Dennis
,
that
it
●am●d
him
with
all
speed
(
hauing
the
natu●all
reason
of
man
still
remaining
)
to
repaire
backe
to
the
Mulberie
tree
againe
,
supposing
the
b●rries
he
had
eaten
to
be
the
cau●e
of
h●s
transformation
,
vnder
which
tree
the
distressed
●night
laid
〈◊〉
formed
limbs
●pon
the
bare
ground
,
and
thus
wofully
began
to
complaine
.
What
Magicke
charmes
(
said
hee
)
or
rather
bewitching
spels
,
remaynes
within
this
accursed
trée
▪
whose
wicked
fruite
hath
confounded
my
future
fortunes
,
&
conu●●ted
mée
to
the
tipe
of
miserie
▪
O
thou
celestiall
dir●●ter
of
the
world
▪
&
all
you
pitteo●s
powers
of
heauen
:
Looke
downe
with
kindely
lookes
vpon
my
haplesse
transformation
,
and
bende
your
b●owes
to
heare
my
wofull
lamentation
;
I
was
of
late
a
man
but
now
a
●orned
beast
;
I
was
a
souldier
&
my
Countries
Champion
:
but
now
a
loathsome
creature
and
a
pray
for
dogs
;
my
glistring
Armour
is
exchaunged
into
a
hid●
of
haire
:
my
braue
array
more
baser
than
the
lowlye
earth
:
henceforth
in
stéed
of
Princely
Pallaces
,
these
shadie
woods
must
serue
to
shrowde
me
in
:
wherein
my
Bedde
of
downe
must
bee
a
hea●e
of
sunbu●nde
mosse
:
my
swéete
recording
Musicke
the
blustering
of
the
windes
,
that
with
T●mpestious
guste●
doe
make
the
Wildernes
to
tremble
▪
The
voice
in
the
Mulber●e
tree
.
Cease
to
lament
thou
famous
man
of
Fraunce
,
With
gentle
eares
,
come
listen
to
my
mone
;
In
former
times
it
was
my
fatall
chaunce
To
be
the
proudest
maide
that
ere
was
knowne
.
By
birth
I
was
the
D●ughter
of
a
King
,
Though
now
a
breathles
tree
and
sensles
thing
.
M●
pride
was
such
that
heauen
confounded
me
,
A
Goddesse
in
mine
owne
conceit
I
was
:
What
nature
lent
too
bace
I
thought
to
be
▪
But
dead
my selfe
all
earthly
things
to
passe
:
And
therefore
Nectar
and
Ambrosia
sweet
,
The
food
of
heauen
for
me
I
counted
meete
.
My
pride
contemned
still
the
bread
of
wheate
,
Bu●
pure
foode
I
day
he
sought
to
finde
Refined
gold
was
boiled
in
my
meate
▪
Such
selfe
conceit
my
fancies
fo●d
did
blinde
:
For
which
the
Gods
aboue
transported
me
,
From
humane
substance
to
this
sensles
tree
.
Seauen
yeares
in
shape
of
Hart
thou
must
remaine
,
And
then
the
purple
Rose
by
heauens
decree
;
Shall
bring
thee
to
thy
former
shape
againe
,
And
end
at
last
thy
wofull
miserie
:
When
this
is
done
be
sure
thou
cut
in
twaine
,
This
fatall
tree
wherein
I
doo
remaine
.
After
the
〈◊〉
had
breathed
these
speeches
from
the
Mulberie
trée
,
he
stood
so
much
amazed
at
the
straungnes
of
the
words
,
that
for
a
time
his
sorrowes
bereaued
him
of
〈◊〉
spéech
,
and
his
long
appointed
punishment
constrayned
hys
thoughts
to
loose
their
naturall
vnderstanding
:
But
yet
at
last
recouering
his
senses
,
though
not
hys
humane
lik●nes
,
bitterly
complayned
hys
hard
misfortunes
.
O
vnhapp●
creature
(
said
the
wof●ll
Ch●mpion
)
mor●
miserable
than
Prog●e
,
in
her
transfor●●tion
,
had
more
distressed
than
Acte●n
was
,
whose
perfect
im●tation
I
am
made
:
His
miserie
●●ntinued
but
a
short
season
,
〈…〉
owne
dogges
the
same
day
▪
tore
him
in
a
thousand
péeces
▪
&
buried
his
transformed
carkasse
in
their
hungrie
bowels
:
mine
is
appointed
by
the
angry
destenies
,
till
seauen
times
the
summers
sun
hath
replenisht
his
radient
brightnesse
,
and
seauen
times
the
winters
rayne
hath
washt
mee
with
the
showers
of
heauen
.
Thus
complained
the
transformed
Knight
of
Fraunce
:
sometimes
remembring
hys
former
fortunes
,
and
〈◊〉
he
had
spent
hys
dayes
in
the
Honour
of
hys
countrey
:
sometimes
thinking
vpon
the
place
of
hys
Natiuity
,
renowned
Fraunce
the
Nur●e
and
Mother
of
his
life
:
sometimes
treading
with
his
feete
(
as
for
hands
hee
had
none
)
in
sandy
ground
,
the
print
of
the
wordes
the
which
the
Mulberie
tree
had
repeated
,
and
many
times
numbering
the
min●utes
of
hys
long
appointed
punishment
,
with
the
Flowers
of
the
field
.
Ten
thousand
sighes
he●
dayly
breathed
from
hys
breast
,
and
when
the
blacke
and
pitchy
mantles
of
darke
nyght
had
ouerspred
the
az●rde
firmamentes
,
and
drawne
her
sable
Curtaines
,
before
the
brights●me
windowes
of
the
heauens
,
all
creatures
tooke
their
swéet
reposed
rest
,
and
committed
their
tyred
eyes
to
quiet
●●●●pes
:
All
thinges
were
silent
except
the
murmering
of
the
running
waters
:
which
sounding
musicke
was
the
chiefest
comfort
this
distressed
Champion
enioyed
:
the
glistering
Quéene
of
night
●lad
in
her
christall
robes
,
three
Hundred
times
a
yeare
,
was
witnes
of
his
nightly
lamentations
:
the
wondring
Howla●
,
that
neuer
singes
but
in
the
night
,
sate
yelling
ouer
his
head
:
the
ruf●ll
wéeping
Nightingale
with
mournefull
mellodie
,
chearefully
att●●ding
●n
hys
person
:
for
during
the
limitation
of
his
seauen
yeares
miserie
,
his
tru●tie
Stéede
neuer
forsoke
him
,
but
with
all
diligence
and
true
loue
attended
vpon
him
day
and
night
,
neuer
wandring
away
,
but
euer
k●●ping
him
companie
:
I●
the
extream●
heate
of
Summer
were
intollerable
,
or
the
pinching
colde
of
Winter
violent
,
his
Horse
woulde
bee
a
shelter
to
defend
him
Thus
when
the
tearme
of
seauen
yeares
were
fully
finished
,
and
that
hee
should
recouer
his
former
substaunce
,
and
humane
shape
,
his
good
Horse
which
he
tendred
as
the
Apple
of
hys
eye
,
clambered
a
high
and
steepy
Mountaine
,
which
nature
had
beautified
with
al
kinde
of
fragrant
flowers
,
as
odorifferous
as
the
garden
of
Hesperides
:
from
whence
he
pulled
a
braunch
,
of
purple
Roses
and
brought
them
betwixt
his
téeth
to
hys
distressed
Master
,
beeing
in
hys
former
passions
of
discontent
,
vnder
the
Mulberie
Tree
:
The
which
the
Champion
of
Fraunce
no
sooner
beheld
,
but
he
remembred
that
by
a
purple
Rose
hee
should
recouer
hys
former
similitude
,
and
so
ioyfully
receaued
the
Roses
from
hys
trustie
Stéede
:
then
casting
hys
eyes
vp
to
the
celestial
throne
of
heauen
,
hee
conuayed
these
consecrated
flowers
into
his
emptie
stomack●
.
After
which
he
laid
him
downe
vpon
the
bosome
of
his
m●thers
earth
,
where
he
fell
into
such
a
sound
sleep
,
that
all
his
senses
and
vitall
spiri●s
were
without
moouing
,
for
the
space
of
foure
and
twenty
houres
:
In
which
time
the
windowes
and
the
doores
of
heauen
were
opened
,
from
whence
descended
such
a
shower
of
rayne
,
that
it
washed
away
his
hairie
forme
and
beastlike
shape
▪
his
horned
head
and
long
visage
,
was
turned
againe
into
a
liuely
countenance
,
and
al
the
rest
of
his
members
,
both
armes
,
legges
,
handes
,
féete
,
fingers
,
toes
,
with
all
the
rest
of
natures
giftes
,
receaued
their
former
shapes
.
But
when
the
good
Champion
awaked
from
hys
sléepe
,
●
perceauing
the
wonderfull
workmanship
of
the
Heauens
,
in
transforming
him
to
hys
humane
likenes
:
First
gaue
honour
to
Almightie
God
:
next
kissing
the
ground
whereon
he
had
liued
so
long
in
miserie
:
then
beholding
hys
Armour
which
s●oode
hard
by
hym
best
a●nde
and
almost
spoild
with
rust
,
hi●
Burgonet
and
kine
edged
Curtl●-a●e
be●indered
ouer
with
dust
:
then
l●stlie
pondring
in
his
minde
of
the
faithfull
seruice
his
trustie
Stéed
had
done
him
during
the
time
of
his
calamitie
,
whose
sable
coloured
ma●●
hung
〈◊〉
downe
his
brauny
neck
,
which
before
was
wont
to
be
pleyted
curiously
with
artificiall
knots
,
and
his
foreheade
which
was
wont
to
bee
beautified
with
a
tawnie
plume
of
feathers
?
●ow
disfigured
with
ouergrowne
haire
,
whereat
the
good
Champion
Sain●
Dennis
of
Fraunce
so
much
grieued
,
that
he
stroaked
downe
his
Iettie
●acke
,
fill
the
haire
of
his
body
lay
as
smooth
as
Arabian
silke
,
then
pulled
he
du●
his
trustie
Fa●ch●on
,
which
in
many
fierce
assaults
and
dangerous
Combats
,
had
béene
b●thed
in
the
blood
of
hys
enemies
,
which
by
the
long
continuance
of
idle
time
was
almost
consumed
with
cank●red
〈◊〉
,
but
by
his
labour
and
industrious
paines
,
he
recouered
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
from
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●
seauen
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
raging
seas
,
arriued
in
the
vnhappy
dominions
of
Iuda
;
vnhappy
by
reason
of
the
long
and
troublesome
misery
hee
indured
for
the
loue
of
a
fayre
Iew
:
For
comming
to
the
rich
and
beautifull
Citty
of
Ierusalem
,
(
being
in
that
age
the
woonder
of
the
world
for
braue
buildings
,
Princely
Pallaces
,
gorgeous
Monuments
,
and
time
woondering
Temples
)
hee
so
admired
the
glorious
scituation
thereof
,
(
being
the
richest
place
that
euer
his
eyes
beh●ld
)
that
he
stoode
before
the
walles
of
Ierusalem
one
while
gazing
vppon
her
golden
gates
glistering
against
the
Suns
bright
countenance
,
another
while
beholding
her
stately
P●nnacles
,
whose
lofty
péering
tops
seemde
to
touch
the
Clouds
;
another
while
woondring
at
her
towers
of
Iasper
,
Iett
,
and
Ebony
,
her
strong
and
fortefied
walles
thrée
times
doubled
about
the
Citty
,
the
glistering
Spires
of
the
Temples
of
Sion
built
in
the
fashion
and
similitude
of
two
Piramides
the
auncient
monument
of
Greece
,
whose
battlements
were
couered
with
stéele
,
the
walles
burnished
with
siluer
,
and
the
ground
paued
with
tinne
.
Thus
as
this
inobled
and
famoused
knight
at
A●m●s
stood
beholding
the
scituation
of
Ierusalem
,
there
sodainely
thundred
such
a
peale
of
Ordinance
within
the
Citty
,
that
it
séemed
in
his
rauished
conceit
,
to
shake
the
vales
of
heauen
and
to
mooue
the
déepe
foundations
of
the
fastned
earth
,
whereat
his
horse
gaue
such
a
sodaine
start
,
that
he
le●t
forty
foote
from
the
place
whereon
he
stood
:
After
this
he
heard
the
chearefull
sound
of
Drums
,
and
the
ecchoes
of
brazen
Trumpets
,
by
which
the
good
Champion
exspected
some
honorable
pastime
,
or
some
great
t●rnament
to
be
at
hand
,
which
indeede
so
fell
out
,
for
no
sooner
did
he
cast
his
vigilant
eyes
toward
the
East
side
of
the
City
,
but
he
beheld
a
troope
of
well
appointed
horse
come
marching
through
the
Gates
,
after
them
twelue
Armed
Knights
mounted
on
Warlike
Coursees
,
bearing
in
their
handes
twelue
blood
red
streamers
,
wheron
was
wrought
in
silke
,
the
picture
of
Adonis
wounded
with
a
Bore
,
after
them
the
King
drawne
in
a
Charriot
by
Spanish
Genets
,
(
which
be
a
certaine
kind
of
Steeds
ingendred
by
the
winde
.
)
The
Kings
Guard
were
a
hundred
n●ked
Moores
,
with
Turkish
Bowes
and
Darts
feathered
with
Rauens
quilles
,
after
them
marched
Celestine
the
●ing
of
Ierusalems
faire
Daughter
,
mounted
on
a
t●me
Unicorne
,
in
her
hand
a
Iauelin
of
siluer
,
&
Armed
with
a
breast
plate
of
gold
,
artificially
wrought
like
the
skales
of
a
Porcupine
,
her
Guard
were
a
hundred
Amazonian
Dames
●lad
in
greene
〈◊〉
,
after
them
foll●wed
a
●umber
of
●●quiers
▪
Gentlemen
,
some
vpon
Barbarian
Stéeds
,
some
vpon
Arabian
Palfray●s
▪
and
some
on
foote
,
in
pace
more
nimbler
than
the
tripping
D●are
,
●
more
swifter
than
the
tameles
Harts
v●on
the
mountaines
of
Thessalie
.
Thus
N●buzaradan
great
King
of
Ierusalem
(
for
so
was
he
called
,
)
solemnely
●unted
in
the
Wildernes
of
Iuda
,
b●eing
a
countrie
verie
much
anoyed
with
wilde
beasts
,
as
the
Lyon
,
the
Leopard
,
the
Bore
and
such
like
:
In
which
exercise
the
King
apointed
as
it
was
procl●imed
by
his
chiefe
Harrold
at
Armes
:
(
the
which
he
heard
repeated
by
a
shéepheard
in
the
fieldes
,
)
that
whosoeuer
s●ewe
the
first
wilde
beast
in
the
Forrest
▪
shuld
haue
in
reward
a
Cors●et
of
stéele
so
richlie
ingraued
,
that
it
shuld
be
worth
a
thousand
sickles
of
siluer
.
Of
which
Honorable
enterprise
when
the
Champion
had
vnderstanding
,
&
with
what
liberall
bountie
th●
aduent●rus
Knights
should
bee
rewarded
,
his
heart
was
●●ang●ted
with
inuincible
courage
,
thirsting
after
glorious
attempts
,
not
onely
for
hope
of
gaine
,
but
for
the
desire
of
Honour
:
At
which
hys
illustrious
and
vndaunted
〈◊〉
aymed
at
to
internize
his
déedes
in
the
memorable
records
of
Fame
,
and
to
shine
as
a
Christall
mirrour
to
all
insuing
times
:
So
closing
downe
his
Beuer
,
and
locking
on
his
furniture
,
scoured
ouer
the
plaines
before
the
Hunters
of
Ierusalem
,
in
pa●e
more
swifter
than
the
winged
windes
,
till
he
aproched
an
olde
solitarie
and
vnfrequented
Forrest
,
wherein
he
espied
a
huge
and
mighty
wilde
Bore
lying
before
his
mossie
den
,
gnawing
vpon
the
mangled
ioynts
of
some
passenger
which
hee
had
murthered
as
hee
trauailed
through
the
Forrest
.
This
Bore
was
of
a
wonderfull
length
and
bignes
,
&
so
tyrrable
to
behold
,
that
at
the
first
sight
,
hee
almost
daunted
the
courage
of
this
Spanish
Knight
:
for
his
monstrous
head
séemed
vgly
and
deformed
,
hys
eyes
sparkeled
like
a
●irie
furnace
,
hys
tuskes
more
sharper
than
picks
of
ste●le
,
and
from
hys
nostrels
fumed
such
a
violent
breath
,
that
it
séemed
like
a
tempestious
whirle
winde
,
his
brissels
were
more
harder
than
seauen
times
milted
brasse
,
and
his
tayle
more
loathsome
than
a
wreath
of
Snakes
:
N●re
whom●
when
Saint
Iames
approched
,
and
beheld
how
he
drank
the
blood
of
humane
creatures
,
and
deuoured
their
fleshe
,
hée
blew
hys
siluer
horne
▪
which
as
then
hung
at
the
pummell
of
hys
saddle
in
a
scarfe
of
gréene
silke
:
whereat
the
furious
monster
roused
himselfe
,
and
most
fiercely
assailed
the
Noble
Champion
,
which
most
nimbly
leaped
from
his
horse
,
&
with
his
speare
stroke
such
a
violent
blow
against
the
brest
of
the
Bor●
,
that
it
shiuered
into
twentie
péeces
:
Then
drawing
hys
good
Fauchion
from
hys
side
,
gaue
him
a
second
incounter
:
but
all
in
vaine
,
for
hee
stroke
as
it
were
on
a
Rocke
of
stone
,
or
a
piller
of
Iron
nothing
hurtfull
to
the
Bore
:
but
at
last
with
staring
eies
(
which
sparkled
like
burning
stéele
,
)
and
with
open
Iawes
the
gréedy
monster
assailed
the
Champion
,
intending
to
swallow
him
aliue
,
but
the
nimble
Knight
as
then
trusted
more
vpon
pollicie
than
to
fortitude
,
and
so
for
aduantage
skipped
from
place
to
place
,
till
on
a
sodaine
he
thrust
his
kéene
edged
〈◊〉
-
a●e
downe
his
intestine
throate
,
and
so
most
valiantly
split
his
hart
in
sunder
:
The
which
beeing
accomplished
to
his
own
des●ers
he
cut
off
the
Bores
head
,
and
so
presented
the
Honour
of
his
Combat
to
the
king
of
Ierusalem
,
(
who
as
then
with
his
mightie
traine
of
Knights
,
were
but
now
en●●red
the
Forrest
:
but
ha●ing
gratiously
accepted
the
gi●t
and
bountifullie
fulfilled
his
promises
,
demaunding
the
Champions
Countrie
,
his
Religion
&
place
of
Natiuitie
:
who
no
sooner
had
intelligence
how
he
was
a
Christian
Knight
,
and
borne
in
the
territories
of
Spaine
:
but
presently
his
patience
exchaunged
into
extreame
furie
,
and
by
these
wordes
he●
expressed
his
cankered
stomacke
towardes
the
Christian
Champion
.
Knowst
thou
not
bold
Knight
(
said
the
King
of
Ierusalem
)
that
it
is
the
law
of
Iuda
to
harbour
no
vncircumsiced
man
,
but
eyther
bannish
him
the
land
,
or
end
his
dayes
by
some
vntimel●
death
:
Thou
art
a
Christian
and
therefore
shalt
thou
die
,
not
all
thy
countries
treasure
,
the
wealthie
Spanish
mines
,
nor
if
all
the
Alphes
which
deuide
the
countries
of
Italie
and
Spaine
were
turned
to
hilles
of
burnisht
gold
,
and
made
my
lawfull
heritage
,
they
shuld
not
redéeme
thy
life
:
Yet
for
the
Honour
thou
haste
done
in
Iuda
,
I
grant
thée
this
loue
by
the
law
of
Armes
to
choose
thy
death
,
els
hadst
thou
suffered
a
timmerous
torment
:
which
seuere
Iudgment
amazed
the
Champion
,
that
desperately
he
would
haue
gorgde
him selfe
vppon
his
owne
sworde
,
but
that
he
thought
it
an
honour
to
hys
countrie
,
to
die
in
the
defence
of
Christendome
:
So
like
a
true
innobled
Knight
fearing
neyther
the
threates
of
the
Iewes
,
nor
the
impartiall
stroake
of
the
fa●all
sisters
gaue
this
sentence
of
his
own
death
:
First
he
requested
to
bee
bounde
to
a
pine
tree
with
his
breast
laid
open
naked
against
the
Sun
:
then
to
h●ue
an
●owers
respite
to
make
his
suplication
to
his
Creator
,
and
afterwardes
to
be
shot
to
death
by
a
pure
Uirgin
.
Which
wordes
were
no
sooner
pronounced
▪
but
they
disarmed
him
of
hys
furniture
,
bound
him
to
a
Pine
trée
,
and
laide
his
breast
open
readie
to
entertaine
the
bloody
str●ke
of
some
vnrelenting
maiden
:
but
such
pittie
,
m●●ke
mercy
,
and
kinde
len●ty
lodged
in
the
heart
of
●●rie
maiden
,
that
none
would
take
in
hand
to
be
the
bloody
Executioner
of
so
braue
a
Knight
:
At
last
the
tyrranous
Nabuzaradan
gaue
strickt
commandement
vpon
paine
of
death
,
that
lot●
shuld
be
cast
amongst
the
maidens
of
Iuda
that
were
there
present
,
and
to
whome
the
lot
did
fall
should
be
the
fatall
executioner
of
the
condemned
Champion
:
But
by
fortune
the
chaunce
fell
to
Celestine
the
Kinges
own
Daughter
,
beeing
the
Parragon
of
beautie
,
and
the
fairest
Maide
then
liuing
in
Ierusalem
,
in
whose
heart
no
such
deede
of
crueltie
coulde
be
harboured
,
nor
in
whose
hand
no
blood●
weapon
could
be
entertained
.
In
stéede
of
deathes
fatall
Instrument
,
she●
shot
towards
his
breast
,
a
déepe
strained
sigh
the
true
messenger
of
loue
,
and
afterward
to
heauen
she
thus
made
her
humble
supplication
.
Thou
great
commaunder
of
celestiall
moouing
powers
,
conuert
the
cruell
motions
of
my
Fathers
minde
,
into
a
spring
of
pittifull
teares
,
that
they
may
wash
away
the
blood
of
this
innocent
Knight
from
the
habitation
of
his
stained
purple
soule
.
O
Iuda
and
Ierusalem
!
within
whose
b●somes
liues
a
Wildernes
of
Tygers
,
degenerate
from
natures
kinde
,
more
cruell
than
the
hungrie
Canibals
,
and
more
obdurate
than
vntamed
Lyons
:
what
merciles
Tyger
can
vnrip
that
breast
,
where
liues
the
Image
of
true
Nobilitie
,
the
verie
patterne
of
Knighthood
,
and
the
map
of
a
Noble
minde
?
No
,
no
,
before
my
handes
shall
be
stained
with
Christians
blood
,
I
will
like
Scilla
against
all
nature
sell
my
countries
safetie
,
or
like
Maedea
wander
with
the
golden
Fléece
to
vnknowne
Nations
.
Thus
,
and
in
such
manner
complained
the
beautious
Celestine
the
Kings
Daughter
of
Ierusalem
,
till
her
sighes
stopped
the
passage
of
her
spéech
,
and
her
teares
stained
the
naturall
beautie
of
her
Rosie
Cheekes
,
her
haires
which
glistered
like
to
golden
wiers
,
she
b●sm●●de
in
dust
,
and
dis●obed
her selfe
from
her
costly
garments
,
and
then
with
a
traine
of
her
Amazonian
Ladies
,
went
to
the
King
her
Father
,
where
after
a
long
〈◊〉
▪
she
not
onely
obtainde
his
life
,
but
libertie
,
yet
therwithall
hys
perpetuall
banishment
from
Ierusalem
,
and
from
all
the
border●
of
Iuda
,
the
want
of
whose
sight
more
grieued
her
hart
,
than
the
losse
of
her
owne
life
:
So
this
Noble
&
praise
worthie
Celest●ne
returned
to
the
Christian
Champion
,
that
expected
euerie
minnute
to
entertaine
the
sentence
of
death
,
but
his
expectation
fell
out
contrarie
:
for
the
good
Ladie
,
after
shee
had
sealed
two
or
three
kisses
vpon
his
pale
lips
,
beeing
exchaunged
through
the
feare
of
death
,
cut
the
●andes
that
bound
hys
body
to
the
trée
in
a
hundred
péeces
,
&
〈◊〉
with
a
●●oud
of
fault
teares
,
the
motions
of
true
loue
,
she
thus
reuealed
her
minde
.
Most
Noble
Knight
and
true
Champion
of
Christendome
,
thy
life
and
libertie
I
haue
gainde
,
but
therewithall
thy
banishment
from
Iuda
,
which
is
a
hell
of
horror
to
my
soule
:
for
in
thy
bosome
haue
I
built
my
happines
,
and
in
thy
hart
I
account
the
Paradice
of
my
true
loue
:
thy
first
●●ght
and
louely
countenance
did
so
rauish
mee
,
when
these
eyes
beh●ld
thée
mounted
on
thy
Princely
Pa●fray
,
that
euer
since
my
hart
hath
burnde
in
affection
:
therefore
deare
Knight
in
reward
of
my
loue
,
be
thou
my
Champion
,
and
for
my
sake
weare
this
ring
with
this
pos●e
ingrauen
in
〈◊〉
.
Ardio
affectione
:
and
so
giuing
him
a
ring
from
her
finger
,
and
there
withall
a
kisse
from
her
mouth
,
shee
departed
with
a
sorrowfull
sigh
,
in
compani●
of
her
Father
and
the
rest
of
hys
Honourable
traine
,
backe
to
the
Citty
of
Ierusalem
,
béeing
as
then
néere
the
setting
of
the
Sunne
:
But
now
Saint
Iames
the
Champion
of
Spaine
,
hauing
passed
the
danger
of
death
,
and
at
full
libe●●●e
to
depart
from
that
vnhappie
Nation
,
hee
fell
into
a
hundred
cogitations
,
one
while
thinking
vp●n
the
t●ue
loue
of
Celestine
,
(
whose
name
as
yet
he
was
ignorant
of
.
)
another
while
vpon
the
cruel●ie
of
her
father
:
then
●ntending
to
depart
into
h●s
his
owne
countrie
,
but
l●●king
〈◊〉
to
the
Towers
of
Ierusalem
his
minde
sodainely
alt●red
,
for
thither
hee
purposed
to
goe
,
hoping
to
haue
a
sight
of
hy●
Ladi●
and
Mistresse
,
and
to
liue
in
some
disguised
●ort●●
her
presence
,
and
bee
her
loues
true
Champion
against
all
〈◊〉
:
So
gathering
certaine
blackberies
from
the
trées
,
he
coloured
his
body
all
ouer
like
a
Bla●kamoore
:
But
yet
considering
that
hys
spéech
would
discouer
him
,
intended
likewise
to
continue
dumbe
all
the
time
of
his
residence
in
Ierusalem
▪
So
all
thinges
ordered
according
to
his
desire
,
he
tooke
his
iournie
to
the
Cittie
,
where
with
signes
and
other
motions
of
dumbnes
,
he
declared
his
intent
:
which
was
to
bée
entertained
in
the
Court
,
and
to
spend
his
time
in
the
seruice
of
the
King
:
But
when
the
King
behold●
his
countenance
,
which
seemed
of
the
naturall
colour
of
the
Moore
little
mistrusted
him
to
be
the
Christian
Champion
whome
before
he
greatly
enuied
,
but
accounted
him
one
〈◊〉
the
brauest
Iudean
Knights
that
euer
his
eye
behelde
:
therefore
hee
instauld
him
with
the
honou●
of
Knighthood
,
〈◊〉
●ppointed
him
to
bee
one
of
his
Guard
▪
and
likewise
his
Daughters
onlie
Champion●
▪
But
wh●●
Saint
Iames
of
Spaine
saw●
himselfe
in●ested
in
that
honoured
place
,
his
soule
was
ra●ished
with
such
excéeding
ioy
,
that
he
thought
no
pleasure
comparable
to
hys
,
no
place
of
Elisium
but
the
Court
of
Ierusalem
,
and
no
Goddesse
〈◊〉
hys
beloued
Celestine
.
L●ng
continued
he
〈◊〉
,
casting
foorth
manie
a
louing
sigh
in
the
presence
of
his
Ladie
and
Mistresse
,
not
knowing
how
to
reueale
the
secrets
of
his
minde
.
So
vppon
a
time
there
ariued
in
the
Court
of
Nabuzaradan
the
King
of
Arabia
,
with
the
Admirall
of
Babilon
,
both
presuming
vpon
the
loue
of
Celestine
,
and
crauing
her
in
the
way
of
marriage
:
but
shée
exempted
all
motions
of
loue
from
her
chaste
minde
,
onlie
building
her
thoughtes
vpon
the
Spanish
Knight
,
which
shée
supposed
to
bee
in
hys
owne
Countri●
.
At
whose
melancholie
passions
her
importunate
sutors
the
King
of
Arabia
,
and
the
Adm●●all
of
Babilon
〈◊〉
:
and
therefore
intended
vpp●●●n
Euening
to
pr●sent
her
with
some
rare
deuised
Maske
:
●o
choosing
out
fi●
consorts
for
their
Courtly
pastimes
:
Of
which
number
the
King
of
Arabia
was
chiefe
and
first
leader
of
〈◊〉
traine
,
the
great
Admirall
of
Babilon
was
the
second
,
and
her
own●
Champion
Saint
Iames
the
third
,
who
was
called
in
the
Cou●t
by
the
name
of
the
dumb
Knight
,
and
in
this
manner
the
Maske
was
performed
.
First
entered
a
most
excellent
Consort
of
M●sicke
,
after
them
the
aforesaid
Maskers
in
cloth
of
gold
,
most
curiously
imbrothered
,
and
danced
a
course
about
the
hall
,
at
the
end●
whereof
,
the
King
of
Arabia
presented
Celestine
with
a
costly
sword
,
at
the
hilt
whereof
hung
a
siluer
Globe
,
and
vpon
the
point
was
erected
a
golden
Crowne
:
then
the
Musicke
sounded
another
course
,
of
which
the
Admirall
of
Babilon
was
leader
,
who
presented
her
with
a
vesture
of
purple
silke
,
of
the
colour
of
the
rainebow
;
brought
in
by
Diana
,
Venus
,
and
Iuno
:
which
being
done
the
Musicke
●●unded
the
third
time
,
in
which
course
Saint
Iames
(
though
vnknowne
)
was
the
leader
of
the
daunce
,
who
at
the
ende
whereof
likewise
presented
Celestine
with
a
garland
of
Flowers
,
which
was
brought
in
by
the
thrée
Graces
,
and
put
vpon
her
head
:
Afterwarde
the
Christian
Champion
intending
to
discouer
himselfe
to
his
Ladie
and
Mistress●
,
tooke
her
by
the
séemely
hand
and
led
her
a
stately
Morisco
daunte
:
which
béeing
no
sooner
finished
,
but
hee
●ffered
her
the
Diamond
ring
which
she
gaue
him
at
his
departure
in
the
woodes
,
the
which
shee
presently
knew
by
the
pos●e
,
and
shortly
after
had
intelligence
of
his
long
continued
dumbnesse
,
his
counterfe●
colour
,
his
chaunging
of
nature
,
and
the
great
daunger
that
hee
put
himselfe
in
for
her
sake
,
which
caused
her
with
all
the
spéede
shee
coulde
possiblie
make
,
to
break●
off
c●m●anie
,
and
to
retire
into
a
Cabbinet
which
shee
h●d
h●rd
by
,
wher●
the
same
Euening
she
had
a
long
conf●rence
●ith
●er
true
and
faithfull
louer
and
aduenterous
Champion
▪
and
to
conclude
,
they
made
〈◊〉
ag●●●ment
be●wixt
them
▪
that
the
s●me
night
vnknowne
to
anie
in
the
Court
,
she
bad
Ierusalem
a
due
,
&
by
the
light
of
Cinthias
glistering
beames
,
stole
from
her
Fathers
Pallace
,
where
in
companie
of
none
but
S.
Iames
shee
t●●ke
her
iournie
toward
the
countrie
of
Spaine
:
But
this
noble
Knight
by
pollicie
preuented
all
insuing
daungers
,
for
he
shodde
his
horse
backewar●s
,
whereby
when
they
were
missed
in
the
Court
that
they
might
be
followed
the
contrarie
waie
.
By
this
meanes
escaped
the
two
Louers
from
the
furie
of
the
Iewes
,
and
ariued
safely
in
Spaine
in
the
Cittie
of
Ciuill
,
wherin
the
g●●d
Champion
Saint
Iames
was
bo●ne
:
where
as
now
we
leaue
them
for
a
time
to
their
owne
contented
mindes
:
Also
passing
ouer
the
hurly burly
in
Ierusalem
for
the
losse
of
Celestine
,
the
vaine
pursutes
of
aduenterous
Knights
,
in
stopping
the
Ports
and
Hauens
,
the
preparing
of
fresh
horses
to
follow
them
,
and
the
mustering
of
souldiers
to
pursue
them
,
the
franticke
passions
of
the
King
for
hys
daughter
,
the
melanchollie
mon●●
of
the
Admirall
of
Babilon
for
his
Mistris
,
and
the
wofull
lamentations
of
the
Arabian
King
for
his
Ladie
and
Loue
,
and
returne
to
the
aduentures
of
the
other
Christian
Champions
.
CHAP.
VI.
The
tyr●ible
battaile
betwixt
S.
Anthonie
the
Champion
of
I●alie
,
and
the
Giant
Blanderon
,
and
afterward
of
his
strange
entertainment
in
the
Giants
Castell
by
a
Thrasian
Ladie
,
and
what
hapned
to
him
in
the
same
Castell
.
IT
was
at
that
time
of
the
yeare
,
when
the
earth
was
newly
deckt
with
a
summers
liuerie
,
when
the
Noble
and
Heroicall
minded
Champion
Saint
Anthonie
of
Italie
ariued
in
Thrasia
,
where
he●
spent
his
seauen
yeares
trauailes
to
the
honor
of
hys
countrie
,
the
glory
of
God
,
and
to
hys
owne
lasting
memorie
:
For
after
he
had
wandred
through
many
a
wear●●some
waie
both
by
Sea
and
Land
,
through
woods
and
wildernesses
,
by
hilles
and
dales
,
by
caues
and
dens
,
and
other
vnknowne
passages
,
he
ariued
at
last
vpon
the
top
of
a
high
and
steep●e
mountaine
,
wheron
stood
a
woonderfull
huge
and
strong
Castell
,
which
was
kept
by
the
most
mightiest
Giant
vnder
the
cope
of
heauen
,
whose
puissant
force
all
Thrasia
could
not
ouercome
,
nor
once
attempt
to
withstand
,
but
with
the
danger
of
their
whole
countrie
.
The
Giants
name
was
Blanderon
,
hys
Castell
of
the
purest
Marble
stone
,
his
gates
of
yellowe
Brasse
,
and
ouer
the
principall
gate
was
graued
in
Letters
of
gold
these
verses
following
.
Within
this
Castell
,
liues
the
scourge
of
Kinges
,
A
furious
Giant
,
whose
vnconquered
power
:
The
Thracian
Monarke
to
subiection
bringes
,
And
keepes
his
Daughters
prisoners
in
his
Tower
.
Seauen
Damsels
faire
the
monstrous
Giant
keepes
,
That
singes
him
Musicke
while
he
rightly
sleepes
.
His
bats
of
steele
a
thousand
Knights
hath
felt
,
Which
for
these
virgins
sakes
haue
lost
their
liues
:
For
all
the
Champions
bold
that
with
him
dealt
,
This
most
intestiue
Giant
still
suruiues
,
Let
simple
passengers
take
heede
in
time
,
When
vp
this
steepie
mountaine
they
do
clime
.
But
Knights
of
worth
,
and
men
of
Noble
minde
,
If
any
chaunce
to
trauaile
by
this
Tower
:
That
for
these
Maidens
sakes
will
be
so
kinde
,
To
trie
their
strengthes
against
the
Giants
power
:
Shall
haue
a
virgins
praier
both
day
and
night
,
To
prosper
them
with
good
successefull
fight
.
After
he
had
read
what
was
written
ouer
the
gate
,
desire
of
Fame
so
incouraged
him
,
and
the
thirst
of
honour
so
imboldned
his
valiant
minde
,
that
he
eyther
vowed
to
redeeme
the
Ladies
from
their
seruitude
,
or
die
with
honour
by
the
furie
of
the
Giant
:
So
going
to
the
Castell
gate
,
he
stroke
so
vehemently
thereon
with
the
pummell
of
hys
sword
,
that
it
sounded
like
a
mightie
thunder
clap
:
Wherat
Blanderon
sodainely
started
vp
,
béeing
fast
a
sléepe
close
by
a
Fountaines
side
,
and
came
pacing
foorth
at
the
Gate
with
a
mightie
Oake
vppon
his
necke
:
which
at
the
fight
of
the
Italian
Champion
,
so
lightly
flourished
it
about
hys
head
,
as
though
it
had
béene
but
a
light
Dimmilaunce
,
and
with
these
wordes
gaue
the
Noble
Champion
entertainement
What
Furie
hath
incenst
thy
ouer
boldned
minde
(
proude
Princockes
)
thus
to
aduenture
thy
féeble
force
against
the
violence
of
my
strong
arme
:
I
tell
thée
haddest
thou
the
strength
of
Hercules
,
who
bore
the
mountaine
Atlas
on
his
shoulders
,
or
the
pollicie
of
Vlisses
,
by
which
the
Cittie
of
Troy
was
ruinated
,
or
the
might
of
Xerxes
,
whose
multitudes
drunke
huge
riuers
as
they
passed
:
yet
all
too
feeble
,
weake
,
and
impudent
,
to
encounter
with
the
mightie
Giant
Blanderon
:
thy
force
I
estéeme
like
a
blast
of
winde
,
and
thy
strokes
as
light
as
a
few
drops
of
water
:
Therefore
betake
thée
to
thy
weapon
,
which
I
compare
vnto
a
bulrush
,
for
on
this
ground
will
I
measure
out
thy
graue
,
and
after
cast
thy
féeble
Palfray
in
one
of
my
handes
headlong
downe
this
strep●e
mountaine
.
Thus
boasted
the
vaine
glorious
Gyant
vpon
his
owne
strength
:
During
which
time
,
the
valerous
and
hardie
Champion
had
alighted
from
his
horse
:
where
after
hee
had
made
hys
humble
supplication
to
the
heauens
for
hys
good
sp●ede
,
and
committed
his
Fortune
to
the
impartiall
Quéene
of
destenie
,
hee
approached
within
the
compasse
of
the
Giants
reach
,
who
with
his
great
Oake
so
nimbly
besturde
him
with
such
vehement
blowes
,
that
they
séemed
to
shake
the
earth
,
and
to
rattle
against
the
walles
of
the
Castell
like
mighty
thunder
claps
,
and
had
not
the
polliticke
Knight
continually
skipped
from
the
furie
of
his
blow
,
hee
had
béene
brused
as
small
as
flesh
vnto
the
potte
,
for
euerie
stroke
that
the
Giant
gaue
,
the
roote
of
hys
Oake
entered
at
the
least
two
or
thrée
foote
déepe
into
the
ground●
.
But
such
was
the
wisedome
and
pollicie
of
the
worthie
Champion
,
not
to
withstand
the
force
of
his
weapon
,
till
the
Giant
grew
breathles
,
and
not
able
through
his
long
labour
to
lift
the
Oake
aboue
his
head
,
and
likewise
the
heate
of
the
Sunne
was
so
intollerable
,
(
by
reason
of
the
extreame
haight
of
the
Mountaine
,
and
the
mightie
waight
o●
hys
Iron
coate
)
that
the
sweat
of
the
Gyants
browes
ran
into
hys
eyes
,
and
by
the
reason
that
hee
was
so
extreame
fat
,
hee
grewe
blinde
,
that
hee
coulde
not
see
to
indure
Combat
with
him
any
longer
,
and
as
farre
as
hee
coulde
perceiue
,
woulde
haue
retired
or
runne
backe
againe
into
hys
Castell
;
but
that
the
Italian
Champion
with
a
bold
courage
assailed
the
Giant
so
fiercely
,
that
he
was
forced
to
let
his
Oake
fall
,
and
stand
gasping
for
breath
,
which
when
the
noble
Knight
beheld
,
with
a
fresh
supplie
hee
redoubled
his
blowes
so
couragiously
,
that
they
battered
on
the
Giants
Armour
like
a
storme
of
winters
ha●le
:
whereby
at
last
Blanderon
was
compelled
to
aske
the
Champion
mercie
,
and
to
cra●e
at
his
hands
some
respite
of
breathing
,
but
his
demaunde
was
in
vaine
,
for
the
valiant
Knight
supposed
now
or
neuer
to
obtaine
the
honour
of
the
day
,
&
therefore
neuer
resting
his
wearie
arme
,
but
redoubling
blow
after
blow
,
till
the
Gyant
for
want
of
breath
,
and
through
the
anguish
of
his
deepe
gashed
wounds
,
was
forced
to
giue
the
world
a
farewell
,
and
to
yéelde
the
riches
of
his
Castell
to
the
most
renowned
Conquerour
S.
Anthonie
the
Champion
of
Italie
:
But
by
that
time
the
long
and
dangerous
encounter
was
finished
,
and
the
Giant
Blanderons
head
disseuered
from
his
bodie
,
the
Sunne
sate
mounted
on
the
highest
part
of
the
Elements
,
which
caused
the
day
to
be
extreame
hote
and
sulthie
,
whereby
the
Champions
Armour
so
extreamely
scalded
him
,
that
hee
was
constrained
to
vnbrace
his
Corslet
,
and
to
lay
aside
his
Burgonet
,
and
to
cast
his
body
on
the
cold
earth
,
onely
to
mittiga●e
his
ouerburthened
heate
:
But
such
was
the
vnnaturall
coolen●s
of
the
earth
,
and
so
vnkindely
to
his
ouerlabored
hart
,
that
the
melted
grease
of
his
inward
parts
was
ouercooled
sodainely
,
wherby
his
bodie
receiued
such
vnnaturall
distemperature
,
that
the
vapors
of
the
cold
earth
stroke
presently
to
hys
heart
,
by
which
hys
vitall
aire
of
life
was
excluded
,
and
hys
body
without
sence
or
moouing
:
wherein
the
mercie
of
pale
death
he
lay
bereaued
of
féeling
for
the
space
of
an
houre
.
During
which
time
faire
Rossalinde
(
one
of
the
Daughters
of
the
Thracian
Kinges
,
beeing
as
then
Prisoner
in
the
Castell
,
)
by
chaunce
looked
ouer
the
walles
,
and
espied
the
bodie
of
the
Giant
headles
,
vnder
whose
subiection
shée
had
continued
in
great
seruitude
for
the
time
of
seauen
monthes
,
likewise
by
him
a
Knight
vnarmed
,
as
she
thought
panting
for
breath
,
the
which
the
Ladie
Iudged
to
bee
the
Knight
that
had
slaine
the
Giant
Blanderon
,
&
the
man
by
whome
her
deliuerie
should
be
recouered
,
she
presently
descended
the
walles
of
the
Castell
,
and
ran
with
all
speed
to
the
aduenterous
Champion
,
whome
she
found
dead
:
But
yet
béeing
nothing
discouraged
of
his
recouerie
,
féeling
as
yet
a
warme
blood
in
euerie
member
,
retired
backe
with
all
spéede
to
the
Castell
,
and
fetcht
a
box
of
pretious
Balme
,
the
which
the
Giant
was
wont
to
poure
into
hys
woundes
after
his
encounter
with
any
knight
:
with
which
Balme
this
curteous
Ladie
chafed
euerie
part
of
the
breathles
Champions
bodie
,
one
while
washing
his
stiffe
limbes
with
her
salt
teares
,
the
which
like
pearles
fell
from
her
eyes
,
another
while
drying
them
with
the
tresses
of
her
golden
haire
,
which
hung
dangling
in
the
winde
,
then
chafing
hys
li●eles
bodie
againe
with
a
Balme
of
a
contrarie
nature
,
but
yet
no
signe
of
life
could
she
espie
in
the
dead
Knight
:
which
caused
her
to
growe
desperate
of
all
hope
of
his
recouerie
:
Therefore
like
a
louing
,
méeke
,
and
kinde
Lady
,
considering
he
had
lost
his
life
for
her
sake
,
shee
intended
to
beare
him
companie
in
death
,
and
with
her
owne
handes
to
fin●●
vp
her
dayes
,
and
to
die
vpon
his
breast
,
as
This
be
died
vpon
the
breast
of
her
true
Pyrramus
:
therfore
as
the
Swanne
singes
a
while
before
her
death
,
so
this
sorrowfull
Ladie
warbl●d
foorth
this
Swan-like
song
ouer
the
bodie
of
the
Noble
Champion
.
Muses
come
mourne
with
dolefull
mellodie
,
Kinde
Siluane
Nimphes
that
sit
in
Rosie
bowers●
With
brackish
teares
commix
your
harmonie
,
To
waile
with
me
both
minutes
,
monthes
and
houres
:
A
heauie
,
sad
,
and
Swan-like
song
sing
I
▪
To
ease
my
hart
a
while
before
I
die
.
Dead
is
the
Knight
for
whome
I
liue
and
die
,
Dead
is
the
Knight
which
for
my
sake
is
slaine
:
Dead
is
the
Knight
,
for
whome
my
carefull
crie
,
With
wounded
soules
,
for
euer
shall
complai●●●
A
heauie
,
sad
,
and
Swan-like
song
sing
I
,
To
ease
my
hart
a
while
before
I
die
.
I
le
set
my
breast
vpon
a
siluer
streame
,
And
swim
vnto
Elisium
lillie
fields
:
There
in
Ambrosian
trees
I
le
write
a
Theame
,
Of
all
the
wofull
sighes
my
sorrow
yeelds
:
A
heauie
sad
and
Swan-like
song
sing
I
,
To
ease
my
hart
a
while
before
I
die
.
Farewell
faire
woods
where
singes
the
Nightingales
,
Farewell
faire
fields
,
where
feeds
the
light
foote
Does
,
Farewell
you
groues
,
you
hilles
and
flourish
dales
▪
But
fare
thou
ill
the
cause
of
all
my
woes
:
A
heauie
,
sad
,
and
Swanlike
song
sing
I
,
To
ease
my
hart
a
while
before
I
die
.
Ring
out
my
ruth
you
hollow
Caues
of
stone
,
Both
birds
,
and
beasts
,
with
all
things
on
the
ground
:
You
sencsles
trees
be
all
assistant
to
my
mone
,
That
vp
to
heauen
my
sorrowes
may
resound
:
A
heauie
,
sad
,
and
swanlike
song
sing
I
,
To
ease
my
hart
a
while
before
I
die
.
Let
all
the
Townes
of
Thrace
ring
out
my
knell
,
And
write
in
leaues
of
brasse
what
I
haue
said
:
That
after
ages
may
remember
well
,
How
Rosalinde
,
both
liude
and
dide
a
Maid
:
A
heauie
,
sad
,
and
Swanlike
song
sing
I
,
To
ease
my
hart
a
while
before
I
die
.
This
wofull
Dittie
béeing
no
sooner
ended
,
but
the
desperate
Ladie
vnsheathed
the
Champions
sword
,
which
as
yet
was
all
besprinkled
with
the
Gyants
blood
,
and
béeing
at
the
verie
point
to
execute
her
intended
Tragedie
,
and
the
bloody
weapon
directly
placed
against
her
Iuorie
breast
,
but
shee
heard
the
distressed
Knight
giue
a
grieuous
&
t●rrible
grone
:
whereat
she
stopped
her
remorc●les
●and
,
&
with
more
discreation
tendered
her
owne
safetie
,
for
by
this
time
the
Balme
wherewith
she
anoynt●d
hys
bodie
,
by
wonderfull
operation
rec●uered
the
dead
Champion
,
insomuch
that
after
some
few
gaspes
and
earnest
sighes
,
hee
raised
vp
hys
stiffe
limbes
from
the
cold
earth
,
where
like
one
cast
into
a
trance
,
for
a
time
gazed
vp
and
downe
the
Mountaine
:
but
at
the
last
hauing
recouered
hys
lost
senses
,
espied
the
Thracian
Damsell
standing
by
,
not
able
to
speake
one
word
her
ioy
so
abounded
:
But
after
some
continuance
of
time
,
hee
reuealed
to
her
the
manner
of
hys
dangerous
Encounter
,
and
successefull
victorie
,
and
she
the
cause
of
his
recouerie
,
&
her
intended
Tragedie
:
Where
after
manie
kinde
salutations
,
she
curteously
tooke
him
by
the
hand
&
led
him
into
the
Castell
,
where
for
that
night
he
lodged
hys
wery
limbs
in
an
easie
bed
stuffed
with
Turtles
feathers
,
&
softest
thistle
downe
,
the
chamber
had
as
manie
windowes
where
he
lay
,
as
there
were
dayes
in
the
yeare
,
and
as
many
dores
as
there
were
minutes
in
a
day
,
and
to
discribe
the
curious
architecture
and
the
●rificiall
workmanship
of
the
place
,
wore
too
tedious
and
a
worke
without
end
,
But
to
be
short
,
the
Noble
minded
Knight
slept
soundlie
after
his
dangerous
battaile
,
without
mistrust
of
Treason
,
or
such
Rebellious
cogitations
,
till
golden
Phoebus
●ad
him
good
morrow
,
then
rising
from
his
slouthfull
bed
,
bee
attired
himselfe
,
not
in
his
wonted
habilliments
of
warre
▪
but
in
purple
garments
according
to
the
time
of
peace
,
and
so
intended
to
ouerview
the
Nobilities
of
the
Castell
:
But
the
Ladie
Rossalinde
all
the
night
was
busied
in
looking
to
hys
Horse
preparing
dilicates
for
hys
repast
,
and
in
making
a
fire
against
his
vprising
,
where
after
he
had
refreshed
hys
wearie
spirites
with
a
a
daintie
banket
,
&
caroused
downe
two
or
thrée
bowles
of
Greekish
Wines
,
hee
after
by
the
counsell
of
Rossalinde
,
stripped
the
Giant
from
hys
Iron
furniture
,
and
lest
his
naked
bodie
vpon
a
craggie
Rocke
to
bée
deuoured
of
hungrie
Rauens
:
which
béeing
done
the
Thracian
Uirgin
discouered
all
the
secrets
of
the
Castell
to
the
aduenterous
Champion
:
First
shee
led
him
to
a
leaden
Tower
,
where
hung
a
hundred
well
approoued
Corslets
,
with
other
Martiall
furniture
,
which
were
the
spoyles
of
such
Knights
as
he
had
violently
slaine
,
after
that
shee
brought
him
to
a
stable
,
wherein
stoode
a
hundred
pampered
Iades
,
which
daylie
fed
vpon
nothing
but
humane
flesh
:
Against
it
was
directly
placed
the
Gyants
owne
lodging
,
his
bed
was
of
Iron
,
corded
with
mightie
bars
of
stéele
,
the
testerne
and
couering
of
carued
brasse
,
the
curtaines
were
of
leaues
of
gold
,
and
the
rest
of
a
straunge
and
wonderfull
substance
of
the
colour
of
the
Elements
:
after
this
shee
led
him
to
a
broad
pond
of
water
,
more
clearer
than
quicksiluer
,
the
streames
wherof
lay
continually
as
smooth
as
Christall
Ice
,
whereon
swam
six
milke
white
Swans
with
Crownes
of
gold
about
their
neckes
.
O
here
saide
the
Thracian
Lady
,
begins
the
hell
of
al
my
griefe
!
At
which
wordes
a
pearled
shower
of
teares
ran
from
the
Conduits
of
her
eyes
,
that
for
a
time
they
staide
the
passage
of
her
tongue
,
but
hauing
discharged
her
heart
from
a
few
sorrowfull
sighes
,
she
began
in
this
manner
to
tell
her
passed
fortunes
.
These
sixe
milke-white
Swans
most
honoured
Knight
,
you
behold
swimming
in
this
riuer
(
quoth
the
Ladie
Rossalinde
)
be
my
naturall
sisters
,
both
by
birth
and
blood
,
and
all
Daughters
to
the
King
of
Thrace
,
béeing
now
Gouernour
of
this
vnhappie
Countrie
,
and
the
beginning
of
our
imprisonment
befell
in
this
vnfortunate
manner
.
The
King
my
Father
ordayned
a
solemne
hunting
to
be
holden
through
the
land
,
in
which
Honourable
pastime
,
my selfe
in
companie
of
my
sixe
sisters
were
present
:
●o
in
the
middle
of
our
sportes
,
when
the
Lords
and
Barrons
of
Thracia
were
in
chace
after
a
mightie
shée
Lyon
,
the
heauens
sodainely
began
to
lower
,
the
firmaments
ouer
cast
,
and
a
generall
darkenesse
ouerspread
the
face
of
the
whole
earth
,
then
presently
rose
such
a
storme
of
lightning
and
thunder
,
as
though
heauen
and
earth
had
met
together-by
which
our
mightie
troupes
of
Knights
and
Barrons
were
seperated
one
from
another
,
and
we
poore
Ladies
forced
by
misfortune
to
séeke
for
shelter
vnder
the
bottome
of
this
high
and
steepie
mountaine
:
where
when
this
cruell
Gyant
Blanderon
espied
vs
as
hee
walked
vpon
his
Battailements
,
sodainely
descended
the
mountaine
,
and
fetcht
vs
all
vnder
hys
Arme
vp
into
his
Castell
,
where
euer
since
we
haue
liued
in
great
seruitude
,
and
for
the
woonderfull
transformation
of
my
sixe
sisters
,
thus
it
came
to
passe
as
followeth
.
Upon
a
time
the
Gyant
béeing
ouercharged
with
wine
,
grew
innamored
vpon
our
beauties
,
and
desired
much
to
enioy
the
pleasures
of
our
virginities
,
our
excellent
gifts
of
nature
so
inflamed
hys
minde
with
iust
,
●hat
he
would
haue
forced
vs
euerie
one
to
satisfie
hys
sinfull
desires
:
but
as
he
tooke
my
sisters
one
by
one
into
hys
lodging
thinking
to
deflowre
them
,
their
earnest
praies
so
preuailed
in
the
sight
of
God
,
that
he
preserued
their
chasteties
by
a
most
straunge
and
woonderfull
miracle
,
and
turned
their
comely
bodies
into
the
shape
of
milke-white
Swannes
,
euen
in
the
same
forme
as
heere
you
see
them
swimming
:
So
when
this
monstrous
Gyant
sawe
that
hys
intent
was
crost
,
and
howe
there
was
none
left
behinde
to
supplie
hys
want
,
but
my
vnfortunate
selfe
,
hee
restrained
hys
filthie
lust
,
not
violating
my
Honour
with
any
staine
of
infamie
,
but
kept
mee
euer
since
a
most
pure
Uirgin
,
onlie
with
swéet
inspiring
mu●sike
to
bring
him
to
his
sléepe
.
Thus
haue
you
heard
(
most
Noble
Knight
)
the
true
discourse
of
my
most
vnhappy
fortunes
,
and
the
wonderfull
transformation
of
my
sixe
sisters
,
whose
losse
to
this
day
is
greatly
lamented
throughout
all
Thrace
,
and
with
that
word
she
made
an
end
of
her
Tragicall
discourse
,
not
able
to
vtter
the
rest
for
weeping
:
whereat
the
Knight
being
oppressed
then
with
like
sorrow
,
imbraced
her
about
the
slender
waste
,
and
thus
ki●dely
began
to
comfort
her
.
My
most
deare
and
kinde
Ladie
,
within
whose
countenance
,
I
see
how
vertue
is
inthronized
,
and
in
whose
minde
liues
true
Magnanimitie
,
let
these
few
wordes
suffice
to
comfort
thy
sorrowfull
cogitations
:
First
thinke
that
the
Heauens
are
most
beneficiall
vnto
thée
in
preseruing
thy
chastity
from
the
Giants
insatiate
desires
,
then
for
thy
deliuerie
by
my
meanes
from
thy
slauish
seruitude
:
Thirdly
and
lastly
,
that
thou
remaining
in
thy
naturall
shape
&
likenes
,
mayest
liue
to
bee
the
meanes
of
thy
sisters
transformations
:
Therefore
drie
vp
those
Cristall
pearled
teares
,
and
b●d
thy
long
continued
sorrowes
adue
:
for
griefe
is
companion
with
dispaire
,
and
dispaire
a
procurer
of
an
infamous
death
.
Thus
the
wofull
Thracian
Ladie
was
comforted
by
the
Noble
Christian
Champion
:
where
after
a
fewe
kinde
gréetings
they
intended
to
trauaile
to
her
Fathers
Court
,
there
to
relate
what
had
hapned
to
her
sisters
in
the
Castel
,
likewise
the
Gyants
confusion
,
and
her
owne
safe
deliuery
by
the
illustrious
prowesse
of
the
Christian
Knight
:
So
taking
the
keyes
of
the
Castell
,
which
was
of
a
wonderful
waight
,
they
locked
vp
the
gates
and
paced
hand
in
hand
downe
the
stée●ie
mountaine
,
till
they
aproached
the
Thraci●n
Court
,
which
was
distant
from
the
Castell
some
tenne
miles
:
but
by
that
time
they
had
a
sight
of
the
Pallace
the
Sunne
was
wandred
to
the
vnder
world
,
and
the
light
of
heauen
,
sate
●●●●fled
vp
in
cloudes
of
pitch
,
the
which
not
a
little
discontented
the
wearie
trauailers
:
but
at
last
comming
to
her
Fathers
Gates
,
they
heard
a
solemne
sound
of
belles
,
ringing
the
funerall
knell
of
some
Noble
estate
:
the
cause
of
which
solemne
ringing
they
demaunded
of
the
Porter
,
who
in
this
manner
expressed
the
truth
of
the
matter
vnto
them
.
Faire
Ladie
,
and
most
renowned
Knight
,
(
said
the
Porter
)
for
so
you
séeme
both
by
your
speeches
and
Honourable
demaundes
,
the
cause
of
this
ringing
is
for
the
losse
of
the
Kinges
seauen
daughters
,
the
number
of
which
Belles
be
seauen
,
called
after
the
name
of
the
seauen
Princes
,
which
neuer
yet
hath
ceased
their
dolefull
melodie
,
since
the
departure
of
the
vnhappie
Ladies
,
nor
neuer
must
vntill
ioyfull
newes
be
heard
of
their
safe
returne
.
Then
now
their
taskes
be
ended
,
(
said
the
Noble
mindded
Rossalinde
)
for
we
bring
happie
newes
of
the
seauen
Princes
abidings
:
At
which
wordes
the
Porter
beeing
rauished
with
ioy
,
in
all
hast
ranne
to
the
steeple
,
and
caused
the
Belles
to
cease
:
whereat
the
King
of
Thrace
beeing
at
hys
Royall
supper
,
and
hearing
the
Belles
to
cease
their
wonted
melodie
,
sodainely
started
vp
from
hys
Princelie
seate
,
and
like
a
man
amazed
ran
to
the
●allace
gate
,
where
as
he
founde
hys
Daughter
Rossalinde
in
companie
of
a
strange
Knight
,
which
when
he
beheld
hys
ioy
so
excéeded
,
that
hee
sounded
in
his
daughters
besome
,
but
beeing
recouered
to
his
former
sence
,
he
brought
them
both
vp
into
his
Princely
Hall
,
where
their
entertainements
were
so
honorable
,
and
so
gratious
in
the
eyes
of
the
whole
Court
,
that
it
were
too
tedious
and
ouerlong
to
describe
,
but
their
ioy
continued
but
a
short
season
,
for
it
was
presently
dasht
with
Rosalindes
tragicall
discourse
:
for
the
good
old
King
when
he
heard
of
his
daughters
transformations
,
and
how
they
liude
in
the
shapes
of
milke-white
Swans
,
hee
rent
his
lockes
of
siluer
haire
,
which
time
had
died
with
the
pledge
of
wisdome
,
his
rich
and
imbrothered
garments
he
tore
into
a
thousand
p●eces
,
and
clad
hys
aged
limbes
in
a
dismall
blacke
,
and
sable
mantle
,
more
discontented
than
the
wof●●
King
of
Troy
,
when
he
beheld
hys
owne
Sonnes
by
the
haire
of
the
heads
dragged
vp
and
downe
the
stréetes
,
also
he
commaunded
that
his
Knights
and
aduenterous
Champions
in
stéede
of
glistring
Armour
should
weare
the
wéeds
of
death
,
more
blacke
in
h●w
than
winters
darkest
nights
,
and
all
the
Courtly
Ladies
and
gallant
Thracian
maydens
in
stéede
of
silken
vestments
he
commaunded
to
weare
both
heauy
sad
and
melancholly
ornaments
,
and
euen
as
vnto
a
solemne
funerall
,
so
to
attend
him
to
the
Giants
Castell
,
&
there
obsequiously
to
offer
vp
vnto
the
angry
Destenies
,
many
a
bitter
sigh
and
teare
in
remembrance
of
his
transformed
daughters
:
Which
decrée
of
the
sorrowfull
Thracian
King
was
performed
with
all
conuenient
spéede
,
for
the
next
morning
no
sooner
had
Phoebus
cast
his
beauty
vnto
the
Kinges
bed-chamber
,
but
hee
apparrelled
himselfe
in
mourning
garments
,
and
in
company
of
his
melancholly
trayne
set
forward
to
his
wofull
Pilgrimage
:
But
now
we
must
not
forget
the
Princely
minded
Champion
of
Italie
,
nor
the
Noble
Lady
Rossalinde
who
at
the
Kinges
departure
towardes
the
Castell
crau●●
leaue
to
slay
behinde
,
and
not
so
sodainely
to
beginne
a
newe
trauell
,
whereunto
the
King
quickly
condiscended
,
considering
their
late
iourney
the
euening
before
,
so
taking
the
Castell
keyes
from
the
Champion
,
he
bid
his
Pallace
adew
,
and
committed
his
fortune
to
his
sorrowfull
iourney
:
where
wee
lea●●
him
in
a
world
of
discontented
passions
,
and
a
while
discourse
what
hapned
to
the
Christian
Champion
and
his
beloued
Lady
,
for
by
that
time
the
Sunne
had
thrice
measured
the
world
with
his
restles
stéedes
,
and
thrice
his
sister
Luna
wandred
to
the
west
,
the
Noble
Italian
Knight
grewe
weary
of
his
long
continued
rest
,
and
thought
it
a
great
dishonour
&
a
scandall
to
his
valiant
minde
,
to
remayne
where
naught
but
Chamber
sportes
were
resident
,
desired
rather
to
abide
in
a
Court
that
entertaynde
the
dolefull
murmuring
of
tragedyes
,
where
the
ioyfull
sound
of
Drums
and
Trumpets
shoulde
bee
heard
,
therefore
taking
Rossalinde
by
the
hand
,
being
then
in
a
dumpe
for
the
want
of
her
father
,
to
whome
the
good
Knight
in
this
manner
expressed
his
secrete
intent
▪
My
most
deuoted
Lady
and
Mistris
(
sayd
the
Champion
)
a
second
Dido
for
thy
loue
,
a
staine
to
Venus
for
●y
beautie
,
Penelopes
compare
for
constancie
,
and
for
c●astetie
the
wonder
of
all
maides
:
the
faithfull
loue
that
hitherto
I
haue
found
since
my
arriuall
,
for
euer
shall
be
●●●ined
in
my
hart
,
and
before
all
Ladies
vnder
the
cope
of
h●uen
,
thou
shalt
liue
and
die
my
soules
true
gouernesse
,
an●
for
thy
sake
●e
stand
as
Champion
against
all
Knights
i●
the
worlde
:
But
to
impaire
the
honour
of
my
Knighthoo●
,
and
to
liue
like
a
carpet
dancer
in
the
laps
of
Ladies
I
will
not
,
though
I
can
tune
a
Luts
in
a
Princes
Chamber
,
I
can
sounde
as
well
a
fierce
alarum
in
the
field
:
honour
ca●l●s
mee
foorth
deare
Rossalinde
,
and
fame
intendes
to
burkle
on
my
Armour
,
which
now
lies
rusting
in
the
idle
Court
of
Thrace
:
Therefore
I
am
constrained
(
though
most
vnwilling
)
to
leaue
the
comfortable
sight
of
thy
beautie
,
and
commit
my
fortune
to
a
longer
trauaile
,
but
I
protest
wheresoeuer
I
become
,
or
in
what
Region
soeuer
I
●e
harboured
,
there
will
I
mainetaine
to
the
losse
of
my
life
,
that
both
thy
loue
,
constancie
,
beautie
,
and
Chastetie
▪
surpasseth
all
Dames
aliue
,
and
with
this
promise
my
most
diuine
Rossalinde
,
I
bid
thée
farewell
:
But
before
the
honorable
minded
Champion
could
finish
what
he
had
purposed
to
vtter
,
the
Ladie
béeing
wounded
inwardly
with
exstreame
griefe
,
not
able
to
indure
to
kéepe
silent
any
longer
,
but
with
teares
falling
from
her
eyes
,
brake
off
his
speeches
in
this
manner
.
Sir
Knight
(
said
shée
)
by
whome
my
libertie
hath
bin
obtained
:
Therefore
the
name
of
Ladie
&
Mistresse
wherwith
you
intitle
me
,
is
to
high
and
proude
a
name
,
but
rather
call
me
handmaid
,
or
●eruile
slaue
,
for
on
thy
Noble
person
will
I
euermore
attend
:
It
is
not
Thrace
can
harbour
me
when
thou
art
absent
,
and
before
I
doo
forsake
thy
companie
and
kinde
fellowship
,
the
heauen
shall
be
no
heauen
▪
the
sea
no
sea
,
nor
the
earth
no
earth
:
but
if
thou
pro●est
vnconstant
,
as
Ninus
did
to
Scilla
,
who
for
hys
sake
stole
her
Fathers
purple
haire
,
whereon
depended
the
safetie
of
his
countrie
,
or
like
wandring
Aenaeas
flie
from
the
Quéene
of
Carthage
:
yet
shall
these
tender
handes
of
〈◊〉
which
neu●r
shal
vnclaspe
,
but
hang
vpon
thy
horse
bridle
,
till
my
bode
like
Thesius
sonnes
be
dasht
in
sunder
against
hard
flintie
stones
:
Therefore
forsake
me
not
deare
knight
of
Christendome
.
If
euer
Camma
was
true
to
her
Sinatus
,
or
euer
Alsione
to
her
Ce●x
,
so
Rossalinde
will
bee
to
thée
,
&
with
t●is
plighted
promise
shée
caught
him
fast
about
the
necke
,
from
whence
shee
would
not
vnclose
her
handes
,
till
he
had
vos●de
by
the
Honor
of
true
Chiualrie
,
to
make
her
sole
companion
,
and
onely
partner
in
hys
treuailes
,
and
so
after
this
order
it
was
accomplished
.
Thus
béeing
both
agréed
,
shee
was
most
trimlye
attired
like
a
Page
in
greene
sarcenet
,
her
hair●
bounde
vp
most
cunningly
with
a
silken
list
,
&
so
artificially
wrought
with
curious
knots
,
that
she
might
trauaile
without
suspition
or
blemmish
of
her
honour
,
her
Rapier
was
a
Turkish
blade
,
and
her
Po●●ard●
of
the
finest
fashion
,
the
which
shée
wore
at
her
backe
tyed
with
an
Orringe
tawnie
coloured
scarfe
,
beautefied
with
tassels
of
vnwouen
silke
,
her
Bus●●ns
of
the
smoothest
Kiddes
skinnes
,
her
Spurres
of
the
purest
Liddian
stéele
:
In
which
when
the
Noble
and
beautifull
Lady
was
attired
,
shee
séemed
in
stature
like
the
God
of
loue
,
when
he
sate
dandled
vpon
Didos
lap
,
or
rather
Ganemede
,
Ioues
minnion
,
or
Adonis
when
Venus
shewde
her
siluer
skin
,
to
intrappe
hys
eyes
to
her
vnchaste
desires
:
But
to
bée
briefe
,
all
thinges
béeing
got
in
readines
for
their
departure
from
Thrace
,
this
famous
worthie
Knight
mounted
vppon
hys
●ger
Stéede
,
and
〈◊〉
magnanimious
Rossalinde
on
her
gentle
Palfray
,
in
pace
more
easter
than
the
winged
windes
,
or
a
Cockbo●e
floting
vpon
the
Christall
streames
,
they
both
bid
adue
to
the
Countrie
of
Thracia
,
and
committed
their
iournie
to
the
Quéene
of
chaunce
:
Therefore
smile
heauens
and
guide
them
with
a
most
happie
starre
,
vntill
they
ariue
where
their
soules
doe
most
desire
.
The
brauest
and
boldest
Knight
that
euer
wandred
by
the
way
,
and
the
most
loueliest
Ladie
that
euer
anye
eye
beheld
:
In
whose
trauailes
my
Muse
must
lea●
them
for
a
season
,
and
speake
of
the
Thracian
mournes
,
which
by
this
time
had
watered
the
earth
with
abunda●ce
of
their
ceremonious
teares
,
and
made
the
elements
〈◊〉
witnesses
of
their
sad
laments
,
as
hereafter
followeth
in
thys
next
Chapter
.
CHAP.
VII
.
How
Saint
Andrew
the
Champion
of
Scotland
trauailed
into
a
vale
of
walking
Spirites
,
and
how
hee
was
set
at
libertie
,
by
a
going
fire
.
After
his
iournie
into
Thracia
,
where
he
recouered
the
six
Ladies
to
their
naturall
shapes
,
that
had
liued
seauen
yeares
in
the
likenes
of
milk-white
Swannes
,
with
other
accidents
that
befell
the
most
Noble
Champion
.
NOW
of
the
Honourable
aduentures
of
Saint
Andrew
the
famous
Champion
of
Scotland
must
I
discourse
,
whose
seauen
yeares
trauailes
were
as
straunge
as
any
of
the
other
Champions
:
For
after
hee
had
departed
from
the
Brazen
Piller
,
as
you
heard
in
the
beginning
of
the
Historie
.
He
trauailed
through
many
a
strange
and
vnknowne
Nation
,
beyond
the
cercuit
of
the
sunne
,
where
but
one
time
in
the
yere
she
shews
her
brightsome
beames
,
but
continually
darkenes
ouerspreads
the
countrie
,
&
there
is
a
kind
of
people
that
haue
heads
like
dogs
,
&
in
the
extreamity
of
hunger
doe
deuoure
one
another
:
from
which
people
this
Noble
Champion
was
woonderfull
strangelie
deliuered
,
or
after
he
had
wandred
some
certain
dayes
,
neither
seeing
●he
gladsome
brightnes
of
the
Sunne
,
nor
the
comfortabl●
countenance
of
the
Moone
,
but
only
guided
by
duskie
pale●es
of
the
elemen●s
,
he
hapned
to
a
vale
of
walking
spirits
:
which
he
supposed
to
bee
the
verie
dungeon
of
burning
A●●aron
:
For
there
he
heard
blowing
of
vnséene
fiers
,
boyling
of
furnases
,
ratling
of
Armour
,
trampling
of
horses
,
g●●●ling
of
chaines
,
l●mbring
of
t●bbes
,
roring
of
spirits
,
and
such
like
horrible
hearinges
,
that
it
made
the
Scottish
Champion
almost
at
hys
wits
end
:
But
yet
hauing
an
vndaunted
courage
,
exempting
all
feare
,
he
humblie
made
his
supplcation
to
heauen
,
that
God
woulde
deliuer
him
from
that
discontented
place
of
terrour
:
and
so
presently
as
the
Champion
knéeled
vpon
the
barren
ground
(
wheron
grew
neyther
hearbe
,
flower
,
grasse
,
nor
any
other
gréene
thing
,
)
he
beheld
a
certaine
flame
of
fire
walking
vp
and
downe
before
him
,
whereat
he
grew
into
such
an
extasie
of
feare
,
that
he
stood
for
a
time
amazed
whether
it
were
best
to
goe
forward
,
or
to
stand
still
:
But
yet
recalling
his
sences
,
he
remembred
himselfe
,
howe
hee
had
read
in
passed
times
of
a
going
fire
called
Ignis
fatuis
,
the
fire
of
destenie
,
or
some
Will
with
the
wispe
,
or
Will
with
the
lanthorne
,
&
likewise
by
some
simple
countrie
people
,
the
faire
maide
of
Ireland
,
which
commonly
vsed
to
lead
wandring
trauailers
out
of
their
wayes
.
The
like
imagination
entered
the
Champions
minde
:
So
encouraging
himselfe
with
hys
owne
conceits
,
and
chearing
vp
his
dull
sences
late
oppressed
with
exstreame
feare
,
he
directly
followed
the
going
fire
which
so
iustly
went
before
him
,
that
by
the
time
the
guider
of
the
night
had
climbed
twelue
degrées
in
the
zodiacke
,
hee
was
safelie
deliuered
from
the
vale
of
walking
spirits
,
by
the
direction
of
the
going
fire
.
Now
began
the
Sunne
to
daunce
about
the
firmament
,
which
he
had
not
séene
in
many
monthes
before
:
whereat
hys
dull
sences
so
much
reioyced
,
beeing
so
long
couered
before
with
darkenes
,
that
euerie
step
he
troad
was
as
pleasurable
,
as
though
he
had
walked
in
a
garden
bedeckt
with
all
kinde
of
fragrant
flowers
.
At
last
without
any
further
molestation
he
ariued
within
the
territories
of
Thracia
,
a
countrie
as
you
heard
in
the
former
Chapter
,
adorned
with
the
beautie
of
many
faire
Woodes
and
Forrestes
,
through
which
bee
trauailed
with
small
rest
,
but
lesse
sléepe
,
till
hee
came
to
the
foote
of
the
mountaine
,
wherevpon
stoode
the
Castell
wherein
the
wofull
King
of
Thrace
in
companie
of
hys
sorrowfull
subiects
,
still
lamented
the
vnhappie
destenies
of
hys
six
daughters
turnde
into
Swannes
,
with
Crownes
of
gold
about
their
neckes
:
But
when
the
valiant
Champion
Saint
Andrew
beheld
the
loftie
scittuation
of
the
Castell
,
and
the
inuincible
strength
it
séemed
to
be
of
,
expected
some
straunge
aduenture
to
befall
him
in
the
said
Castell
:
So
preparing
his
sword
in
readines
,
and
buckling
close
hys
Armour
,
which
was
a
shirt
of
siluer
maile
for
lightnes
in
trauaile
:
Hée
climbed
the
Mountaine
,
wherevpon
he
espied
the
Giant
lying
vpon
a
craggie
Rocke
,
with
limbes
and
members
all
to
be
rent
and
torne
,
by
the
furie
of
hunger
starued
foules
:
which
loathsome
spectakle
was
no
little
woonder
to
the
worthie
Champion
,
considering
the
mightie
stature
&
bignes
of
the
Giant
:
So
leauing
his
putrified
bodie
to
the
windes
,
he
approached
the
gates
:
where
after
he
had
read
the
superscription
ouer
the
same
,
without
any
interruption
entred
the
Castle
where
hee
expected
a
fierce
encounter
by
some
Knight
that
should
haue
defended
the
same
,
but
all
things
fell
out
contrary
to
his
imagination
,
for
after
he
had
found
many
a
straunge
nouelty
and
hidden
secrete
closed
in
the
same
,
chaunced
at
last
to
come
where
the
Thracians
duly
obserued
their
ceremonious
mournings
,
which
in
this
order
was
dayly
performed
:
for
vppon
sondayes
which
in
that
Country
is
the
first
day
in
the
wéeke
,
all
the
Thracians
attyred
themselues
after
the
manner
of
Bacchus
Priestes
,
and
burned
perfumed
incence
and
sweete
Arabian
francumsence
vpon
a
religious
shrine
which
they
offered
to
the
〈◊〉
as
chiefe
gouernour
of
that
day
,
thinking
thereby
to
appease
the
angrie
destenies
,
and
so
recouer
the
vnhappie
Ladies
to
their
former
shapes
:
vpon
Mundaies
clad
in
garments
after
the
manner
of
Syluanes
,
&
colour
like
to
the
waues
of
the
sea
,
they
offered
vp
their
wofull
teares
to
the
Moone
,
beeing
the
g●t●er
and
mistresse
of
that
day
:
vpon
Te●sdayes
like
Souldiers
trayling
their
Banners
on
the
dust
,
and
Drums
sounding
sad
and
dolefull
melody
in
signe
of
discontent
,
they
committed
their
proceedings
to
the
pleasure
of
Mars
,
beeing
ruler
and
guider
of
that
day
:
vppon
Wensday
like
schollers
vnto
Mercurie
:
vppon
Thursday
like
Potentates
to
Ioue
:
vpon
Fridayes
like
louers
with
sweet
sounding
Musicke
to
Venus
:
and
vpon
Saterdaies
like
Manuall
professors
to
the
angry
and
discontented
Saturne
.
Thus
the
wofull
Thracian
King
with
his
sorowful
subiects
,
consumed
seauen
months
away
,
one
while
accusing
fortune
of
dispite
,
another
while
the
heauens
of
iniustice
:
the
one
for
Childrens
transformations
,
the
other
for
their
long
limited
punishments
:
But
at
last
when
the
Scottish
Champion
heard
what
bitter
mone
the
Thracians
made
about
the
riuer
,
he
demaunded
the
cause
,
and
to
what
purpose
they
obserued
such
vaine
ceremonies
,
contemning
the
Maiestie
of
high
Iehoua
,
and
only
worshipping
but
outward
&
vaine
Gods
:
to
whome
the
King
after
a
few
sadde
teares
strained
from
the
Conduits
of
his
aged
eies
replied
in
this
manner
.
Most
noble
Knight
for
so
you
seeme
,
both
by
your
gesture
and
other
outward
appearance
,
(
quoth
the
King
,
)
if
you
desire
to
know
the
cause
of
our
continuall
griefe
,
prepare
your
eares
to
heare
a
tragicke
and
wofull
tale
,
whereat
I
sée
the
elements
begin
to
mourne
,
and
couer
their
azurde
countenance
,
with
sable
cloudes
.
These
milk-white
Swannes
you
sée
,
whose
neckes
be
beautified
with
golden
Crownes
,
are
my
sixe
naturall
Daughters
,
transformed
into
thys
Swan-like
substance
,
by
the
appointment
of
the
Gods
:
for
of
late
this
Castell
was
kept
by
a
cruell
Giant
named
B●āderon
,
who
by
violence
would
haue
rauished
them
:
But
the
heauens
to
preserue
their
chasteties
,
preuented
his
lustfull
desires
,
and
transformed
their
beautifull
features
to
those
milk-white
Swannes
:
And
nowe
seauen
times
the
chearefull
spring
hath
renewed
the
earth
with
a
S●mmers
liuerie
,
and
seauen
times
the
nipping
Winters
●●ostes
,
hath
bereaued
the
trées
of
leafe
and
bud
,
since
first
my
Daughters
lost
their
Uirgins
shapes
:
Seauen
sommers
haue
they
swamme
vpon
this
Christall
streame
:
where
in
stéede
of
ric●
attire
,
and
imbrothered
Uestments
,
the
smooth
siluer
coloured
feathers
adornes
their
comelie
bodies
:
Princelie
Pallaces
wherein
they
were
wont
like
vnto
tripping
Sea-nimphes
daunce
their
measures
vp
and
downe
,
are
now
exchanged
into
cold
streames
of
water
:
wherein
their
chiefest
m●lodi●
,
is
the
murmuring
of
the
liquid
bubbles
;
and
their
ioyfullest
pleasure
,
to
heare
the
harmonie
of
humming
Bees
,
which
the
Poets
ca●●
the
Muses
birds
.
Thus
haue
you
heard
most
worthie
Knight
the
rufull
Tragedies
of
my
Daughters
,
for
whose
sakes
I
will
spend
the
remnant
of
my
dayes
,
chearefully
complaining
of
their
long
appointed
punishments
,
about
the
Bankes
of
t●ys
vnhappie
riuer
.
Which
sad
discourse
béeing
no
sooner
ended
,
but
the
Scottish
Knight
(
hauing
a
minde
furnished
with
all
Princely
thoughts
,
&
a
tongue
washt
in
the
Fountaine
of
Eloquence
)
,
thus
replied
to
the
comfort
and
great
reioycing
of
all
the
companie
.
Most
noble
King
(
quoth
the
Champion
)
your
heauie
and
dolorous
discourse
,
hath
constrained
my
●eart
to
a
wonderfull
passion
,
and
compelled
my
very
soule
●o
●ue
your
Daughters
miseries
:
But
yet
a
greater
g●ief●
〈◊〉
a
déeper
sorrow
then
that
,
hath
taken
possession
in
my
〈◊〉
,
wherof
my
e●es
hath
bin
witnes
,
and
my
eares
vnhappy
●earers
of
your
misbeliefe
,
I
meane
your
vnchristian
faith
:
For
I
haue
séene
since
my
first
ariuall
into
th●s
same
Castell
your
prophane
&
vaine
worshipping
of
〈◊〉
and
fals●
Gods
,
as
to
Phoebus
,
Luna
,
Mars
,
Mercurie
,
and
such
like
Poeticall
names
,
which
the
Maiestie
of
high
Iehoua
vtterly
contemnes
:
but
magnificent
gouernour
of
Thracia
;
if
you
séeke
to
recouer
your
Daughters
happinesse
by
humble
praiers
,
and
to
obtaine
your
soules
content
by
true
teares
,
you
must
abandon
all
such
vaine
Ceremonies
,
and
with
true
humillity
beléeue
in
the
Christians
God
,
which
is
the
God
of
wonders
,
and
chiefe
commaunder
of
the
rouling
Elements
,
in
whose
quarrell
this
vndaunted
arme
,
and
this
vnconquered
hart
of
mine
shall
fight
:
and
now
be
it
known
to
thée
great
King
of
Thrace
,
that
I
am
a
Christian
Champion
,
and
by
byrth
a
Knight
of
Scotland
,
bearing
my
countries
Armes
vpon
my
breast
(
for
indéede
thereon
he
bore
a
siluer
Crosse
set
in
blue
silke
)
and
therefore
in
the
honour
of
Christendome
I
challenge
forth
thy
prowdest
Knight
at
Armes
,
against
whom
I
will
mayntaine
that
our
God
is
the
true
God
,
and
the
rest
fantasticall
and
vayne
cerem●nies
.
Which
sodaine
and
vnexspected
challenge
so
daunted
the
Thracian
Champions
that
they
stoode
amazed
for
a
time
;
gazing
one
vpon
another
,
like
men
dropt
from
the
cloudes
:
but
at
last
consulting
together
,
howe
the
challenge
of
the
strange
Knight
,
was
to
the
dishonour
of
their
Countrie
,
&
vtter
scandall
of
all
Knightly
dignitie
:
therefore
with
a
generall
consent
they
craued
leaue
of
the
King
that
the
challenge
might
bee
taken
,
who
as
willingly
condiscended
as
they
demaunded
:
●o
the
time
and
place
was
appoynted
which
was
the
next
morning
following
by
the
Kings
commandement
vpon
a
large
and
playne
meadowe
close
by
the
riuer
side
,
whereon
the
sixe
Swans
were
swimming
,
and
so
after
the
Christian
Champion
had
cast
downe
his
stéely
Gaun●let
and
the
Thracian
Knights
accepted
thereof
,
euery
one
departed
for
that
night
,
the
Challenger
to
the
E●st
side
of
the
Castell
to
his
lodging
,
and
the
Defendants
to
the
west
,
where
they
slept
quietly
till
the
next
morning
,
who
by
the
breake
of
day
were
wakened
by
a
Harrold
at
armes
,
but
all
the
passed
night
our
Scottish
Champion
neuer
●ntertaynde
one
motion
of
rest
,
but
busied
himselfe
in
trimming
his
horse
,
buckling
on
his
Armour
,
lacing
on
his
Burgonet
,
and
making
his
prayers
to
the
Diuine
Maiesty
of
God
for
the
conquest
and
victory
,
till
the
mornings
beauty
chaced
away
the
darkenes
of
the
night
,
but
no
sooner
was
the
windowes
of
the
day
fully
opened
,
but
the
valiant
and
Noble
minded
Champion
of
Christendome
entred
the
Li●t
,
where
the
King
in
company
of
the
Thracian
Lordes
were
present
to
beholde
the
Combat
:
and
so
after
saint
Andrew
had
twice
or
thrice
traced
his
horse
vp
&
downe
the
Listes
brauely
florishing
his
Launce
,
at
the
toppe
whereof
hung
a
pendant
of
golde
,
whose
Posie
was
thus
written
in
siluer
letters
:
This
day
a
Martyr
or
a
Conquerour
.
Then
entered
a
Knight
in
exceeding
bright
Armor
,
mounted
vpon
a
Courser
as
white
as
the
northerne
snow
whose
caparison
was
of
the
colour
of
the
elements
,
betwixt
whom
was
a
firc●
encounter
,
but
the
Thracian
had
the
foyle
,
and
with
disgrace
d●parted
the
Listes
:
Then
secondly
entred
another
Knight
in
Armor
varnished
with
greene
varnish
,
his
Stéede
of
the
colour
of
an
Iron
gray
,
who
likewise
had
the
repulse
by
the
worthie
Christian
:
Thirdly
entred
a
knight
in
a
blacke
cor●let
,
mounted
vpon
a
bi●
bonde
Palfray
,
couered
with
a
vale
of
sable
silk
,
in
his
hand
he
bore
a
Lance
n●●led
round
about
with
plates
of
stéele
:
which
Knight
amongst
the
Thracians
was
accounted
the
strongest
in
the
world
,
except
it
were
those
Giants
that
discended
from
a
monstrous
linnage
:
But
no
sooner
encountred
these
hardy
Champions
,
but
their
Launces
shiuered
in
sunder
,
and
flew
so
violently
into
the
Aire
,
that
it
much
amazed
the
beholders
:
Then
they
alighted
from
their
Steedes
,
and
so
valiantly
besturd
them
with
their
kéene
edged
Fauchions
,
that
the
fierie
sparkles
flew
as
fierc●ly
from
these
Noble
Champions
steelie
Helmets
,
as
from
an
Iron
Anuill
:
But
the
Combat
indured
not
verie
long
before
the
most
hardie
Scottish
Knight
espied
an
aduantage
,
wherein
he
might
shew
hys
matchles
fortitude
:
then
he
stroke
such
a
violent
bl●w
vpon
the
Thracians
Burgonet
,
that
it
cleaued
hys
head
iustly
downe
to
the
shoulders
:
whereat
the
King
sodainely
started
from
hys
seate
,
and
with
a
wrathfull
countenance
,
threatned
the
Champions
death
in
this
manner
.
Proude
Christian
(
said
the
King
)
thou
shalt
repent
hys
death
,
and
curse
the
time
that
euer
thou
camst
to
Thracia
:
hys
blood
we
will
reuenge
vpon
thy
head
,
and
quit
thy
committed
crueltie
with
a
sodaine
death
:
and
so
in
company
of
a
hundred
Armed
Knights
,
he
incompassed
the
Scottish
Champion
,
intending
by
multitudes
to
murder
him
:
But
when
the
valiant
Knight
Saint
Andrew
saw
how
hee
was
supprest
by
trecherie
,
and
inuironed
with
mightie
Troups
,
he
called
to
heauen
for
succour
,
and
annimated
him selfe
by
these
wordes
of
incouragement
:
Now
for
the
Honour
of
Christendome
,
this
day
a
Martyr
or
a
Conquerour
,
and
therewithall
he
so
valiantly
behaued
himselfe
with
his
trustie
Curtleaxe
,
that
he
made
Lanes
of
murthered
men
,
and
feld
them
downe
by
multitudes
,
like
as
the
haruest
man
doth
mo●●e
downe
eares
of
ripened
corne
:
whereby
they
fell
before
his
face
like
leaues
from
trées
,
when
the
Sommers
pride
declines
her
glorie
:
So
at
the
last
after
much
blood
shed
,
the
Thracian
King
was
compelled
to
yeeld
to
the
Scottish
Champions
mercie
,
who
swore
him
for
the
sauegarde
of
hys
life
,
to
forsake
his
prophaned
religion
and
become
a
Christian
,
whose
liuing
true
God
the
Thracian
king
vowde
for
euermore
to
worship
,
and
thereupon
hee
kist
the
Champions
sword
.
This
conuersion
of
the
Pagan
King
,
so
pleased
the
Maiestie
of
God
,
that
he
presently
gaue
end
to
his
Daughters
punishments
,
&
turned
the
Ladies
to
their
former
shapes
:
But
when
the
King
behelde
their
smooth
feathers
,
which
were
whiter
than
the
Lilly
,
exchanged
to
a
naturall
fairenes
,
&
that
their
blacke
bils
and
slender
necks
were
conuerted
to
their
first
created
beauties
,
(
where
for
excellent
faireles
,
the
Quéene
of
loue
might
builde
her
Parradice
,
)
bee
bad
adue
to
hys
griefe
and
long
continued
sorrowes
,
protesting
euer
hereafter
to
continue
a
true
Christian
for
the
Scottish
Champions
sake
:
by
whome
and
by
whose
diuine
Orrizons
hys
Daughters
obtained
their
former
features
:
So
taking
the
Christian
Knight
in
company
of
the
sixe
Ladies
,
to
an
excellent
rich
Chamber
,
prepared
with
al
thinges
according
to
their
wishes
:
where
first
the
Christian
Knight
was
vnarmed
,
then
his
woundes
washed
with
white
Wine
,
new
Milke
,
and
Rose-water
,
and
so
after
some
daintie
repast
,
conuayed
to
hys
nights
repose
.
The
Ladies
beeing
the
ioyfullest
creatures
vnder
heauen
,
neuer
entertainde
one
thought
of
sleepe
,
but
passed
the
night
in
their
Fathers
companie
,
(
whose
minde
was
rauished
with
vnspeakeable
pleasure
,
)
till
the
mornings
messengers
bad
them
good
morrow
.
Thus
all
thinges
being
prepared
in
a
readines
,
they
departed
the
Castell
,
not
like
mourners
to
a
heauie
Funerall
:
but
in
triumphing
manner
marching
backe
to
the
Thracian
Pallace
,
with
streaming
Banners
in
the
winde
.
Drums
and
Trumpets
sounding
ioyfull
melodie
,
and
with
sweet
inspiring
musicke
,
causing
the
aire
to
resound
with
harmony
:
But
no
sooner
were
they
entred
the
Pallace
,
(
which
was
in
distance
from
the
Giants
Castell
,
some
ten
miles
)
but
their
triumphes
turned
to
exceeding
sorrow
,
for
Rossalinde
with
the
Champion
of
Italie
as
you
heard
before
was
departed
the
Court
:
which
vnexpected
newes
so
daunted
the
whole
companie
,
but
especially
the
King
,
that
the
triumphes
for
that
time
were
deferred
,
and
messengers
dispatcht
in
pursute
of
the
aduenturous
Italian
,
and
the
●o●ely
Rossalinde
.
But
when
Saint
Andrew
of
Scotland
had
intelligence
,
how
it
was
one
of
the
Knights
that
was
imprisoned
with
him
vnder
the
subiection
of
the
wicked
〈…〉
Kalyb
,
as
you
heard
first
of
all
in
the
beginning
of
the
Historie
,
his
heart
thirsted
for
hys
most
Honourable
companie
,
and
hys
eyes
neuer
closed
quietly
,
nor
tooke
any
rest
at
all
vntill
hee
was
likewise
departed
in
the
pursute
of
hys
sworne
friend
,
which
was
the
next
night
following
,
without
making
any
acquainted
with
his
intent
:
likewise
when
the
six
Ladies
vnderstood
the
secret
departure
of
the
Scottish
Champion
,
whome
they
affected
dearer
than
any
Knight
in
all
the
world
,
stored
themselues
with
sufficient
treasure
,
and
by
stealth
tooke
their
iournie
from
their
Fathers
Pallace
:
intending
eyther
to
finde
out
the
victorious
and
approued
Knight
of
Scotland
,
or
to
end
their
liues
in
some
forraine
Region
.
The
rumor
of
whose
departure
,
no
sooner
came
to
the
Kinges
eares
,
but
he
purposed
the
like
trauaile
,
eyther
to
obtaine
the
sight
of
his
Daughters
againe
,
or
to
make
his
toombe
in
a
countrie
beyond
the
cercuite
of
the
Sunne
:
So
attyring
himselfe
in
a
homely
russet
,
like
a
Pilgrime
with
an
●bon
staffe
in
his
hand
tipt
with
siluer
,
tooke
his
iournie
all
vnknowne
from
hys
Pallace
,
whose
s●d●ine
and
secret
departure
,
stroke
such
an
extreame
&
intollerable
heauines
in
the
Court
,
that
the
Pallace
gates
were
sealed
vp
with
sorrow
,
and
the
walles
be-hung
with
sable
mourning
cloth
.
The
Thracian
Lordes
exempted
all
pleasure
,
and
like
a
flocke
of
shéep
strayed
vp
and
downe
without
a
shepheard
,
the
Ladies
and
Courtly
gentles
,
sate
sighing
in
their
priuate
chambers
:
where
we
leaue
them
for
this
time
,
&
speake
of
the
successe
of
the
other
Champions
,
and
howe
Fortune
smiled
on
their
aduenterous
procéedinges
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
How
Saint
Pattricke
the
Champion
of
Ireland
,
redeemed
the
six
Thracian
Ladies
out
of
the
handes
of
thirtie
bloodie
minded
Satiers
,
and
of
their
purposed
trauaile
in
the
pursute
after
the
Champion
of
Scotland
.
BUT
now
of
the
valiant
&
hardie
Knight
at
Armes
Saint
Pattrick
the
Champion
of
Ireland
must
I
speake
,
whose
aduenterous
accidents
were
so
Noblie
performed
,
that
if
my
pen
were
made
of
stéele
,
yet
should
I
weare
it
to
the
stumpes
,
sufficiently
to
declare
hys
prowesse
and
worthie
aduentures
.
When
he
departed
from
the
brazen
P●ller
,
from
the
other
Champions
,
the
heauens
smiled
with
a
kinde
aspect
,
and
sent
him
such
a
happie
starre
to
bée
hys
guide
,
that
it
lead
him
to
no
Courtly
pleasures
,
nor
to
vaine
delights
of
Ladies
beauties
,
but
to
the
throne
of
fame
,
where
honour
sate
instauld
vpon
a
seat
of
gold
:
Thether
trauailed
the
warlike
Champion
of
Ireland
,
whose
illustrious
battailes
the
northen
Iles
hath
Chronicled
in
leaues
of
brasse
:
therefore
Ireland
be
proude
,
for
from
thy
bowels
did
spring
a
Champion
,
whose
prowesse
made
the
enemies
of
Christ
to
tremble
,
and
watered
the
earth
with
streames
of
Pagans
blood
:
witnes
whereof
the
Ile
of
Rhodes
,
the
key
&
strength
of
Christendome
was
recouered
from
the
Turkes
,
by
hys
Martiall
and
inuincible
prowesse
:
where
hys
dangerous
battailes
,
fierce
encounters
,
bloodie
skirmishes
,
and
long
assaults
,
woulde
serue
to
fill
a
mightie
volume
,
all
which
I
passe
ouer
,
&
wholly
discours●
of
things
appertaining
to
this
History
:
for
〈…〉
warres
at
Rhodes
were
fully
ended
,
which
continued
some
two
yeares
the
worthy
Champion
saint
Pattricke
(
accounting
idle
ease
the
nurse
of
cowardise
)
bad
Rhodes
farewell
,
being
then
strongly
fortefied
with
Christian
Souldiers
,
and
tooke
his
iourney
thorough
many
an
vnknowne
Countrey
,
where
at
last
it
pleased
so
the
Quéene
of
chance
to
direct
his
steppes
into
a
solitary
wildernesse
,
inhabited
onely
by
wilde
Satyrs
,
and
a
people
of
inhumane
quallities
,
giuing
theyr
wicked
mindes
onely
to
murther
,
lust
and
rape
,
wherein
the
noble
Champion
trauelled
vp
and
downe
many
a
weary
steppe
,
not
knowing
how
to
sustaine
his
hunger
,
but
by
his
owne
industry
in
killing
of
wild
venison
,
and
pressing
out
the
blood
betwixt
two
mighty
stones
,
dayly
r●sted
it
by
the
heate
of
the
Sunne
,
his
lodging
was
in
the
hollow
truncke
of
a
blasted
trée
,
which
nightly
preserude
him
from
the
dropping
showres
of
heauen
,
his
chiefe
companion
was
the
swéete
resounding
eccho
,
which
commonly
reanswered
the
Champions
wordes
:
In
this
manner
liued
saint
Pattrick
the
Irish
Knight
in
the
woods
,
not
knowing
how
to
set
him selfe
at
liberty
,
but
wandring
vp
and
downe
as
it
were
〈◊〉
a
maze
wrought
by
the
curious
workemanship
of
some
excellent
Gardner
,
it
was
his
chaunce
at
last
to
come
into
a
dismall
shady
thicket
beset
about
with
bal●full
misselto
,
a
place
of
horror
wherein
he
heard
the
cryes
of
some
distressed
Ladies
,
whose
bitter
lamentations
seemd
to
pierce
▪
the
clowds
,
and
to
craue
succour
at
the
hands
of
God
,
which
vnexspected
cryes
not
a
little
daunted
the
Irish
Knight
:
so
that
it
causde
him
to
prepare
his
weapon
in
readines
,
against
some
sodain
incounter
:
So
couching
himselfe
close
vnder
the
roote
of
an
olde
withered
Oake
,
(
which
had
not
flourished
with
gréene
leaues
in
many
a
yeare
)
hee
espied
a
farre
off
a
crew
of
bloody
minded
Satyrs
,
hauling
by
the
hayre
the
sixe
vnhappy
Ladies
thorough
many
a
thorny
brake
and
bryer
,
whereby
the
beauty
of
theyr
crimson
chéekes
,
was
all
to
besprent
with
purple
gore
,
and
theyr
eyes
(
within
whose
cleare
glasses
one
might
behold
the
God
of
loue
dancing
)
all
to
be
rent
&
torne
by
the
fury
of
the
bryers
,
whereby
they
could
not
sée
the
light
of
heauen
,
nor
the
place
of
theyr
vnfortunate
abyding
:
which
wofull
spectacle
forced
such
a
terror
in
the
heart
of
the
Irish
Knight
,
that
he
presently
made
out
for
the
rescue
of
the
Ladies
,
against
the
bloody
fury
of
the
mercilesse
Satyrs
which
were
in
number
about
some
thirty
,
euery
one
hauing
a
mighty
clubbe
vpon
his
necke
,
which
they
had
made
with
roots
of
yong
Oakes
and
Pine
trées
,
yet
this
aduenterous
Champion
being
nothing
discouraged
,
but
with
a
bold
and
resolute
minde
he
let
driue
at
the
sturdiest
Satyr
,
whose
Armour
of
defence
was
made
of
a
Buls
hide
,
which
was
dryed
so
hard
against
the
Sunne
,
that
the
Champions
Curtle-axe
little
preuayled
:
after
which
the
fell
Satyrs
incompassed
the
Christian
Knight
round
about
,
and
so
mightely
opprest
him
with
downe
right
blowes
,
that
had
he
not
by
good
fortune
leapt
vnder
the
boughes
of
a
mighty
trée
,
his
life
had
béene
forst
to
giue
the
world
a
spéedy
farewell
:
But
such
was
his
nimblenes
and
actiue
pollicy
,
that
●re
long
he
sheathed
his
sharpe
pointed
Fauchion
in
one
of
the
Satyrs
breasts
,
which
wofull
sight
caused
all
the
rest
to
fly
from
his
presence
,
and
left
the
sixe
Ladyes
to
the
pleasure
&
disposition
of
the
most
Noble
and
couragious
Christian
Champion
.
Who
after
he
had
sufficiently
breathed
and
cooled
himself
in
the
chill
Ayre
(
being
almost
windles
through
the
long
incounter
and
bloody
Skyrmish
▪
)
he
demaunded
the
cause
of
the
Ladyes
trauels
,
and
by
what
meanes
they
hapned
into
the
handes
of
those
m●●ciless●
Satyrs
,
who
most
cruelly
and
tyrannically
attem●●ed
the
vtter
ruine
and
endlesse
spoyle
of
their
vnspotted
●●●ginity
:
To
which
curteous
demand
one
of
the
Ladies
a●●er
a
déepe
fetcht
sigh
or
two
(
being
constrained
from
the
b●●tome
of
her
most
sorrowfull
hart
)
in
the
behalfe
of
her selfe
and
the
other
distressed
Ladies
,
replied
in
this
order
.
redéemed
vs
distressed
Ladies
from
a
double
death
:
the
one
in
preseruing
our
chasteties
from
the
lustfull
desires
of
the
Satiers
,
the
other
in
sauing
our
liues
from
the
threatning
furies
of
the
monsters
.
Know
braue
minded
Knight
,
that
wee
are
the
vnfortunate
Daughters
of
the
King
of
Thrace
,
whose
liues
hath
béene
vnhappie
euer
since
our
creations
:
For
first
wee
did
indure
a
long
imprisonment
vnder
the
handes
of
a
cruell
Giant
,
and
after
the
heauens
to
preserue
our
Chasteties
from
the
wicked
desires
of
the
said
Gyant
,
transformed
vs
into
the
shape
of
Swans
,
in
which
likenes
we
remayned
seauen
yeares
,
but
at
last
recouered
by
a
worthy
Christian
Knight
,
named
S.
Andrew
the
Champion
of
Scotland
,
after
whom
we
haue
trauailed
many
a
wery
step
,
neuer
crost
by
any
violence
,
vntill
it
was
our
angry
fates
to
ariue
in
this
vnhappy
Wildernes
,
where
your
eyes
haue
béene
true
witnesses
of
our
wofull
misfortunes
:
Which
sad
discourse
béeing
no
sooner
finished
,
but
the
worthy
Champion
began
thus
to
comfort
the
distressed
Ladyes
.
The
Christian
Champion
after
whom
you
take
in
hand
this
wearie
trauaile
(
said
the
Irish
Champion
)
is
my
approoued
friend
,
for
whose
companie
and
wished
sight
,
I
wil
goe
more
weary
miles
,
than
there
be
trées
in
this
accursed
Wildernes
,
and
number
my
steppes
with
the
multitude
of
sands
hidden
in
the
seas
:
therefore
most
excellent
Ladies
,
true
ornaments
of
beautie
,
bee
sad
companions
in
my
trauailes
,
for
I
will
neuer
cease
til
I
haue
found
our
honorable
friend
the
Champion
of
Scotland
,
or
some
of
those
braue
Knightes
whome
I
haue
not
séene
these
seauen
Sommers
.
These
wordes
so
contented
the
sorrowfull
Ladies
,
that
without
any
exception
they
agréed
,
and
with
as
much
willingnes
consented
,
as
the
Champion
demaunded
:
So
after
they
had
recouered
their
sights
,
eased
their
wearines
,
and
cured
their
woundes
:
which
was
by
the
secret
vertues
of
certaine
hearbes
growing
in
the
same
woodes
,
tooke
their
iournies
anew
,
vnder
the
conduct
of
this
worthie
Champion
Saint
Pattrick
,
where
after
some
dayes
trauaile
,
obtained
the
fight
of
a
broade
beaten
way
,
where
committing
their
fortunes
to
the
fatall
sisters
,
and
setting
their
faces
toward
the
east
,
merrilie
iournied
together
:
In
whose
fortunate
trauailes
we
leaue
,
and
speake
of
the
seauenth
Christian
Champion
,
whose
aduenterous
exployts
and
Knightly
Honours
,
deserues
a
golden
pen
,
dipt
in
the
inke
of
true
Fame
to
discourse
at
large
.
CHAP.
IX
.
How
Saint
Dauid
the
Champion
of
Wales
slewe
the
Countie
Palatine
in
the
Tartarian
Court
,
and
after
howe
hee
was
sent
to
the
Inchaunted
Garden
of
Ormondine
,
wherein
by
Magicke
Art
he
slept
seauen
yeares
.
SAint
Dauid
the
most
Noble
Champion
of
Wales
,
after
his
departure
from
the
brazen
piller
where
as
the
other
Champions
of
Christendome
deuided
themselues
seuerally
,
to
séeke
for
forraine
aduentures
,
he
atchiued
many
memorable
thinges
,
as
well
in
Christendome
,
as
in
those
Nations
that
acknowledge
no
true
God
:
which
for
this
time
I
omit
,
and
only
discourse
what
hapned
vnto
him
amongst
the
Tartarians
:
For
béeing
in
the
Emperour
of
Tartaries
Court
(
a
place
very
much
honoured
with
valerous
Knights
,
and
highlie
grac●e
with
a
trayne
of
beauteous
Ladies
)
where
the
Emperour
vpon
a
time
ordayned
a
solemne
Ioust
and
Turnament
to
be
holden
in
the
honour
of
hys
birth
day
:
whether
resorted
at
the
time
appointed
,
(
from
all
the
borders
of
Tartarie
)
the
best
and
hardiest
Knights
there
remayning
:
In
which
honorable
&
Princely
exercise
,
the
Noble
Knight
Saint
Dauid
was
appointed
Champion
for
the
Emperour
,
who
was
mounted
vppon
a
Moroco
Steede
,
betrapped
in
a
rich
Caparison
,
wrought
by
the
curious
workmanship
of
the
Indian
women
,
vppon
whose
shield
was
set
a
golden
Griffon
rampant
in
a
fielde
of
blew
.
Against
him
came
the
Countie
Palatine
,
Sonne
&
heire
aparant
to
the
Tartarian
Emperour
,
brought
in
by
twelue
Knights
,
richly
furnished
with
all
habilliments
of
honour
,
and
paced
thrée
times
about
the
Lists
,
before
the
Emperor
and
many
Ladies
that
were
present
to
behold
the
honourable
Turnament
:
The
which
béeing
done
,
the
twelue
Knights
departed
the
Lists
,
and
the
Countie
Palatine
prepared
himselfe
to
encounter
with
the
Christian
Knight
:
being
then
appointed
chiefe
Champion
for
the
day
:
who
likewise
locked
downe
his
Beuer
,
and
at
the
Trumpets
sound
by
the
Harrolds
appointment
,
ran
so
fiercely
one
against
the
other
,
that
the
ground
seemed
to
thunder
vnder
them
,
&
the
skies
to
resounde
ecchoes
of
their
mighty
strokes
.
At
the
second
race
the
Champions
ran
,
Saint
Dauid
had
the
worse
,
&
was
constrained
through
the
forcible
strength
of
the
Countie
Palatine
,
to
fall
backwarde
almost
beside
hys
saddle
:
whereat
the
Trumpets
began
to
sound
in
signe
of
victorie
:
but
yet
the
valiant
Christian
nothing
dismayed
,
but
with
a
courage
(
within
whose
eyes
saie
Knightlie
reuenge
)
ran
the
third
time
against
the
County
Palatine
,
and
by
the
violent
force
of
hys
strength
,
he
ouerthrew
both
horse
&
man
,
wherby
the
Counties
body
was
so
exstreamly
brused
with
the
fall
of
hys
horse
,
that
hys
heart
blood
issued
foorth
from
hys
nostrels
,
and
hys
vitall
spirits
pressed
from
the
mancion
of
hys
breast
,
that
he
was
forced
to
giue
the
world
a
timeles
farewell
.
This
fatall
ouerthrow
of
the
Countie
Palatine
,
abashed
the
whole
company
:
but
especially
the
Tartarian
Emperour
,
who
hauing
no
more
sonnes
but
him
,
caused
the
Lists
to
be
broken
vp
,
the
Knights
to
be
vnarmed
,
and
the
murthered
Countie
to
bee
brought
by
foure
Squiers
into
hys
Pallace
:
where
after
he
was
dispoyled
of
hys
furniture
,
&
the
Christian
Knight
receaued
it
in
the
honour
of
hys
victorie
.
The
wofull
Emperour
bathed
the
Tartarians
bodie
with
teares
which
dropped
like
Christall
Pearles
vpon
his
congealed
blood
,
where
after
many
sadde
sighs
hee
breathed
forth
this
wofull
lamentation
.
Now
are
my
triumphs
turnd
to
euerlasting
woes
,
from
a
commicall
pastime
,
to
a
dierefull
and
bloody
tragedy
:
O
most
vnkinde
fortune
,
neuer
constant
but
in
change
!
Why
is
my
life
deferde
to
sée
the
downefall
of
my
deare
Son
,
the
Noble
County
Palatine
?
why
rends
not
this
accursed
earth
whereon
I
stand
,
and
presently
swallow
vp
my
body
into
her
hungrie
bowels
:
Is
this
the
vse
of
Christians
for
true
Honour
,
to
repay
dishonour
,
could
no
bace
blood
serue
to
staine
hys
deadly
handes
withall
,
but
with
the
precious
blood
of
my
deare
Sonne
,
in
whose
reuenge
the
face
of
the
heauens
is
stained
with
blood
,
and
cryes
for
vengeaunce
to
the
Maiesty
of
high
eternall
Ioue
,
the
dreadfull
furies
,
the
direfull
daughters
of
darke
night
,
and
all
the
balefull
companie
of
burning
Acharon
,
whose
loynes
be
girt
with
Serpents
,
and
haire
be
hangde
with
wreathes
of
Snakes
▪
shall
haunt
,
pursue
and
followe
tha●
a●cursed
Chrstian
Champion
,
that
hath
bereaued
my
Countrie
Tartarie
,
of
so
precious
a
Iewell
as
my
deare
Sonne
the
Countie
Palatine
was
,
whose
magnanimious
prowesse
,
did
surpasse
all
the
Knights
of
our
Countrie
.
Thus
sorrowed
the
wofull
Emperour
for
the
death
of
his
Noble
sonne
:
sometimes
making
the
ecchoes
of
his
lamentations
pearce
the
elements
:
another
while
forcing
his
bitter
curses
to
sinke
to
the
déepe
foundation
of
Acharon
:
one
while
intending
to
bée
reuenged
vpon
Saint
Dauid
the
Christian
Champion
,
then
presently
his
intent
was
crost
with
a
contrary
imagination
,
that
it
was
against
the
Lawe
of
Armes
,
and
a
great
dishonour
to
his
Country
,
by
violence
to
oppresse
a
strange
Knight
,
whose
actions
hath
euer
béene
guided
by
true
honour
,
but
yet
at
last
this
firme
resolution
entred
into
his
minde
.
There
was
adioyning
vppon
the
borders
of
Tartary
,
an
inchaunted
garden
kept
by
Magicke
art
,
from
whence
neuer
any
returned
that
attempted
to
enter
;
the
Gouernour
of
which
garden
was
a
notable
and
famous
Nigromancer
named
Ormondine
,
to
which
Magitian
the
Tartarian
Emperour
intended
to
sende
the
aduenterous
Champion
saint
Dauid
,
thereby
to
reuenge
the
County
Pallatines
death
:
So
the
Emperour
after
some
fewe
dayes
passed
▪
and
the
Obsequies
of
his
sonne
being
no
sooner
perfourmed
▪
but
he
caused
the
Christian
Knight
to
be
brought
into
his
presente
,
to
whom
he
committed
this
heauy
taske
and
weary
labour
.
Proude
Knight
(
sayd
the
angry
Emperour
)
thou
knowest
since
thy
ariuall
into
our
Territories
howe
highly
I
haue
honoured
thee
,
not
onely
ingraunting
liberty
of
life
,
〈◊〉
making
thée
chiefe
Champion
of
Tartarie
,
which
high
honour
thou
haste
repaide
with
great
ingratitude
,
and
blemished
true
Nobilitie
,
in
acting
of
my
deare
sonnes
Tragedy
:
For
which
vnhappie
déede
thou
rightly
haste
deserued
death
:
But
yet
know
accursed
Christian
,
that
mercie
harboureth
in
a
Princely
minde
,
and
where
honour
sits
inthronize●
,
there
Iustice
is
not
too
seuere
.
Although
thou
hast
deserued
death
:
yet
if
thou
wilt
aduenture
to
the
Inchaunted
garden
,
and
bring
hether
the
Magitians
head
,
I
graunt
thée
not
only
thy
life
,
but
therewithall
the
Crowne
of
Tartarie
after
my
discease
:
because
I
sée
then
haste
a
minde
furnished
with
all
Princely
thoughtes
,
and
adornde
with
true
Magnanimitie
.
This
heauie
taske
,
and
strange
aduenture
,
not
a
little
pleased
the
Noble
Champion
of
Wales
,
whose
minde
euer
thirsted
after
straunge
aduentures
:
and
so
after
some
considerate
thoughts
,
in
this
manner
he
replied
.
Most
high
and
magnificent
Emperour
(
said
the
Champion
)
were
this
taske
which
you
inioyne
me
to
,
as
wonderfull
as
the
labors
of
Hercules
,
or
as
fearefull
as
the
interprise
which
Iason
made
for
the
golden
●le●ee
:
yet
would
I
attempt
to
finish
and
returne
with
more
triumph
to
Tartarie
,
than
the
Macedonian
Monark●
did
to
Babilon
,
when
he
had
conquered
the
Angels
of
the
world
:
Which
words
béeing
no
sooner
ended
,
but
the
Emperour
〈…〉
by
hys
oath
of
Knighthood
,
and
by
the
loue
he
beares
vnto
hys
natiue
countrie
,
neuer
to
follow
any
other
aduenture
,
till
he
had
performed
hys
promise
,
which
was
to
bring
th●
Magitian
Ormondines
head
into
Tartarie
:
And
so
the
Emperour
departed
from
the
Noble
Knight
Saint
Dauid
,
〈…〉
●●uer
to
sée
him
returne
,
●ut
rather
●eare
his
vtter
confusion
,
or
euerlasting
imprisonment
.
Thus
this
valiant
Christian
Champion
,
being
bounde
to
a
heauie
taske
,
within
thrée
dayes
prepares
all
necessaries
in
readines
for
hys
departure
:
and
so
trauailed
westward
,
till
he
approach
to
the
sight
of
the
Inchaunted
Garden
,
the
scittuation
whereof
somewhat
daunted
his
valiant
courage
:
for
it
was
incompassed
with
a
hedge
of
withered
thornes
,
and
briers
,
which
séemed
continually
to
burne
:
vpon
the
toppe
thereof
,
sate
a
number
of
straunge
and
deformed
thinges
,
some
in
the
likenes
of
night
Owles
,
that
woondered
at
the
presence
of
Saint
Dauid
:
some
in
the
shape
of
Progines
transformation
,
foretelling
hys
infortunate
successe
:
and
some
like
Rauens
,
that
with
their
harsh
throuts
ring
foorth
a
balefull
knell
of
some
wofull
Tragedie
:
the
elements
which
couered
the
Inchaunted
Garden
,
séemed
to
bee
●uerspread
with
〈…〉
,
from
whence
continually
shot
●●ames
of
fire
,
as
though
the
skies
had
bin
●●led
with
blazing
Commets
:
which
〈…〉
,
or
rather
the
very
patterne
of
hell
,
stroke
such
a
terror
into
the
Champions
hart
,
that
twice
he
was
in
minde
to
returne
without
performing
the
aduenture
;
but
for
hys
oath
and
Honor
of
Knighthood
,
which
he
had
pawnde
for
the
accomplishment
thereof
:
So
laping
hys
body
on
the
bare
earth
,
beeing
the
first
nurse
and
mother
of
his
life
,
her
made
hys
humble
petition
to
God
,
that
hys
minde
might
be
neuer
opprest
with
cowardize
,
nor
his
heart
daunted
with
any
faint
feare
,
till
he
had
performed
what
the
Tartarian
Emperour
had
bound
him
to
,
the
Champion
rose
from
the
ground
,
and
with
chearefull
lookes
beheld
the
elements
,
which
seemed
at
hys
conceit
to
smile
at
the
enterprise
,
and
to
foreshew
a
luckie
euent
.
So
the
Noble
Knight
Saint
Dauid
with
a
valiant
courage
went
to
the
Garden
gate
,
by
which
stoode
a
Rocke
of
stone
,
ouerspread
with
mosse
:
In
which
Rock
by
Magicke
Art
was
inclosed
a
sworde
,
nothing
outwardly
appearing
but
the
h●●t
,
which
was
the
richest
to
hys
iudgement
that
euer
hys
eyes
beheld
,
for
the
steele
worke
was
ingraued
very
curiously
,
beset
with
Iasper
and
Saphier
stones
,
the
pummell
was
in
the
fashion
of
a
Globe
,
of
the
purest
siluer
that
euer
the
mines
of
rich
America
brought
foorth
:
about
the
pummell
was
ingrauen
in
Letters
of
gold
these
verses
following
.
My
Magicke
spels
,
remaines
most
firmely
bound
,
The
worlds
straunge
woonder
vnknowne
by
any
one
:
Till
that
a
Knight
within
the
North
be
founde
,
To
pull
this
sword
from
out
this
Roc●
of
stone
:
Then
ends
my
charmes
,
my
Magicke
Arts
and
all
,
By
whose
strong
hand
,
wise
Ormondine
must
fall
.
These
verses
draue
such
a
conceited
Imagination
into
the
Champions
minde
,
that
hee
supposed
himselfe
to
bée
the
Northen
Knight
,
by
whome
the
Nigromancer
should
bée
conquered
:
Therefore
without
anye
further
aduisement
he
put
hys
hand
into
the
hilt
of
the
rich
swor●e
,
thinking
presently
to
pull
it
out
from
the
Inchaunted
Rocke
of
Ormondine
:
But
no
sooner
did
hee
attempt
that
vaine
enterprise
,
but
hys
valiant
courage
and
inuincible
fortitude
fayled
him
,
&
all
hys
sences
was
ouer
taken
with
a
sodayne
&
heauie
sléepe
,
whereby
he
was
forced
to
let
goe
hys
hold
,
and
to
fall
flatte
vppon
the
barraine
ground
,
where
hys
eyes
were
so
fast
locked
vp
by
Magicke
Arte
,
and
hys
wa●ing
sences
drowned
in
such
a
dead
●●umber
,
that
it
was
as
much
impossible
to
recouer
himselfe
from
hys
sléepe
,
as
to
pull
the
●unne
out
of
the
firmament
:
For
through
the
secret
misterie
of
the
Nigromancers
skill
,
hee
had
intelligence
of
the
Champions
vnfortunate
successe
:
who
sent
from
the
Inchaunted
garden
foure
spirits
,
in
the
similitude
and
likenes
of
foure
beautifull
Damsels
,
which
wrapped
the
drousie
Champion
in
a
shéete
of
the
finest
Arabian
silke
,
and
conuayed
him
into
a
Caue
,
directly
placed
in
the
middle
of
the
Garden
,
where
they
laide
him
vpon
a
soft
bed
,
more
softer
than
the
downe
of
Culuers
:
where
these
beautifull
Ladi●s
through
the
Artes
of
wicked
Ormondine
,
continually
kept
him
sléeping
for
the
tearme
of
seauen
yeares
:
one
while
singing
with
sugered
songes
,
more
swéeter
and
delightfuller
than
the
Syrens
mellodie
:
another
while
with
rare
conceited
Musicke
,
surpassing
the
swéetnes
of
Arions
Harpe
,
which
made
the
mightie
Dolphins
in
the
Seas
,
to
daunce
at
the
sounde
of
hys
swéet
inspiring
Melodie
:
or
like
the
Harmonie
of
Orpheus
when
he
iournied
downe
into
hell
,
where
the
diuelles
reioyst
to
heare
hys
admired
notes
,
and
on
earth
both
●rées
and
stones
did
leap
when
he
did
but
touch
the
siluer
stringes
of
hys
Iuorie
Harpe
.
Thus
was
Saint
Dauids
aduenture
crost
with
a
w●onderfull
bad
successe
,
whose
dayes
trauailes
was
turned
into
a
nights
repose
:
whose
nights
repose
,
was
made
a
heauy
sléepe
,
which
indured
vntill
seauen
yeares
were
fullie
finished
:
where
wee
le●●e
Saint
Dauid
to
the
mercie
of
the
Nigromancer
Ormondine
sleeping
,
and
returne
now
to
the
most
Noble
and
magnanimious
Champion
S.
George
,
where
we
left
him
imprisoned
in
the
S●ldans
Court
:
But
now
gentle
Reader
thou
wilt
thinke
it
straunge
,
that
all
these
Christian
Champions
should
meete
together
agayne
,
〈◊〉
that
they
bee
seperated
into
so
many
borders
of
the
world
:
For
Saint
Dennis
the
Champion
of
Fraunce
,
〈◊〉
maineth
now
in
the
Court
of
Thessalie
,
with
hys
Ladie
Eglantine
:
Saint
Iames
the
Champion
of
Spaine
,
in
the
Citty
of
Ciuell
with
Celestine
,
the
faire
Lady
of
Ierusalem
:
Saint
Anthonie
the
Champion
of
Italie
,
trauailing
the
world
,
in
the
companie
of
a
Thracian
maiden
,
attired
in
a
Pages
apparrell
:
Saint
Andrew
the
Champion
of
Scotland
,
séeking
after
the
Italian
:
Saint
Pattricke
the
Champion
of
Ireland
,
after
the
Champion
of
Scotland
,
Saint
Dauid
of
Wales
,
sléeping
in
the
Inchaunted
garden
adioyning
to
the
Kingdome
of
Tartarie
,
and
Saint
George
the
famous
Champion
of
England
,
imprisoned
in
Persia
:
of
whome
,
and
of
whose
noble
aduentures
,
I
must
a
while
discourse
,
till
the
honoured
Fame
of
the
other
Champions
,
compelles
mée
to
report
their
Noble
and
Princelie
atchiuementes
.
CHAP.
X.
How
Saint
George
escaped
out
of
prison
at
Persia
,
and
how
he
redeemed
the
Champion
of
Wales
from
his
Inchauntment
,
with
other
thinges
that
hapned
to
the
English
Knight
,
with
the
Tragicall
tale
of
the
Nigromancer
Ormondine
.
NOW
seauen
times
had
frosty
bearded
winter
couered
both
hearbes
and
flowers
with
snow
,
&
behung
the
trées
with
Christall
I
sickles
,
seauen
times
had
Ladie
Vir
beautified
euerie
field
with
natures
ornaments
,
and
seauen
times
had
withered
Autum
robbed
the
earth
of
springing
flowers
,
since
the
vnfortunate
Saint
George
beheld
the
chearefull
light
of
heauen
,
but
obscurely
liued
in
a
dismall
dungeon
,
by
the
Soldan
of
Persias
commaundement
,
as
you
heard
before
in
the
beginning
of
the
Historie●
His
vnhappy
fortune
so
discontented
hys
rest●es
thoughtes
,
that
a
thousand
times
a
yeare
he
wisht
an
end
of
his
life
,
&
a
thousand
times
he
cursed
the
day
of
his
creation
,
his
sigh●
in
number
did
counteruaile
a
heape
of
sand
,
whose
top●●
might
séeme
to
reach
the
skies
,
the
which
he
vainely
breathed
forth
against
the
walles
of
the
Prison
:
Many
times
making
his
humble
supplication
to
the
heauens
,
to
redéeme
him
from
that
vale
of
miserie
,
and
many
times
séeking
occasion
desperatly
to
abridge
hys
dayes
,
whereby
to
triumph
in
hys
owne
Tragedie
.
But
at
last
when
seauen
yeares
were
fully
ended
,
it
was
the
Champions
luckie
fortune
to
finde
in
a
secret
corner
of
the
dungeon
,
a
certaine
Iron
Engin
,
which
time
had
almost
consumed
with
rust
:
wherwith
by
long
labor
,
he
digged
himselfe
a
passage
vnder
the
ground
,
till
he
ascended
iust
in
the
middle
of
the
Soldans
Court
,
which
was
at
that
time
of
the
night
when
all
thinges
were
silent
:
the
heauens
hée
then
beheld
beautified
with
stats
,
&
bright
Cinthia
,
whose
glistering
beames
he
had
not
séene
in
many
a
hundred
nights
before
séemed
to
smile
at
hys
safe
deliuerie
,
and
to
stay
her
wandring
course
till
the
noble
English
Champion
found●
meanes
to
get
without
the
compasse
of
the
Persian
Cours
,
where
danger
might
no
longer
attend
him
,
nor
the
strong●
Gates
of
the
Cittie
hinder
hys
flight
,
which
in
this
manner
was
performed
:
For
the
Noble
Knight
b●●ing
as
fearefull
as
the
Birde
newlie
escaped
from
the
Fowlers
nets
,
gazed
round
about
,
and
listned
where
he
might
heare
the
voice
of
people
:
At
last
he
heard
the
Groomes
of
the
Soldans
stable
,
furnishing
forth
Horses
against
the
next
morning
for
some
Noble
atchiuement
:
then
the
valiant
Champion
S.
George
taking
the
Iron
Engin
,
wherewith
hee
redéemed
himself
out
of
prison
&
burst
open
the
dores
,
where
he
slew
all
the
Groomes
in
the
Soldans
stable
,
which
béeing
done
hée
tooke
the
strongest
Palfray
,
and
the
richest
furniture
,
with
other
necessaries
appertayning
to
a
Knight
at
Armes
,
&
so
rode
in
great
maiestie
to
one
of
the
Citty
Gates
,
where
hee
saluted
the
Porter
in
this
manner
.
Porter
,
open
thy
Gates
,
for
S.
George
of
England
is
escaped
,
&
hath
murdered
his
warders
,
in
whose
pursute
the
Citty
is
in
Armes
:
which
wordes
the
simple
Persian
beléeued
for
a
truth
,
and
so
with
all
spéede
opened
the
Gates
,
whereat
the
Champion
of
England
departed
and
left
the
Soldan
in
hys
dead
s●éepe
,
little
mistrusting
hys
sodaine
escape
.
But
by
that
time
the
purple
spotted
morning
had
parted
with
her
gray
,
and
the
Suns
bright
countenaunce
appeared
on
the
mountaine
toppes
,
Saint
George
had
ridden
twentie
leagues
from
the
Persian
Court
,
and
before
hys
departure
was
bru●ed
in
the
Soldans
Pallace
,
the
English
Champion
had
recouered
the
sight
of
Grecia
,
past
all
danger
of
the
Persian
Knights
,
that
followed
him
with
a
swift
pursute
:
By
which
time
the
extreamity
of
hunger
so
sharpely
tormented
him
,
that
he
could
trauaile
no
further
,
but
was
constrained
to
suffise
himselfe
with
certayne
wilde
Chesnuts
in
stead
of
bread
,
and
sewer
oringes
in
stead
of
drinke
,
&
such
fainte
food
that
grew
by
the
wayes
as
he
trauelled
,
where
the
necessity
and
want
of
victualles
compelled
the
Noble
Knight
Saint
George
to
breath
forth
this
pittifull
complaint
.
O
hunger
,
hunger
,
(
said
the
Champion
)
thou
art
more
sharper
than
the
stroake
of
death
,
and
the
extreamest
punishment
that
euer
man
indured
:
if
I
were
now
King
of
Armenia
&
cheife
Potentate
of
Asia
,
yet
would
I
giue
my
Diadem
my
Scepter
with
al
my
pr●uinces
for
one
shiuer
of
browne
breade
oh
that
the
earth
would
be
so
kind
,
as
to
rippe
hir
bowells
,
and
to
cast
vp
some
food
,
to
sustaine
my
want
,
or
that
the
ayre
might
bée
choakt
with
mistes
,
whereby
the
fethered
foules
for
want
of
breath
might
fall
and
yeald
me
some
succour
in
this
my
●●nishment
,
and
exstreame
penurye
,
or
that
the
Oceans
would
outspread
their
braunched
armes
and
couer
those
sunburnd
●●llyes
with
their
treasures
,
that
I
might
suffice
my
hunger
:
but
now
I
sée
both
heauen
and
earth
,
the
hilles
and
da●es
,
the
skyes
and
seas
,
the
fish
and
foules
,
the
birdes
and
Siluan●
beastes
,
&
all
things
vnder
the
cope
of
heauen
,
conspires
my
vtter
ouerthrow
:
better
had
it
béene
it
I
had
●●ded
my
dayes
in
Persia
,
than
to
bee
famish●●
in
the
broa●●
〈…〉
wh●●e
all
things
by
natures
appointment
is
ordained
for
mans
vse
:
now
in
stéed
of
Courtly
dillicates
,
I
am
forced
to
eat
the
fruit
of
trées
,
and
in
stéed
of
Gréekish
wines
,
I
am
compelled
to
quench
my
thirst
with
the
mornings
dew
,
that
nightly
falles
〈◊〉
the
blades
of
grasse
.
Thus
complained
Saint
George
,
vntill
glistering
Phoebus
had
mounted
the
top
of
heauen
,
and
drawen
the
mistie
vapors
from
the
ground
,
where
hee
might
behold
the
prospects
of
Grecia
,
and
which
way
to
trauaile
for
most
safetie
,
he
espied
directly
before
his
face
a
Tower
standing
vpon
a
chalkie
clift
,
in
distance
from
him
some
thrée
miles
,
whether
the
Champion
intended
to
goe
,
not
to
séeke
for
any
aduenture
,
but
to
rest
himselfe
after
hys
long
iournie
,
&
to
get
such
victuals
as
therein
hee
could
finde
to
suffice
his
want
.
So
setting
forward
with
an
easie
pace
,
the
heauens
séemed
to
smile
,
and
the
birds
to
ring
such
a
cherping
peale
of
mellodie
,
as
though
they
did
prognosticate
a
fortunate
euent
:
The
way
he
found
so
plaine
,
and
the
iournie
so
easie
,
that
within
halfe
an
houre
hee
approached
before
the
saide
Tower
:
where
vpon
the
wall
st●●de
a
most
beautifull
woman
,
her
attire
after
the
manner
of
a
distressed
Ladie
,
and
her
lookes
as
heauie
as
the
Quéenes
of
Troy
,
when
she
beheld
her
Pallace
set
on
fire
.
The
valiant
Knight
S
:
George
,
after
he
had
alighted
from
his
horse
,
he
gaue
her
this
curteous
saluta●ion
.
Lady
(
said
the
Knight
)
for
so
you
séeme
by
your
outward
appearance
,
if
euer
you
pittied
a
trauailer
,
〈◊〉
graunted
succour
to
a
Chrstian
Knight
,
giue
to
mee
one
me●
le●
meate
,
n●w
almost
famished
:
To
whome
the
Lady
after
a
●urst
frowne
or
two
,
answered
him
in
this
order
.
Sir
Kn●ght
(
quoth
shée
)
I
aduise
thée
with
all
spéede
to
depart
,
for
here
thou
gets
a
cold
dinner
▪
my
Lord
is
a
mightie
Giant
,
and
beleeueth
in
Mahomet
,
●
Terinag●unt
,
and
if
he
onc●
vnderstand
how
thou
art
a
Christian
Knight
:
●t
is
not
all
the
gold
of
higher
India
,
nor
the
riches
of
wealthy
Babilon
that
can
preserue
thy
life
.
Now
by
the
honour
of
my
Knighthood
,
(
replied
Saint
George
)
and
by
the
God
that
Christendome
adores
:
were
thy
Lord
more
stronger
than
was
mightie
Hercules
,
that
bore
a
mountaine
on
hys
backe
:
here
will
I
either
obtaine
my
〈◊〉
,
or
die
by
hys
accursed
hands
.
These
wordes
so
abashed
the
Lady
,
that
shee
went
with
all
speed
from
the
Tower
,
and
told
the
Gyant
how
a
Christian
Knight
remayned
at
hys
Gate
,
that
had
sworne
to
suffice
hys
hunger
in
dispite
of
hys
will
:
whereat
the
furious
Gyant
sodainely
started
vp
,
béeing
as
then
in
a
sound
sléepe
,
for
it
was
at
the
middle
of
the
day
:
who
tooke
a
bat
of
Iron
in
hys
hand
,
and
came
downe
to
the
Tower
Gate
:
his
stature
was
in
haight
fiue
yeardes
:
hys
heade
brisled
like
a
Bores
,
a
foote
there
was
betwixt
each
brow
,
his
eies
hollow
,
hys
mouth
wide
,
hys
lippes
were
like
two
flaps
of
steele
,
in
all
proportion
more
like
a
diuell
than
a
man
:
Which
deformed
monster
so
daunted
the
courage
of
Saint
George
,
that
he
prepared
himselfe
to
death
:
not
through
feare
of
the
monstrous
Gyant
,
but
for
hunger
and
féeblenes
of
body
:
but
God
so
prouided
for
him
,
and
so
restored
the
Champions
decayed
strength
,
that
hee
indured
battaile
till
the
closing
vp
of
the
Euening
,
by
which
time
the
Gyant
was
almost
blinde
,
through
the
sweate
that
ran
down●
from
hys
monstrous
browes
,
whereby
Saint
George
had
the
aduantage
,
and
wounded
the
Giant
so
cruelly
vnder
the
short
ribs
,
that
hee
was
compelled
to
fall
to
the
ground
,
and
to
giue
end
to
hys
life
.
After
which
happie
euent
of
the
Gyants
slaughter
,
the
inuincible
Champion
Saint
George
:
first
gaue
the
honour
of
hys
victorie
to
God
,
in
whose
power
all
hys
fortune
consisted
:
Then
entering
the
Tower
,
whereas
the
Lady
presented
him
with
all
manner
o●
dillicates
,
and
pure
wines
:
but
the
English
Knight
inspecting
some
trecherie
to
be
hidden
in
her
proffered
curtesie
,
caused
the
Ladie
first
to
taste
of
euerie
daintie
dish
:
Likewise
of
his
wine
,
lest
some
violent
poyson
shoulde
bee
therein
commixt
:
So
●●nding
all
thinges
pure
and
halsome
as
nature
required
,
hee
suffized
hys
hunger
,
rested
hys
wearie
body
,
and
refreshed
his
horse
:
And
so
leauing
the
Tower
in
kéeping
of
the
Ladie
,
he
committed
hys
fortune
to
a
new
trauaile
:
where
hys
reui●ed
spirits
neuer
entertained
longer
rest
,
but
to
the
refreshing
of
himselfe
and
hys
horse
:
So
trauailed
he
through
the
parts
of
Grecia
,
the
confines
of
Phrigia
,
and
so
into
the
borders
of
Tartarie
,
within
whose
Territories
he
had
not
long
iournied
,
but
he
approached
the
sight
of
the
Inchaunted
Garden
of
Ormondine
,
where
S.
Dauid
the
Champion
of
Wales
had
so
long
slept
by
Magicke
Art
.
No
sooner
did
he
behold
the
woonderfull
scituation
thereof
,
but
hee
espied
Ormondines
sword
inclosed
in
the
Inchaunted
Rocke
:
where
after
he
had
read
the
superscription
written
about
the
pummell
,
he
assaied
to
pull
it
out
by
strength
:
where
he
no
sooner
put
hys
hand
into
the
hilt
,
but
he
drew
it
forth
with
much
ease
,
as
though
it
had
béene
hung
but
by
a
thred
of
vntwisted
silke
:
but
when
hee
beheld
the
glistring
,
brightnesse
of
the
blade
,
and
the
wonderfull
richnes
of
the
pummell
,
hee
accounted
the
prize
more
worth
than
the
Armour
of
Achilles
,
which
caused
Aiax
to
runne
mad
,
and
more
richer
than
Medeas
golden
Fléece
:
But
by
that
time
Saint
George
had
circumspectly
lookt
into
euerie
secret
of
the
sword
,
he
heard
a
straunge
and
dismall
voice
thunder
in
the
skyes
,
a
tyrrible
&
mighty
lumbring
in
the
earth
,
whereat
both
hils
&
mountaines
shooke
,
Rockes
remooued
,
and
huge
Oakes
rent
into
péeces
:
After
this
the
Gates
of
the
Inchaunted
Garden
flew
open
,
whereat
incontinently
came
foorth
Ormondine
the
Magitian
,
with
hys
haire
staring
on
hys
head
,
hys
eyes
sparckling
,
hys
chéekes
blushing
,
hys
hands
quiuering
hys
legs
trembling
,
and
all
the
rest
of
hys
body
distempered
,
as
though
legions
of
spirits
had
incompast
him
about
:
he
came
directly
to
the
worthy
English
knight
that
remayned
still
by
the
Inchaunted
Rock●
,
from
whence
hee
had
pulled
the
Magitians
sword
,
where
after
the
Nigromancer
had
sufficiently
beheld
hys
Princely
countenance
,
whereon
true
honour
sate
inthronized
,
and
viewed
hys
portly
personage
,
the
Image
of
true
Knighthood
,
the
which
séemed
in
the
Magitians
eyes
,
to
be
the
rarest
work
that
euer
nature
framed
:
First
taking
the
most
valiant
and
magnanimious
Champion
Saint
George
of
England
by
the
steélie
Gauntlet
,
and
with
great
humilitie
kissed
it
,
then
proffering
him
the
curtesies
due
vnto
strangers
,
which
was
perfourmed
verie
graciously
:
hee
after
conducted
him
into
the
Inchaunted
Garden
,
to
the
Caue
where
the
Champion
of
Wales
was
kept
sléeping
by
the
foure
virgins
delightfull
songes
,
and
after
setting
him
in
a
chaire
of
Ebonie
,
Ormondine
thus
began
to
relate
of
wonderfull
things
.
Renowned
Knight
at
Armes
(
saide
the
Nigromancer
)
Fames
worthiest
Champion
,
whose
straunge
aduentures
,
all
Christendome
in
time
to
come
shall
applaude
:
therfore
be
silent
till
I
haue
told
my
Tragicke
tale
,
for
neuer
after
this
my
tongue
shall
speake
againe
:
The
Knight
which
thou
seest
here
wrapped
in
this
sheete
of
gold
,
is
a
Christian
Champion
as
thou
art
,
sprung
from
the
auncient
feede
of
Troian
warriours
,
who
likewise
attempted
to
drawe
this
Inchaunted
sword
,
but
my
Magicke
spels
so
preuailed
,
that
he
was
intercepted
in
the
enterprise
,
and
forced
euer
since
to
remaine
sléeping
in
this
Caue
:
but
now
the
houre
is
almost
come
of
hys
recouery
,
which
by
thée
must
be
accomplished
:
thou
art
that
aduenterous
Champion
,
whose
inuincible
hand
must
finish
vp
my
detested
life
,
and
send
my
fléeting
soule
to
draw
the
fatall
Charriot
vppon
the
banckes
of
burning
Acharon
:
for
my
time
was
limited
to
remaine
no
longer
in
this
Inchaunted
Garden
,
but
vntill
that
from
the
North
should
come
a
Knight
that
should
pull
this
sword
from
the
Inchaunted
Rocke
,
which
thou
happilie
hast
now
perfourmed
:
therefore
I
know
my
time
is
short
,
&
my
houre
of
destenie
is
at
hand
:
what
I
report
write
it
vp
in
brazen
lines
,
for
the
time
will
come
when
thys
discourse
shall
highly
benefit
thee
.
Take
héed
thou
obserue
thrée
thinges
:
first
that
thou
take
to
wise
a
pure
maide
:
next
that
thou
erect
a
Monument
ouer
thy
Fathers
graue
,
and
lastly
that
thou
continue
a
professed
foe
to
the
enemies
of
Christe
Iesus
,
hearing
Armes
in
the
Honour
and
praise
of
thy
Countrie
.
These
thinges
beeing
truely
and
iustly
obserued
,
thou
shalt
attaine
to
such
honour
,
that
all
the
Kingdomes
of
Christendome
shall
admire
thy
dignitie
▪
What
I
speake
is
vppon
no
vaine
imagination
sprung
from
a
franticke
braine
,
but
pronounced
by
the
misticall
and
déepe
Art
of
Nigromancie
.
These
words
being
no
sooner
ended
,
but
the
most
honoured
and
fortunate
Champion
of
England
requested
the
Magitian
to
describe
his
passed
fortunes
,
&
by
what
meanes
he
came
first
to
be
gouernour
of
that
inchaunted
garden
.
To
tell
the
discourse
of
mine
owne
life
(
replied
Ormandine
)
will
bréede
a
newe
sorrowe
in
my
heart
,
the
remembrance
whereof
will
●end
my
very
soule
:
but
yet
most
(
Noble
Knight
)
to
fulfill
thy
request
,
I
will
force
my
tongue
to
declare
what
my
hart
denies
to
vtter
:
therefore
prepare
thy
eares
to
entertayne
the
wo●●lst
tale
,
that
euer
any
tongue
deliuered
,
and
so
after
saint
George
had
a
while
sate
silent
expecting
hir
discourse
,
the
Magitian
spake
as
followeth
.
The
wofull
and
tragicall
discourse
pronounced
by
the
Nigromancer
Ormondine
,
of
the
misery
of
his
children
.
I
Was
informer
times
,
(
so
long
as
fortune
smiled
vpon
me
)
the
King
and
onely
commaunder
of
Scythia
,
my
name
Ormondine
:
gracte
in
my
youth
with
two
fayre
daughters
,
whome
nature
had
not
onely
made
beautifull
▪
but
replenisht
them
with
all
the
gifts
that
Art
could
deuise
,
the
elder
whose
name
was
Castria
,
the
fayrest
mayde
that
euer
Scythia
brought
forth
,
her
eyes
like
flaming
torches
to
dazeled
the
gazers
,
that
like
attractiue
Adamants
,
they
coniured
all
eyes
to
admire
her
beauty
,
amongst
a
number
of
knights
that
were
insnared
with
her
loue
:
there
was
one
Floridon
sonne
to
the
King
of
Armenia
:
equall
to
her
in
all
excellent
ornaments
of
nature
,
a
louelier
couple
neuer
trod
on
earth
,
nor
gracte
any
Princesse
Court
in
the
whole
world
.
This
Floridon
so
feruently
burned
in
affection
,
with
the
admired
Castria
,
that
he
lusted
after
virginitie
,
and
practised
both
by
pollicie
and
faire
promises
to
enioy
that
precious
pleasure
,
which
after
●ell
to
his
owne
destinction
:
For
vppon
a
time
when
the
mantles
of
darke
night
had
closed
in
the
light
of
heauen
,
and
the
whole
Court
had
entertained
a
silent
rest
:
this
lustfull
Floridon
entered
Castrias
lodging
furthered
by
her
chamber
mai●e
,
where
to
hys
hard
ha●
he
crapped
the
bud
of
swéet
virginity
,
and
left
such
a
pawne
with
in
her
wombe
,
th●t
before
many
dayes
were
expired
,
her
thame
began
to
appeare
,
and
the
deceaued
Ladie
was
constrained
to
reueale
her
griefe
to
Floridon
:
Who
in
the
meane
time
had
betrothed
himselfe
〈◊〉
my
yonger
daughter
,
whose
name
was
Marcilla
,
no
lesse
beautified
with
natures
gifts
,
than
her
elder
sister
:
But
when
this
vnconstant
Floridon
perceaued
that
her
belly
began
to
growe
big
with
the
burden
of
his
vnhappy
séed
,
he
vpbraided
her
with
shame
,
laying
dishonour
in
her
dish
,
calling
her
strumpet
,
with
many
ignominiou●
words
,
forswearing
himself
,
neuer
to
haue
committed
any
such
infamous
déede
,
protesting
that
hee
euer
scornde
to
linke
in
womans
ba●des
,
and
counter
chamberl●ne
a
deadlie
sting
,
and
a
déepe
infection
to
the
honour
of
knighthood
.
These
vnkinde
spéeches
droue
Castria
into
such
extreame
passion
of
minde
,
that
she
with
a
shamefast
looke
,
and
blushing
chéekes
,
after
this
manner
reuealed
her
secrecie
vnto
him
.
What
knowes
not
Floridon
(
quoth
the
Lady
)
her
whom
hys
lust
hath
stained
with
dishonour
?
See
sée
vnconstant
Knight
the
pledge
of
faithles
vowes
,
beholde
the
wombe
where
springes
thy
liuely
image
,
behold
the
marke
which
staines
my
Fathers
auncient
house
,
and
sets
a
shamefaste
blush
vpon
my
chéekes
.
When
I
behold
the
companie
of
●haste
virgins
,
deare
Floridon
shadow
this
my
shame
with
marriage
rightes
,
that
I
be
not
accounted
a
by
word
to
the
world
,
nor
that
my
Babe
in
time
to
come
,
hee
tearmed
a
base
borne
childe
,
remember
what
plighted
promises
,
what
vowes
and
protestations
past
betwixt
vs
,
remember
the
place
and
time
of
my
dishonour
,
&
bee
not
like
the
furious
Tyger
,
to
repay
loue
with
dispite
.
At
which
wordes
Floridon
with
a
wrathfull
countenance
,
replyed
in
these
wordes
.
Egregious
and
shameles
creature
(
quoth
he
)
with
what
brazen
face
darest
thou
out
braue
mee
thus
:
I
tell
thee
Castria
,
my
loue
was
euer
yet
to
follow
Armes
,
to
heare
the
sound
of
Drummes
,
to
ride
vppon
a
nimble
Stéede
,
and
not
to
trace
a
carpet
daunce
,
like
Priams
sonne
before
the
lustfull
eyes
of
Maenalaus
wife
:
Therefore
begone
disturbing
strumpet
,
goe
sing
thy
harsh
melodie
in
company
of
nightly
birdes
,
for
I
tell
thée
the
day
will
blushe
to
couer
thy
monstrous
shame
.
Which
reprochfull
spéeches
béeing
no
sooner
ended
,
but
Floridon
departed
her
presence
,
leauing
not
behinde
〈◊〉
so
much
as
a
kinde
looke
:
whereat
the
distressed
Lady
,
béeing
oppressed
with
intollerable
griefe
〈◊〉
downe
dead
,
not
able
to
speak
for
a
time
,
but
at
last
recouering
her
sences
she
began
a
new
to
complaine
.
I
that
was
w●nt
(
quoth
shée
)
to
walke
with
Troupes
of
maides
,
must
nowe
abandon
and
vtt●rly
forsake
all
companies
and
séeke
some
secret
Caue
,
wherein
I
may
●it
for
euermore
and
bewaile
my
lost
Uirginitie
:
If
I
returne
vnto
my
Father
,
hée
will
refuse
mée
:
if
to
my
friends
they
will
bee
ashamed
of
mée
:
if
to
strangers
,
they
will
scorne
mée
:
if
to
my
Floridon
,
oh
he
denieth
mee
,
and
accounts
my
●ight
as
ominous
as
the
baleful
Crokadiles
.
Oh
that
I
might
in
the
shape
of
a
birde
,
or
like
the
rauisht
Philomele
fill
euerie
wood
and
wildernes
with
my
dishonour
,
for
now
am
I
neyther
chaste
virgin
,
nor
honest
wife
,
but
shameles
strumpet
,
and
the
worldes
chiefe
scorne
:
whereat
me
thinkes
I
see
howe
vertuous
and
chaste
maidens
point
,
and
tearmes
me
a
viscious
dame
.
Oh
vnconstant
Floridon
!
thou
diddest
promise
to
shadowe
this
my
fault
with
marriage
,
but
vowes
I
see
are
vaine
:
Thou
haste
forsaken
mee
,
and
tyed
thy
faith
vnto
my
sister
Marcilla
,
who
must
enioy
thy
loue
,
because
shee
continu●s
chaste
without
any
spot
of
dishonour
.
Oh
woe
to
th●e
vnconstant
knight
,
thy
flattering
eyes
deceaued
me
,
and
thy
golden
tongue
enticed
mee
to
commit
that
sin
,
which
all
the
Ocean
streames
can
neuer
wash
away
:
But
why
stand
I
relating
thus
in
vaine
,
the
〈◊〉
is
done
,
and
Floridon
will
triumph
in
the
spoile
of
my
virginitie
,
while
he
lyes
dallying
in
my
sisters
Armes
:
Nay
first
the
fatall
lights
of
Funeralles
shall
maske
about
hys
marriage
bed
,
and
hys
bridall
blaze
,
I
le
quench
with
blood
:
for
I
will
goe
vnto
their
marriage
Chamber
,
where
as
these
handes
of
mine
shall
rende
my
sisters
wombe
,
before
she
shall
enioy
the
interest
of
my
bed
:
rage
heart
,
in
steede
of
loue
delight
in
murther
,
let
vengeance
bée
euer
in
thy
thoughtes
,
vntill
thou
haste
quencht
with
blood
,
the
furies
of
disloyall
loue
.
Thus
complayned
the
wofull
Castria
,
vp
and
downe
the
Court
of
Scythia
,
vntill
the
mi●●resse
of
the
night
had
spent
fiue
months
▪
at
the
end
of
which
time
,
the
appointe●
marriage
of
Floridon
and
Marcilla
drewe
nigh
:
the
thought
whereof
,
was
an
endles
terrour
to
her
heart
,
and
of
a
more
intollerable
burden
,
than
the
paynes
of
her
wombe
:
the
which
she
girded
in
so
extreamely
for
feare
of
suspition
,
and
partly
vnder
colour
to
bring
about
he●
intended
Tragedie
,
which
was
in
this
bloody
maner
accomplished
and
brought
about
.
The
day
at
last
came
,
whereon
Floridon
and
Marcilla
should
tye
that
sacred
knot
of
marriage
,
and
the
Princes
&
Potentates
of
Scythia
were
al
present
as
witnesses
to
Hymens
holy
rites
:
In
which
Honourable
assembly
,
none
were
more
buster
than
Castria
to
beautifie
her
sisters
wedding
.
The
Ceremonies
b●eing
no
sooner
perfe●●●ed
,
and
the
day
spent
in
all
pleasures
fitting
the
Honour
of
so
great
and
mighty
a
traine
,
but
Castria
requested
the
vse
of
the
Countrie
,
which
was
this
,
that
the
first
night
of
euerie
maydens
marriage
,
a
pure
virgin
should
lye
with
the
Bride
,
which
honourable
tas●●
was
committed
to
Castria
:
who
prouided
against
the
houre
appointed
,
a
siluer
bodkin
and
hid
it
secretly
in
the
trammels
of
her
haire
,
wherewith
she
intended
to
prosecute
reuenge
.
The
Brides
lodging
chamber
was
appointed
farre
from
the
hearing
of
any
one
,
lest
the
noyse
of
people
should
hinder
their
quiet
sleepe
.
But
at
last
when
the
houre
of
her
wishes
approached
,
that
the
Bride
should
take
leane
of
the
Ladies
and
maidens
that
attended
her
to
her
Chamber
,
the
new
married
Floridon
in
company
of
many
Scythian
knights
,
committed
Marcilla
to
her
quiet
rest
,
little
mistrusting
the
bloody
intent
of
her
sisters
minde
.
But
now
behold
howe
euery
thing
fell
out
according
to
her
desires
.
The
Ladies
and
gentle
women
béeing
no
sooner
departed
,
&
silence
taken
possession
of
the
whole
Court
,
But
Castria
with
her
own
handes
locked
the
chamber
dore
,
and
secretly
conuaide
the
keyes
vnder
the
b●ds
heade
,
not
perceaued
by
the
betrayed
Marcilla
:
which
pore
Ladie
after
some
few
spéeches
departed
to
bed
:
wherein
she
was
no
sooner
layed
,
but
a
heauie
sleep
ouer
mastered
her
sences
,
wherby
her
tongue
was
forced
to
giue
her
Sister
good
night
,
who
as
then
sate
discontented
by
her
bed
side
,
watching
the
time
wherein
shée
might
conueniently
inact
the
bloody
Tragedy
:
vppon
a
Court
table
stoode
two
burning
Tapers
that
gaue
light
to
the
whole
Chamber
,
which
in
her
conceit
seemed
to
burne
bl●w
:
which
fatall
spectakle
incouraged
her
to
a
spéedy
performance
,
and
by
the
light
of
the
two
lamps
shée
vnbraced
her
vestures
and
stripped
her selfe
into
her
milke-white
smock
,
hauing
not
so
much
vpon
her
head
as
a
Caule
to
hold
vp
her
golden
haire
:
After
this
she
tooke
her
siluer
bodkin
that
before
shee
had
secretly
hidden
in
her
haire
,
and
with
a
wrathfull
countenance
(
vpon
whose
browes
sate
the
image
of
pale
death
)
shee
came
to
her
n●we
married
sister
,
béeing
then
ouercome
with
a
heauie
slumber
,
and
with
her
Bodkin
perced
her
tender
breast
:
who
immediatly
at
the
●●oke
thereof
,
started
from
her
sléepe
,
and
gaue
such
a
pittifull
●●rike
,
that
it
would
haue
w●kened
the
whole
Court
,
but
that
the
Chamber
〈◊〉
farre
from
the
hearing
of
all
company
,
except
her
bloody
minded
sister
,
whose
hand
was
ready
to
redouble
her
furie
with
a
second
stroke
.
But
when
Marcilla
beheld
the
shéetes
and
ornaments
of
her
bed
bestained
with
p●●ple
gaze
,
and
from
her
breast
ran
streames
of
Crimson
blood
,
which
like
to
a
fountains
trickled
from
her
Iuorie
bosome
,
shee
breathed
foorth
thys
earnest
exclamation
against
the
crueltie
of
Castria
.
O
sister
(
said
she
)
hath
nature
harboured
in
thy
breast
a
bloody
minde
!
What
Furie
hath
incenst
thée
thus
to
commit
my
Tragedy
?
In
what
haue
I
〈◊〉
,
or
wherein
hath
my
tongue
〈…〉
?
What
cause
hath
béene
occasion
that
thy
remorceles
hand
,
against
true
nati●●●y
hath
conuerted
my
ioyfull
Nuptials
,
to
a
wofull
Funerall
.
This
is
the
cause
(
replyed
Castria
,
and
therewithall
shewed
her
wombe
growne
big
through
the
burden
of
her
Childe
)
that
I
haue
bathed
my
handes
in
thy
detested
blood
.
Sée
,
see
,
Marcilla
(
said
shée
)
the
vnhappie
bed
wherin
thy
accursed
husband
oath
s●wen
his
séed
,
by
which
my
virgins
honour
〈◊〉
fo●
euer
stainde
:
this
is
the
spot
which
thy
heart
blood
must
wash
away
,
and
this
is
the
shame
that
nothing
but
death
shall
〈◊〉
:
Therefore
a
swéete
reuenge
,
and
a
present
murther
will
I
likewise
commit
vppon
my selfe
,
whereby
my
loathed
soule
,
incompany
of
my
vnborne
babe
shall
wander
with
thy
Ghost
along
the
Stygi●n
lakes
.
Which
wordes
béeing
no
sooner
finished
,
but
she
violently
pierced
her
owne
breast
:
whereby
the
two
sisters
〈◊〉
were
equally
mingled
together
:
but
now
Marcilla
beeing
the
first
wounded
,
and
the
nearer
drawing
towards
death
,
she
wofully
complained
this
dying
Lamentatio●
.
Draw
nere
(
said
shée
)
you
blazing
starres
,
you
earthlie
Angels
and
imbrothered
Girles
,
you
louely
Ladies
&
flourishing
Dames
of
Scythia
,
behold
hir
wofull
end
,
whose
glor●●●
mounted
higher
than
the
elements
,
behold
my
marriage
bed
which
is
beautified
with
Tapestrie
,
now
conuerted
to
deaths
bloody
habitation
,
my
braue
attire
to
earthly
mould
,
and
my
Princely
Pallaces
,
to
Elizium
〈◊〉
,
being
a
place
appointed
for
those
Dames
that
liude
and
dide
true
virgins
:
for
now
I
feele
the
paines
of
death
closing
my
liues
windowes
,
and
my
heart
readie
to
entertaine
the
stroke
of
desteni●
:
Come
Floridon
come
,
in
steed
of
armes
get
Eagles
wings
,
that
in
thy
bosome
I
may
breath
my
murthered
Ghost
:
world
fare
thou
well
,
I
was
too
proud
of
thy
inticing
pleasures
:
thy
Princely
pompe
,
and
all
thy
glistering
ornaments
I
must
for
euer
bid
adue
.
Father
farewell
with
all
thy
masking
Traine
of
Courtly
Ladies
,
Knights
&
Gentlewomen
:
my
death
I
know
will
make
thy
Pallace
●●aths
gloomie
regiment
,
and
last
of
all
farewell
thy
Noble
Floridon
,
for
thy
swéete
sake
Marcilla
nowe
is
murthered
.
At
the
end
of
which
words
,
the
dying
Ladie
béeing
faint
with
the
abundance
of
blood
that
issued
from
her
wounded
breast
,
gaue
vp
the
Ghost
:
No
sooner
had
pale
death
ceazed
vpon
her
●●eles
body
,
but
Castria
likewise
through
〈…〉
of
her
wound
was
readie
to
entertaine
the
stroke
of
the
fatall
sisters
who
likewise
complained
in
this
manner
.
Harken
you
louing
Girles
(
saide
shee
)
to
you
I
speake
,
that
knowes
what
endles
griefe
,
disloyall
and
false
loue
br●●des
inconstant
mindes
,
the
thought
whereof
is
so
intollerable
to
my
soule
,
that
it
excéeds
the
torments
of
Danaus
daughters
,
that
continually
filles
water
into
the
bottomles
tubs
in
hell
.
Oh
that
my
eares
had
neuer
listned
to
●●●fugered
spéeches
,
or
neuer
knowne
what
Courtly
pleasures
meant
,
where
beautie
is
a
baite
for
euery
lustfull
eye
:
but
rather
to
haue
liude
a
Countrie
Lasse
,
where
swéete
content
is
harboured
,
and
beauty
shrowded
vnder
true
humility
then
had
not
Floridon
bereaued
me
of
my
swéet
virginity
:
nor
had
not
this
accu●sed
hand
committed
this
cruell
murder
:
but
oh
I
féele
my
soule
passing
to
Elizi●●
shades
,
where
Crusas
shadow
,
and
Didos
Ghost
hath
their
abiding
▪
thither
doth
my
spirit
flye
,
to
bee
entertained
amongst
those
vnhappy
Ladies
that
vnconstant
loue
hath
murdered
:
thus
Castria
not
béeing
able
to
speake
any
longer
,
gaue
a
verie
grieuous
sigh
,
and
so
bad
adue
to
the
world
.
But
when
the
morninges
sun
had
chast
away
the
darksome
night
,
Floridon
who
little
mistrusted
the
tragedy
of
the
two
sisters
,
repayred
to
the
chamber
dore
with
a
Consort
of
skillfull
Musitians
,
where
their
conspiring
h●rmonye
sounded
to
the
walls
:
and
Floridons
morninges
salutations
were
spente
in
vayne
:
for
death
so
stopt
the
two
Princes
eares
that
no
resound
of
thankes
at
all
reanswered
his
wordes
,
which
caused
Floridon
to
departe
thinking
them
to
be
a
sléepe
,
and
to
returne
with
in
an
hower
〈◊〉
,
who
with
out
any
company
came
to
the
chamber
dore
where
be
a
gain
found
all
silent
:
at
which
suspecting
some
further
euent
burst
open
the
dore
,
where
being
no
sooner
entred
,
but
he
found
the
two
Ladies
w●ltring
in
purple
●ore
:
which
wofull
spectackle
presently
so
bereaued
him
of
his
wits
,
that
like
a
franticke
man
he
raged
vp
and
downe
,
and
in
this
maner
bitterly
complained
.
Oh
you
immortal
powers
!
open
the
wrathfull
gates
of
heauen
,
&
in
your
Iustice
punish
me
,
for
my
vnconstant
loue
hath
murthered
two
of
the
brauest
Ladies
that
euer
nature
framed
:
reuiue
swéet●
Dames
of
Scythia
&
heare
m●e
speake
,
that
〈◊〉
the
wofullest
wretch
that
euer
spake
with
tongue
:
If
Ghost
may
here
be
giuen
for
Ghost
,
deare
Ladies
take
my
soule
and
liue
,
or
if
my
hart
might
dwell
within
your
breasts
,
this
hand
shal
equally
deuide
it
:
What
are
wordes
vaine
?
although
my
proffer
cannot
purchase
life
,
nor
recouer
your
breathing
spirits
againe
,
yet
vengeaunce
shall
〈◊〉
haue
:
〈◊〉
shall
〈◊〉
my
fatall
〈◊〉
,
and
here
〈…〉
bloody
brest
of
soule
,
●hereby
my
vnhappie
Ghost
shall
followe
you
,
throug●
〈◊〉
Tartar
gulfes
,
through
burning
lakes
▪
&
through
the
low
〈◊〉
shades
of
dreadfull
Coffitus
:
gape
▪
gape
,
〈◊〉
earth
〈◊〉
wombe
make
all
our
toombes
together
.
〈◊〉
wofull
lamentation
being
no
sooner
br●athed
〈◊〉
hys
sorrowfull
brest
〈◊〉
finished
his
dayes
,
by
the
s●●●ke
of
that
same
accursed
●●●kin
,
that
was
the
bloody
instrument
of
the
two
sisters
deathes
,
the
which
he
found
shall
remayning
in
the
remorceles
hand
of
Castria
.
Thus
haue
you
heard
(
most
worthie
Knight
)
the
true
Tragedy
of
thrée
of
the
goodliest
personages
,
that
euer
nature
framed
:
but
now
with
dilligent
eares
listen
to
the
vnfortunate
discourse
of
mine
owne
miserie
,
which
in
this
vnhappy
manner
fell
out
:
For
no
sooner
came
the
●l●ing
●●●sicke
of
the
murthered
Princes
to
my
eares
,
but
I
〈◊〉
into
such
a
discontented
passion
,
that
I
abandoned
my selfe
from
company
of
people
,
and
fate
for
seauen
monthes
〈◊〉
a
solitarie
passion
lamenting
the
losse
of
my
Children
,
〈◊〉
wéep●ng
Niobe
,
which
was
the
sorrowfull●st
Lady
〈◊〉
nor
liued
.
During
which
time
the
report
of
Floridons
vnhappie
Tragedy
,
was
bruted
to
hys
fathers
eares
,
beeing
the
sole
King
of
Armenia
:
whose
griefes
so
excéeded
the
bounds
of
reason
,
that
with
all
conuenient
spéede
the
greatest
strength
Armenia
could
make
,
and
in
reuenge
of
his
sonnes
vnhappy
murther
,
entered
our
Territories
,
and
with
hys
wel
approued
warrious
,
subdued
our
Prouinces
,
slaughtered
our
Souldiers
,
conquered
our
Captaines
,
slew
our
Commons
,
burnt
our
Citties
,
and
left
our
Country
villages
desolate
:
whereby
when
I
beheld
my
Countrey
ouerspread
with
famine
,
fire
and
sworde
▪
thrée
intesti●e
plagues
wherewith
heauen
scourgeth
the
sinnes
of
the
wicked
,
I
was
forced
for
safegard
of
my
life
to
forsake
my
natiue
habitation
and
Kingly
gouernement
,
onely
committing
my
fortune
(
like
a
〈◊〉
Exile
)
to
〈◊〉
vnknown
passages
,
where
care
was
〈◊〉
companion
,
and
discontent
my
onely
soliciter
:
At
last
it
was
my
desteny
to
ariue
in
this
vnhappy
place
which
I
supposed
to
be
the
walks
of
dispayre
,
where
I
had
not
remayned
many
dayes
in
my
melancholly
passions
▪
but
〈◊〉
thought
the
warie
●awes
of
déepe
Auerna
op●ned
from
whence
ascended
a
most
fearefull
diuell
,
that
inticed
mee
to
bequeath
my
fortune
to
hys
disposing
,
and
he
would
defend
me
from
the
furie
of
the
whole
world
:
to
which
I
presently
condescended
vpon
some
assurance
:
Then
presently
hee
placed
before
my
face
,
this
Inchaunted
sword
,
so
surely
closed
in
stone
,
that
should
neuer
be
pulled
out
but
by
the
hands
of
a
Christian
Knight
,
and
till
that
taske
were
performed
I
should
liue
exempt
from
all
danger
,
although
all
the
Kingdomes
of
the
earth
assailed
me
:
which
taske
(
most
aduenterous
Champion
)
thou
now
haste
performed
,
whereby
I
knowe
the
houre
of
my
death
approacheth
,
and
my
time
of
confusion
to
be
at
hand
.
This
discourse
pronounced
by
the
Nigromancer
Ormondine
was
no
sooner
finished
,
but
the
worthie
Champion
Saint
George
heard
such
a
tyrrible
ratling
in
the
skyes
,
&
such
〈◊〉
in
the
earth
,
that
be
exspected
some
strange
euent
to
follow●
then
casting
his
eies
aside
,
he
saw
the
Inchaunted
Garden
to
vanish
,
and
the
Champion
of
Wales
to
awake
from
hys
dead
sléepe
,
wherein
hee
had
remayned
〈…〉
:
who
like
one
newly
risen
from
a
sounds
,
for
a
〈◊〉
stood
spéechles
,
not
able
to
vtter
one
word
,
till
he
beheld
the
Noble
Champion
of
England
,
that
stedfastly
gazed
vpon
the
Nigromancer
:
who
at
the
vanishing
of
the
Inchauntment
,
presently
gaue
a
most
tyrrible
grone
&
died
.
The
〈◊〉
Champions
after
many
curteous
imbrasinges
and
kinde
gréetings
reuealed
each
to
other
the
straunge
aduentures
they
had
passed
,
and
how
Saint
Dauid
was
bound
by
the
oath
of
hys
Knighthood
to
performe
the
aduenture
of
Ormondine
:
to
which
Saint
George
presently
condescended
,
who
deliuered
the
Inchaunted
sword
,
with
the
Nigromancers
head
into
the
handes
of
Saint
Dauid
the
which
he
presently
disceuered
from
hys
dead
body
:
Here
must
my
wearie
Muse
leaue
Saint
Dauid
trauailing
with
Ormondines
●ead
to
the
Tartarian
Emperour
,
and
speake
of
the
following
aduentures
that
hapned
to
Saint
George
;
after
his
departure
from
the
Inchaunted
Garden
.
CHAP.
XI
.
How
Saint
George
〈◊〉
at
Tripolie
in
Barbar●●
,
where
he
stole
away
Sabra
the
Kinges
Daughter
of
Egip●
from
the
Blackamore
King
,
and
how
shee
was
knowne
to
be●
a
pure
virgin
by
the
mo●ne●
of
a
Lyon
,
and
what
hapned
to
him
in
the
same
aduenture
.
SAint
George
after
the
recouerie
of
Saint
Dauid
,
as
you
heard
in
the
former
Chapter
,
dispatched
his
iourny
towards
Christend●●●
,
whose
pleasant
bankes
he
long
desired
to
behold
,
and
thought
euerie
day
a
yeare
till
hys
eyes
enioyed
a
swéete
sight
of
hys
Natiue
Countrie
England
,
vpon
whose
Chalkey
cliffes
he
had
not
treade
in
many
a
wearie
Sommers
day
:
therefore
committing
his
iournie
to
a
fortunate
successe
,
trauailde
through
many
a
dangerous
countrie
:
where
the
people
were
not
only
of
a
bloody
disposition
giuen
to
all
manner
of
wickednes
,
but
the
s●yle
greatl●
anoyed
with
wilde
Beasts
,
through
which
he
could
not
well
trauaile
without
danger
:
therefore
hee
carried
continually
in
one
of
hys
handes
▪
a
weapon
ready●
charged
to
〈◊〉
with
the
Heathen
people
if
occasion
should
serue
,
and
in
the
other
hande
,
a
bright
burning
blaze
of
fire
,
to
defend
him
from
the
fur●e
of
the
wilde
Beasts
,
〈◊〉
by
violence
they
assayled
h●m
.
Thus
in
extreame
daunger
trauailed
the
Noble
and
aduenterous
Champion
Saint
George
,
till
●ee
ari●ed
in
the
Territories
of
o●
Barbarie
,
in
which
Countrie
he
purposed
for
a
time
to
remaine
,
and
to
séeke
for
some
noble
atchiuement
,
whereby
hys
〈◊〉
●ight
be
〈◊〉
and
hys
honored
〈◊〉
through
all
the
King
〈◊〉
of
the
world
▪
and
b●●ing
incouraged
with
this
Princely
●●gitation
,
the
Noble
Champion
of
England
,
climbed
to
the
top
of
a
huge
mountaine
,
where
he
vnlocked
hys
Beuer
,
which
before
had
not
beene
lifted
vp
in
many
a
day
,
and
beheld
the
wide
and
spacious
Countrie
how
it
was
beautified
with
loftie
Pines
,
&
a●●rnde
with
many
goodly
Pallaces
:
But
amongst
the
number
of
the
Townes
&
Cities
which
the
English
Champion
beheld
,
there
was
one
which
séemed
to
excéede
the
rest
,
both
in
s●ituation
and
braue
buildinges
,
which
he
supposed
to
be
the
chiefest
Cittie
in
all
the
Countrie
,
and
the
place
where
the
King
vsually
kept
hys
Court
:
to
which
place
S.
George
intended
to
trauaile
,
not
to
furnish
himselfe
with
any
needfull
thinge
,
but
to
accomplish
some
Honorable
aduenture
,
whereby
hys
worthy
deedes
might
bee
enternized
in
the
Bookes
of
memorie
:
So
after
he
had
descended
from
the
top
of
the
stéepy
mountaine
,
and
had
trauailed
in
a
low
valley
about
some
two
or
thrée
miles
,
he
approched
an
olde
and
almost
ruinated
Hermitage
ouer
growne
with
mosse
▪
&
other
wither●d
wéedes
:
before
the
entrie
of
which
Hermitage
sate
an
auncient
Father
vpon
a
rounde
stone
▪
taking
the
heate
of
the
warme
Sun
,
which
cast
such
a
comfortable
brightnes
vpon
the
Hermits
face
,
that
hys
white
●eard
séemed
to
glister
like
siluer
,
and
hys
head
to
excéed
the
whitelies
of
the
Northen
〈◊〉
Of
whom
after
Saint
George
had
giuen
the
due
reuerence
that
belonged
vnto
age
,
demaunded
the
name
of
the
Countrie
,
and
the
Cittie
hee
trauailed
to
,
&
vnder
what
King
the
Countrie
was
gouerned
:
to
whom
the
curteous
Hermit
thus
replyed
.
Most
Noble
knight
,
for
so
I
g●sse
you
are
by
your
〈◊〉
and
outward
appearance
(
laid
the
Hermit
)
you
are
now
in
the
confines
of
Barbarie
,
the
Cittie
oppos●●e
b●fore
your
eyes
is
called
Tripolie
,
〈…〉
the
〈◊〉
of
Almidor
the
blacke
King
of
Moroco
:
in
which
Cittie
he
now
kéepeth
hys
Court
,
attended
on
by
as
many
valiant
Knights
,
as
any
King
vnder
the
●ope
of
heauen
.
At
which
wordes
the
Noble
Champion
of
England
sodainely
started
,
as
though
hee
had
intelligence
of
some
●al●full
newes
,
which
d●epely
discontented
hys
Princely
mind
,
hys
heart
was
presently
incenst
with
a
spéedy
reuenge
,
and
his
minde
so
extreamely
thirsted
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
hundred
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
had
not
long
remayned
,
but
her
heart
began
to
fain●
for
hunger
,
and
her
colour
that
was
but
a
little
before
as
〈◊〉
as
any
Ladies
in
the
world
,
beganne
to
chaunge
for
want
of
some
drinke
:
whereat
the
famous
Champion
Saint
George
halfe
dead
with
griefe
,
comforted
her
as
well
as
hee
could
after
this
manner
.
Faint
not
my
deare
Lady
(
said
the
Champion
)
here
i●
that
goodsword
,
that
once
preserued
thée
from
the
burning
Dragon
,
and
before
thou
die
for
want
of
sustenance
,
it
shall
make
wa●
to
euery
corner
of
this
wildernes
:
where
I
will
eyther
kill
some
venis●n
to
refreshe
thy
hungry
stomacke
,
or
make
my
toomb
in
the
bowels
of
some
monstr●us
beast
:
therefore
abide
thou
here
vnder
this
trée
in
company
of
thy
faithfull
Euenuke
,
till
I
returne
eyther
with
the
fleshe
of
some
wilde
Deare
,
or
els
some
●lying
Birde
to
refreshe
thy
spirits
to
a
new
trauaile
.
Thus
left
he
hys
beloued
Lady
with
the
Euenuke
to
the
mercy
of
the
woods
,
and
trauailed
vp
and
downe
the
Wildernes
,
till
he
espyed
a
Heard
of
faited
Deare
,
from
which
company
he
●●●gled
out
the
fayrest
,
and
like
a
tripping
Satire
coursed
her
to
death
:
then
with
hys
keene
edged
sword
cut
out
the
goodlyest
haunch
of
venison
,
that
euer
Hunters
eye
beheld
:
which
gi●t
he
supposed
to
bee
most
welcome
to
his
beloued
Lady
.
But
marke
what
hapned
in
his
absence
to
the
two
wearie
trauailers
abiding
vnder
the
●ra
:
where
after
Saint
Georges
departure
,
they
had
not
long
sit●●n
discoursing
,
one
while
of
their
long
iournies
,
another
while
of
their
safe
deliuerie
from
the
Blackamoore
King
,
spending
the
stealing
time
away
with
many
an
auncient
storie
:
but
there
appeared
out
of
a
thicket
two
huge
and
m●nstrous
Lyons
,
which
came
directly
pacing
towardes
the
two
trauailers
:
which
fearefull
spectakle
wh●●
Sabra
beheld
,
hauing
a
hart
oue●charged
with
the
extreame
feare
of
death
,
wholy
committed
her
soule
into
the
●ands
of
God
,
and
her
body
almost
famished
for
foode
,
to
suff●ce
the
hunger
of
the
two
furious
Lyons
:
who
by
the
appointment
of
heauen
,
pro●●●red
not
so
much
as
to
lay
their
wrathfull
pawes
vpon
the
smallest
part
of
the
Ladies
garment
:
but
with
eger
moode
assailed
the
Euenuke
till
they
had
buried
hys
body
in
the
emptie
vaults
of
their
hungry
bowels
:
then
with
their
téeth
lately
imbrued
in
blood
,
r●nt
the
Euenukes
Stéed
〈◊〉
a
thousand
péeces
:
which
béeing
done
they
came
to
〈◊〉
Lady
which
sate
quaking
●●lfe
dead
with
feare
,
&
like
two
Lambs
couched
their
〈◊〉
vpon
her
la●
:
where
with
her
handes
she
stroked
downe
their
brisled
haire
,
not
daring
almost
to
breath
,
till
a
heauie
sleepe
had
ouer-mastered
their
refreshed
sences
:
by
which
time
the
Princely
minded
Champ●on
Saint
George
returned
with
a
péece
of
venison
vppon
the
point
of
hys
sword
:
who
at
that
vnexpected
fight
,
stood
in
a
maze
whether
it
were
best
to
flye
for
sauegard
of
hys
life
,
or
to
venture
hys
fortune
against
the
furious
Lions
:
But
at
last
the
loue
of
hys
Lady
so
incouragde
him
to
a
forwardnes
,
which
he
beheld
quaking
before
the
dismal
gates
of
death
:
So
laying
downe
hys
v●nison
,
he
presently
like
a
victorious
Champion
,
sheathed
hys
approued
●auchion
most
furiously
into
the
bowels
of
one
of
the
Lyons
.
Sabra
kept
the
other
sléeping
in
her
lappe
till
hys
prosperous
hand
like
wise
dispatched
him
:
which
aduenture
béeing
performed
,
he
first
thanked
heauen
for
the
victorie
,
and
then
in
this
kinde
manner
saluted
his
Lady
.
Now
Sabra
(
said
he
)
I
haue
by
this
sufficiently
prou●●
thy
true
virginitie
:
for
it
is
the
nature
of
euerie
Lyon
,
be
he
neuer
so
furious
,
not
to
harme
the
vnspotted
virgin
,
but
humbly
to
lay
his
bri●●ed
heade
vppon
a
ma●dens
lappe
.
Therefore
diuine
Paragon
;
thou
art
the
worldes
chiefe
woonder
for
loue
and
chastetie
▪
whose
honoured
vertues
shall
ring
as
farre
as
euer
Phoebus
lends
hys
light
,
&
whose
constancie
I
will
mainetaine
in
euery
Land
where
as
I
co●●
,
to
be
the
truest
vnder
the
cercuit
of
the
Sunne
:
At
which
word
he
cast
hys
eye
aside
,
and
beheld
the
bloody
spe●takle
of
the
Euenukes
Tragedy
,
which
●y
Sabra
was
wofully
discoursed
,
to
the
great
griefe
of
Saint
George
:
whose
sad
●ighes
serued
for
a
dolefull
knell
to
bewaile
hys
vnt●●eles
death
:
but
hauing
a
Noble
minde
not
subiect
to
vaine
sorrow
,
where
al
hope
of
life
is
past
,
ceased
his
griefe
,
〈◊〉
pr●pared
the
venison
in
readines
for
hys
Ladies
repast
:
which
in
this
order
was
dressed
.
He
had
in
hys
pocket
a
fire-looke
,
wherewith
he
stroke
fire
▪
and
kindled
it
with
sun
-
〈…〉
,
and
increased
the
〈◊〉
with
other
drie
〈…〉
hee
gathered
in
the
Wildernes
:
against
which
they
rosted
the
venison
and
s●ff●●ed
themselues
to
their
owne
contentments
.
After
which
ioyfull
repast
,
these
two
Princely
persons
set
forward
to
their
wonted
trauailes
,
whereby
the
happie
guide
of
heauen
●o
conducted
their
steppes
,
that
before
manie
dayes
passed
,
they
ariued
in
the
Graecian
Court
,
euen
vpon
that
day
when
the
marriage
of
the
Graecian
Emperour
should
bee
solemnely
holden
:
which
Royall
Nuptials
in
former
times
had
bin
bruted
into
euery
Nation
in
the
world
,
as
well
into
Europe
as
Affrica
and
Asia
:
At
which
Honorable
marriage
the
brauest
Knights
that
euer
liude
on
earth
were
present
:
for
golden
fame
had
bruted
the
report
〈◊〉
of
to
the
eares
of
the
seauen
Champions
:
into
Theslie
to
saint
Dennis
the
Champion
of
Fraunce
,
there
remaining
with
hys
beauteous
Eglantine
:
into
Ciuillia
to
saint
Iames
the
Champion
of
Spaine
,
where
he
remained
with
hys
louelie
Celestine
:
to
saint
Anthonie
the
Champion
of
Italie
then
trauailing
in
the
borders
of
Scythia
with
hys
Lady
Rossalinde
:
likewise
to
saint
Andrew
the
Champion
o●
Scotland
:
to
saint
Pattricke
the
Champion
of
Ireland
:
and
to
saint
Dauid
the
Champion
of
Wales
:
who
atchieued
many
memorable
aduentures
in
the
Kingdome
of
Tarta●ie
as
you
haue
heard
before
discoursed
at
large
.
But
nowe
Fame
and
smiling
Fortune
consented
to
make
their
Knightlie
atchiuement●
to
shine
in
the
eyes
of
the
whole
world
:
therefore
by
the
conduction
of
Heauen
,
they
generally
ariued
in
the
Graecian
Emperours
Court
:
Of
whose
Tilts
and
Turnaments
there
in
performed
,
to
the
honour
of
hys
Nuptials
,
my
weary
Muse
is
bounde
to
discourse
.
CHAP.
XII
.
How
the
seuen
Champions
ariued
in
Graecia
at
the
Emperours
Nuptials
,
where
they
performed
many
Noble
atchiuements
,
and
how
after
open
Warres
was
proclaimed
against
Christendome
by
the
discouerie
of
many
Knights
,
and
how
euerie
Champion
departed
into
hys
own
Countrie
.
TO
speake
of
the
number
of
Knights
that
assembled
in
the
Graecian
Court
together
,
were
a
labour
ouer
tedious
▪
requiring
the
pen
of
a
second
Homer
:
Therfore
will
I
omit
the
Honorable
frame
of
Knights
and
Ladies
that
attended
him
to
the
Church
:
their
costly
garmentes
and
glistring
ornaments
,
excéeding
the
Royaltie
of
Heccuba
the
beauteous
Queene
of
Troy
▪
Also
I
passe
ouer
the
beauteous
banquets
:
the
Honourable
seruices
and
delicious
cheare
that
beautified
the
Emperours
Nuptials
:
with
the
statelye
Maskes
and
Courtly
daunces
,
performed
by
many
Noble
personages
,
and
chiefely
discourse
of
the
Knightly
atchiuements
of
the
seauen
Champions
of
Christendome
,
whose
honourable
procéedings
,
and
magnanimious
Encounters
hath
deserued
a
golden
penne
to
relate
:
for
after
some
few
dayes
spent
in
Chamber
sports
,
to
the
great
pleasure
of
the
Graecian
Princes
:
the
Emperour
presently
proclaimed
〈…〉
●●usting
to
bee
holden
for
the
space
of
seauen
〈◊〉
in
the
honour
of
his
marriage
,
and
appointed
for
hys
names
〈◊〉
Champions
the
seauen
Christian
Knights
:
whose
〈…〉
were
not
knowne
by
any
one
except
their
owne
attendants
.
Against
the
appointed
day
the
Turnaments
should
begin
,
the
Emperour
caused
a
woonderfull
large
frame
of
timber
worke
to
bee
erected
:
whereon
the
Empresse
&
her
Ladies
might
stand
for
the
better
view
of
the
Tilters
,
and
at
pleasure
behould
the
Champions
Encounters
m●st
Nobly
performed
in
the
Honour
of
their
Mistresses
:
likewise
in
the
compasse
of
the
Li●●es
were
pitcht
seuen
Tentes
of
seuen
seuerall
colours
,
wherein
the
seuen
Champions
might
remayne
till
the
sound
of
siluer
Trumpets
summoned
them
to
appeare
.
Thus
euery
thing
prepared
in
readines
fitting
so
great
a
Royaltie
:
the
Princes
and
Ladies
placed
in
theyr
seates
:
the
Emperour
with
his
new
married
Empresse
inuested
on
theyr
loftie
throanes
strongly
garded
with
a
hundred
Armed
Knights
,
the
Kings
Harrolds
solemely
proclaimed
the
Turnaments
,
which
in
this
most
Royall
manner
began
.
The
first
day
Saint
Dennis
of
Fraunce
was
appointed
chiefe
Champion
against
all
commers
,
who
was
called
by
the
title
of
the
golden
Knight
,
who
at
the
sounde
of
the
Trumpet
entered
the
Lists
:
hys
Tent
was
of
the
colour
of
the
Marigold
,
vpon
the
top
an
artificiall
Sunne
framed
,
that
séemed
to
beautefie
the
whole
assemblie
:
hys
Horse
of
an
Iron
Gray
,
gra●te
with
a
spangled
plume
of
feathers
:
before
him
rode
a
Page
in
purple
silke
,
bearing
vpon
hys
crest
thrée
golden
Fl●re-d●-luces
,
which
did
signifie
hys
Armes
:
Thus
in
this
Royall
maner
entered
Saint
Dennis
the
Listes
:
where
after
he
had
traced
twice
or
thrice
vp
and
downe
to
the
open
view
of
the
whole
company
,
he
prepared
himselfe
in
readines
to
begin
the
Tournament
:
against
whome
ranne
many
Graecian
Knights
,
which
were
●oyled
by
the
French
Champion
,
to
the
woonderfull
admiration
of
all
the
beholders
:
but
to
be
briefe
,
he
so
worthelie
behaued
himselfe
,
and
with
such
fortitude
,
that
the
Emperour
applauded
him
for
the
brauest
Knight
in
all
the
world
.
Thus
in
great
Royaltie
to
the
excéeding
pleasure
of
the
Emperour
,
was
the
first
day
spent
,
till
the
darke
Euening
caused
the
Knights
to
breake
off
company
,
and
repaire
to
their
nights
repose
:
But
the
next
Morning
no
sooner
did
Phoebus
shewe
his
splendant
brightnesse
,
but
the
King
of
Harrolds
vnder
the
Emperour
,
with
a
noyse
of
Trumpets
awaked
the
Champions
from
their
silent
sléepe
,
who
with
all
spéede
prepared
for
the
second
dayes
exercise
.
The
chiefe
Champion
appointed
for
that
day
,
was
the
victorious
Knight
saint
Iames
of
Spaine
:
which
(
after
the
Emperor
with
hys
Empresse
had
seated
themselues
with
a
statelie
traine
of
beautifull
Ladies
)
entred
the
Listes
vpon
a
Spanish
Gennet
betrapt
with
rich
Caparison
,
his
Tent
was
pitcht
directly
ouer
against
the
Emperors
Throane
,
which
was
of
the
colour
of
quick-siluer
,
whereon
was
portrayed
many
excellent
deuices
:
before
the
Tent
attended
foure
Squiers
,
bearing
foure
seuerall
scutchions
in
their
hands
,
whereon
were
curiously
paynted
the
foure
Elements
:
likewise
he
had
the
tytle
of
the
siluer
Knight
,
who
behaued
himselfe
no
lesse
worthy
of
all
Princely
commendations
,
than
the
French
Champion
the
day
before
:
The
third
day
saint
Anthony
of
Italy
was
chiefe
challenger
in
the
Turnanament
▪
whose
Tent
was
of
the
colour
of
the
Skyes
,
his
Stéede
furnished
with
costly
Habilliments
:
his
Armour
after
the
Barbarian
manner
,
his
shield
plated
round
about
with
stéele
,
whereon
was
paynted
a
golden
Eagle
in
a
field
of
blew
:
which
signified
the
auncient
Armes
of
Rome
:
likewise
hee
had
the
Tytle
of
the
Azurde
Knight
,
whose
matchlesse
Chiualrie
for
that
day
,
wan
the
Prize
from
all
the
Graecian
Knights
,
to
the
great
reoysing
of
his
Lady
Rossalinde
,
the
King
of
Sycils
Daughter
,
that
still
remained
in
Pages
a●tyre
,
wherein
(
for
the
deare
loue
shee
bore
saint
Anthonie
)
disguisedly
stole
from
the
Court
,
whose
discouerie
shall
hereafter
be
expressed
:
The
fourth
day
by
the
Emperours
appointment
,
the
valiant
and
worthie
Knight
saint
Andrew
of
Scotland
obtained
that
Honour
,
as
to
be
chiefe
challenger
for
the
Turnament
:
hys
Tent
was
framed
in
the
manner
of
a
ship
swimming
vppon
the
waues
of
the
Sea
,
inuironed
about
with
Dolphins
Tritous
,
and
many
strange
contriued
Mearemaides
:
vppon
the
toppe
stoode
the
picture
of
Neptune
,
the
God
of
the
Seas
,
bearing
in
hys
hand
a
Streamer
,
where
on
was
wrought
in
crimson
silke
a
corner
Crosse
,
which
seemed
to
bee
hys
countries
Armes
,
hee
was
called
the
red
Knight
,
because
his
horse
was
couered
with
a
bloody
vale
:
hys
worthie
atchiuements
obtained
such
fauour
in
the
Emperours
eyes
,
that
hee
threw
him
his
siluer
Gauntlet
which
was
prized
at
a
thousand
Portegues
,
and
with
hys
owne
hands
conducted
him
to
a
rich
Pauilion
,
where
after
his
noble
encounters
hee
enioyed
a
swéete
repose
:
The
fift
day
saint
Pattricke
of
Ireland
,
as
chiefe
Champion
entred
the
Lists
,
vpon
an
Irish
Hobbie
,
couered
with
a
val●
of
gréene
,
attended
on
by
sixe
siluane
Knights
:
euery
one
bearing
vpon
his
shoulder
a
blooming
trée
:
hys
Tent
resembled
a
sommers
bower
,
at
the
entrie
whereof
stoode
the
picture
of
Flora
,
beautefied
with
a
wreath
of
swéet
smelling
Roses
:
he
was
named
the
gréene
Knight
,
whose
worthie
prowesse
so
daunted
the
defendants
,
that
before
the
Turnament
began
they
gaue
him
the
honour
of
the
day
:
vppon
the
sixt
day
the
Heroicall
and
Noble
minded
Champion
of
Wales
obtained
such
fauour
at
the
Emperours
handes
,
that
hee
was
likewise
chiefe
challenger
:
who
entred
the
Lists
vpon
a
Tartarian
Palfray
,
couered
with
a
vale
of
blacke
,
to
signifie
a
blacke
and
Tragicall
day
should
befall
to
those
Graecian
Knights
that
durst
approue
his
inuincible
fortitude
:
hys
Tent
was
pitcht
in
the
manner
and
forme
of
a
Castell
in
the
west
side
of
the
Listes
:
before
the
entrie
whereof
,
hung
a
golden
shield
:
whe●
〈◊〉
was
liuelie
portraied
a
siluer
Griffon
rampant
vppon
a
golden
Helmet
,
which
signified
the
auncient
Armes
〈◊〉
of
Brittaine
:
hys
Princelye
atchiuements
,
not
onely
obtained
due
commendations
at
●he
Emperours
handes
,
but
of
the
whole
assemblie
of
Graecian
Ladies
,
whereby
they
applauded
him
to
bee
the
most
Noblest
Knight
that
euer
shiuered
Launce
,
and
the
most
fortunates
Champion
that
euer
entred
into
the
Graecian
Court
:
vppon
the
seauenth
and
last
day
of
these
Honourable
Turnaments
and
most
Noble
procéedinges
,
the
famous
and
valiant
Knight
at
Armes
saint
George
of
England
as
chiefe
challenger
entred
the
Listes
,
vppon
a
●able
coloured
Stéed
,
betrapt
with
barres
of
burnisht
gold
,
hys
forehead
beautefied
with
a
gorgeous
plume
of
purple
feathers
,
from
whence
hung
many
pendants
of
gold
,
his
Armour
of
the
purest
Lidian
stéele
,
nayled
fast
together
with
siluer
plates
,
hys
Helmet
ingrauen
verie
curiouslie
,
beset
with
Indian
Pearle
,
and
Iasper
stones
:
before
hys
breast
plate
hung
a
siluer
Table
in
a
dammaske
scarfe
,
whereon
was
pictured
a
Lyon
rampant
in
a
bloody
fielde
,
bearing
thrée
golden
Crownes
vppon
hys
head
,
before
hys
Tent
stood
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
rested
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
Christian
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
trampled
to
péeces
by
souldiers
horses
,
and
the
stréetes
of
manye
a
Cittie
sprinckled
with
the
blood
of
reuerent
age
:
Therefore
gentle
Reader
accept
of
this
my
labour
with
a
smooth
brow
&
a
kinde
countenance
,
and
my
wearie
Muse
shall
neuer
rest
,
till
I
haue
finished
the
true
Historie
of
these
Heroicall
Champions
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
How
the
seauen
Champions
of
Christendome
ariued
with
their
Troupes
in
the
bay
of
Portingale
,
the
number
of
the
Christian
Armies
,
and
how
Saint
George
made
an
Oration
to
his
Souldiers
.
AFter
the
seauen
Champions
of
Christendome
ariued
in
their
Natiue
Countries
,
and
by
true
reportes
had
blazed
abroade
to
euerie
Princes
eare
the
bloody
resolution
of
the
Pagans
,
&
how
the
Prouinces
of
Affrica
and
Asia
,
had
mustered
vp
their
forces
to
the
inuasion
of
Europe
.
All
Christian
Kinges
then
at
the
intreatie
of
the
Champions
,
appointed
mighty
Armies
of
wel
approoued
soldiers
both
by
sea
&
land
,
to
intercept
the
Infidels
wicked
intention
:
likewise
by
the
whole
consent
of
Christendome
,
the
Noble
and
Fortunate
Champion
of
England
saint
George
,
was
appointed
chiefe
Generall
,
and
principall
leader
of
the
Armies
,
and
the
other
sixe
Champions
elected
for
hys
Councell
,
and
chiefe
assistants
in
all
attempts
that
appertained
either
to
the
benefit
of
Christendome
,
or
the
furtherance
of
their
fortunate
procéedings
.
This
Honorable
warre
so
fired
the
hearts
of
many
youthfull
Gentlemen
,
and
so
incouraged
the
mindes
of
euery
common
Souldier
,
that
some
morgagde
their
lands
,
and
at
their
owne
proper
charges
furnished
themselues
:
Some
sold
their
Patrimonies
to
serue
in
this
Honorable
warres
:
and
other
some
forsooke
Parents
,
Kindred
,
Wife
,
Children
,
friends
and
acquaintance
,
and
without
constraint
of
pressing
,
offered
themselues
to
follow
so
Noble
a
Generall
,
as
the
renowned
Champion
of
England
,
and
to
spend
their
blood
in
the
iust
quarrell
of
their
Natiue
Countrie
.
To
be
briefe
,
one
might
beholde
the
stréetes
of
euerie
Towne
and
Cittie
throughout
all
the
Dominions
of
Europe
,
beautefied
with
Troupes
of
Souldiers
,
which
thirsted
after
nothing
but
Fame
and
Honour
.
Then
the
ioyfull
sound
of
thundring
Drums
,
and
the
ecchoes
of
siluer
Trumpets
summoned
them
to
Armes
,
that
followed
with
as
much
willingnes
,
as
the
Graecians
followed
Agamemnon
to
the
wofull
ouerthrow
of
Troy
:
for
by
that
time
the
Christian
Champions
had
sported
themselues
in
the
bosomes
of
their
kinde
Mistresses
▪
the
forward
Captaines
taken
leaue
of
their
Courtly
pastimes
,
and
the
willing
Souldiers
bidden
adue
to
their
friendes
&
acquaintance
,
the
spring
had
couered
the
earth
with
a
newe
liuerie
:
which
was
the
appointed
time
,
the
Christian
Armies
should
méete
in
Portingale
,
there
to
conioyne
their
seuerall
Troupes
into
one
Legion
:
which
promise
caused
the
Champions
to
bid
adue
to
their
Natiue
Countries
,
and
with
all
spéed
to
buckle
on
their
furnitures
,
and
to
hoyst
vp
sayles
:
where
after
a
short
time
,
the
winde
with
a
calme
and
prosperous
gale
,
cast
them
happely
into
the
bay
of
Portingale
.
The
first
that
ariued
into
that
spacious
Hauen
,
was
the
Noble
Champion
saint
George
,
with
a
hundred
thousand
of
couragious
English
Souldiers
,
whose
forwardnes
betokened
a
fortunate
successe
,
and
their
willing
mindes
a
ioyfull
victorie●
.
Hys
Armie
béeing
set
in
Battaile
ray
,
seemed
to
counteruaile
the
number
of
the
Macedonian
Souldiers
,
wherewith
worthy
Alexander
conquered
the
Westerne
world
:
hys
Horsemen
being
in
number
twenty
thousand
,
were
Armed
all
in
blacke
Corslets
:
their
Launces
bound
about
with
plates
of
stéele
:
their
Stéedes
couered
with
Ma●le
thrée
times
doubled
:
their
colours
were
the
sanguine
Crosse
,
supported
by
a
golden
Lyon
:
hys
sturdy
bowmen
,
whose
conquering
Gray-goose
wing
in
former
times
hath
terrified
the
cercled
earth
:
béeing
in
number
likewise
twentie
thousand
,
clad
all
in
red
Ma●dillians
,
with
Caps
of
the
same
colour
,
bearing
thereon
likewise
a
sanguine
Crosse
,
béeing
the
true
badge
and
honor
of
England
:
their
Bowes
of
the
strongest
Ewe
,
and
their
Arrowes
of
the
soundest
Ash
,
with
forked
heads
of
stéele
,
and
their
feathers
bound
on
with
gréene
wax
,
and
twisted
silke
:
his
Musketters
being
in
number
ten
thousand
,
their
Muskets
of
the
widest
bore
,
with
firelocks
wrought
by
curious
workemanship
,
yet
of
such
woonderfull
lightnes
,
that
they
required
no
rest
at
all
,
to
ease
their
headdy
ayming
armes
,
hi●
Caliuer
shotte
likewise
ten
thousand
of
the
smaller
timbred
men
,
but
yet
of
as
couragious
a
minde
as
the
tallest
souldier
in
his
Army
,
his
Pikes
and
Bill●s
,
to
guard
the
wauing
Aunsients
thirty
thousand
strong
,
clad
all
in
glistering
bright
Armour
,
likewise
followed
ten
thousand
labouring
Pioners
,
if
occasion
serued
to
vndermine
any
towne
or
castell
,
to
intrench
Forts
or
Sconses
,
or
to
make
a
passage
thorough
hilles
and
mountaines
,
as
worthy
Hanniball
did
when
as
he
made
away
for
hys
souldiers
through
the
loftie
Alphes
,
that
deuide
the
Countries
of
Italie
and
Spaine
:
The
next
that
ariued
within
the
bay
of
Portingale
,
was
the
Princelie
minded
Champion
saint
Dauid
of
Wales
with
an
Armie
of
fiftie
thousand
of
true
borne
Brittaines
,
furnished
with
all
habilliments
of
Warre
to
so
Noble
and
valiant
a
seruice
,
to
the
high
renowne
of
hys
countrie
and
true
Honour
of
hys
Progenie
:
their
Armour
in
richnes
nothing
inferiour
to
the
Englishm●ns
:
their
colours
were
a
golden
Crosse
,
supported
by
a
siluer
Griffon
:
which
Scutchion
signified
the
auncient
Armes
of
Wales
:
For
no
sooner
had
saint
George
a
sight
of
the
valiant
Brittaines
,
but
hée
caused
his
Musketters
presently
to
entertaine
them
with
a
voll●●
of
shotte
,
to
expresse
their
happie
and
ioyfull
welcome
to
shore
,
which
spéedely
they
performed
so
couragiously
with
such
a
ratling
noyse
as
though
the
firmaments
had
burst
in
sunder
,
and
the
earth
made
eccho
to
their
thundring
mellodie
.
But
no
sooner
were
the
skeyes
cleared
from
the
smoake
of
the
reaking
powder
,
and
that
saint
George
might
at
pleasure
deserue
the
Noble
and
Magnanimious
Champion
of
Wales
:
who
as
then
rode
vppon
a
milke-white
Hobbie
in
siluer
Armour
,
guarded
with
a
trai●e
of
Knights
in
purple
vest●res
,
but
hee
gréeted
saint
Dauid
with
kinde
curtesies
,
and
accompanied
him
to
the
English
Tent
,
which
they
had
erected
close
by
the
Port
side
,
where
for
that
night
these
two
Champions
remayned
spending
the
time
with
vnspeakeable
pleasure
,
and
so
vppon
the
next
day
after
saint
Dauid
departed
to
hys
owne
Tent
,
which
he
had
caused
to
be
pitcht
,
a
quarter
of
a
League
,
from
the
English
Armie
:
The
next
that
ariued
on
the
fruitfull
bankes
of
Portingale
,
was
saint
Pattrick
the
Noble
Champion
of
Ireland
,
with
an
Armie
likewise
of
●iftie
thousand
,
attired
after
a
straunge
and
woonderful●
manner
:
their
furnitures
were
of
the
skynnes
of
wilde
Beasts
:
but
yet
more
vnpearceable
than
the
strongest
Armour
of
proofe
:
they
bore
in
their
handes
mightie
Dartes
,
●ipt
at
the
end
with
pricking
stéele
,
which
the
couragious
and
valiant
Irish
〈◊〉
by
the
agillitie
of
their
armes
could
throw
a
〈…〉
mile
,
and
with
such
a
forcible
strength
,
that
they
woulde
strike
three
or
foure
inches
into
an
Oake
,
and
with
such
a
certaine
ayme
that
they
woulde
not
misse
the
bredth
of
a
foote
.
These
aduenterous
and
●ardie
Souldiers
no
〈◊〉
ariued
on
the
〈◊〉
,
but
the
English
M●sketters
gaue
them
a
Princely
entertainement
,
and
presently
conducted
the
Noble
minded
Champion
saint
Pattrick
to
the
English
Tent
:
where
the
three
Champions
of
England
,
Wales
,
and
Ireland
passed
away
the
time
with
〈◊〉
great
Royaltie
:
saying
downe
plots
how
to
pitch
their
Campes
to
the
most
disaduantage
of
the
m●●beléeuing
enemie
,
and
setting
downe
▪
perfect
directions
which
way
they
were
best
〈◊〉
martch
,
and
such
like
deuicies
for
their
owne
safeties
and
the
benefit
of
Christendome
:
The
next
that
landed
on
the
banckes
of
Portingale
,
was
saint
Andrew
the
worthie
Champion
of
Scotland
,
with
thréescore
thousand
of
well
approued
Souldiers
,
hys
horsem●n
the
●olde
aduent●●us
Gallowayes
,
clad
all
in
●uilted
Iacke●s
,
with
la●●es
of
the
Turkish
fashion
,
thicke
and
short
,
bearing
vpon
their
B●auers
th●
Armes
of
Scotland
,
which
was
a
corner
C●●sse
supported
by
a
naked
Uirgin
▪
his
Pikemen
the
〈…〉
hardie
men
of
Or●●die
,
which
continually
vseth
to
〈◊〉
vpon
the
freezing
Mountaines
,
the
Is●e
Rock●
&
the
Snowie
Uallyes
:
hys
shot
the
light
footed
Callidonians
,
that
if
ocsion
serue
,
can
climbe
the
highest
hill
,
and
●ee
nimblenes
in
running
▪
ouer
got
the
swift
footed
Sta●
.
These
bold
aduenterous
Scottishmen
in
al
forwardnes
,
deserued
as
much
honor
at
the
English
Champions
hands
▪
as
any
of
the
other
Nations
before
:
therefore
he
commanded
hys
shot
at
the
first
entrie
on
land
to
giue
them
a
Noble
entertainement
:
which
they
〈◊〉
most
Royall
▪
&
also
conducted
saint
Andrew
to
the
English
Tent
:
where
after
he
had
giued
S.
George
▪
the
curtesie
of
his
〈◊〉
,
departed
to
his
Tent
,
which
was
distant
from
the
English
Tent
a
mile
:
The
next
that
ariued
was
S.
Anthony
the
Champion
of
Italie
with
a
hand
of
foure
score
thousand
braue
Italian
Souldiers
mounted
on
warlike
Coursers
,
euerie
Horseman
attended
on
by
a
naked
Neger
,
bearing
in
hys
hand
a
Streamer
of
watchet
●ilke
,
with
the
Armes
of
Italie
thereon
set
in
gold
,
euery
footeman
furnished
with
approoued
furniture
,
in
as
stately
a
manner
as
the
Englishmen
:
who
at
their
landing
receaued
as
Royall
an
entertainment
,
as
the
other
Nations
,
and
likewise
saint
Anthonie
was
as
highly
honoured
by
the
English
Champion
,
as
any
of
the
other
Christian
Knights
:
The
next
that
ariued
was
saint
Dennis
the
victorious
Champion
of
Fraunce
,
with
a
ba●d
of
foure
score
thousand
:
After
him
marched
twelue
Dukes
,
of
twelue
seuerall
Dukedomes
,
béeing
then
vnder
the
gouernement
of
the
French
King
,
euery
one
at
hys
owne
proper
cost
and
charges
,
mainetaining
two
thousand
souldiers
in
these
Christian
warres
:
their
entertainments
were
as
glorious
as
the
rest
:
The
last
of
all
the
Christian
Champions
that
ariued
vppon
the
fruitfull
bankes
of
Portingale
,
was
the
Magnanimious
Knight
saint
Iames
of
Spaine
,
with
a
bande
likewise
of
foure
score
thousand
:
with
him
he
brought
from
the
Spanish
Mines
ten
tunne
of
refined
gold
,
onely
to
mainetaine
Souldiers
in
the
defence
of
Christendome
:
who
no
sooner
landed
with
his
Troups
▪
but
the
other
sixe
Champions
gaue
him
the
Honourable
welcome
of
a
Souldier
,
and
ordained
a
solemne
banket
for
the
generall
Armies
,
whose
number
iustly
surmounted
to
fiue
hundred
thousand
:
which
Legions
they
conioyned
into
one
Campe
Royall
,
and
after
placed
their
winges
and
squadrons
Battaile
wise
,
chiefely
by
the
direction
of
saint
George
,
béeing
then
chiefe
Generall
by
the
consent
of
the
Christian
Kinges
:
who
after
hee
had
ouerviewd
the
Christian
Armies
,
hys
co●●t●nance
séemed
to
pognosticate
a
Crowned
victorie
,
and
to
foretell
●
fatall
ouerthrow
to
the
misbeléeuing
Potentates
:
Therefore
to
incourage
hys
Princely
followers
to
perseuer
in
their
wonted
willingnes
,
pronoun●ed
this
Princely
Oration
.
You
men
of
Europe
(
said
he
)
&
my
country
men
,
whose
Conquering
fortunes
neuer
yet
hath
feared
the
enemies
of
Christ
:
you
sée
we
haue
forsooke
our
Natiue
Lands
,
and
committed
our
destenies
to
the
Quéene
of
chaunce
,
not
to
fight
in
any
vniust
quarrell
,
but
in
the
true
cause
of
Israels
annoynted
,
not
against
nature
to
climbe
the
heauens
as
Nemrod
and
the
Gyants
proffered
in
former
times
:
but
to
preuent
the
inuasion
of
Christendome
,
the
ruines
of
Europe
,
and
the
intended
ouerthrow
of
all
Christian
Prouinces
:
the
bloody
minded
Infidels
,
haue
mustred
vp
Legions
in
numbers
like
the
blades
of
grasse
,
that
growe
vppon
the
flourishing
Downes
of
Italy
,
or
the
starres
of
heauen
in
the
coldest
winters
night
,
protesting
to
fill
our
Countryes
with
seas
of
blood
,
to
scatter
our
stréets
with
mangled
limbs
and
conuert
our
glorious
Citties
into
flames
of
quenchles
fier
:
Therefore
deare
Countrimen
liue
not
to
sée
our
Christian
Uirgins
spoyld
by
lustfull
Rape
,
nor
dragde
along
our
stréetes
like
guiltles
Lambes
to
a
bloody
slaughter
:
Liue
not
to
sée
our
harmeles
Babes
with
brused
braynes
dasht
against
hard
flinty
stones
,
nor
liue
to
sée
our
vnlusty
age
,
whose
hayres
resemble
siluer
Mynes
,
lye
bléeding
on
the
Ma●ble
pauements
:
But
like
true
Christian
souldiers
fight
in
the
quarrell
of
your
Countries
:
What
though
the
Pagans
be
in
number
ten
to
one
:
yet
heauen
I
knowe
will
fight
for
Christendome
,
and
cast
them
downe
before
our
faces
,
like
drops
of
Aprill
showers
.
Bee
not
dismaied
to
see
their
men
in
ordered
rankes
,
nor
feare
not
when
you
behold
the
streamers
houering
in
the
wauing
winde
,
when
as
their
stéeled
Pikes
like
to
a
thornie
Forrest
will
ouerspread
whole
Countries
:
thousands
of
them
I
know
will
haue
no
hearts
to
fight
,
but
flye
with
cowardly
feare
like
flockes
of
shéepe
before
the
gréedie
Wolfe
.
I
am
the
leader
of
your
Noble
mindes
,
that
neuer
fought
in
vaine
,
nor
neuer
entered
battaile
but
returnde
with
Conquest
.
Then
euery
one
with
me
build
vpon
this
Princely
resolution
:
for
Christendome
fight
,
for
Christendome
we
liue
and
die
.
This
Souldierlike
Oration
being
no
sooner
finished
,
but
the
whole
Armie
with
a
generall
voice
cried
,
to
Armes
,
to
Armes
with
the
victorious
George
of
England
:
which
Noble
resolution
of
the
Souldiers
,
so
reioyced
the
English
Champion
,
and
likewise
incouraged
the
other
Christian
Champions
with
such
a
forwardnes
of
minde
,
that
they
gaue
speedy
▪
commandement
to
remoue
their
●ents
and
to
ma●tch
with
easie
iournies
towards
Tripolie
in
Barberie
,
where
Almidor
the
blacke
King
of
Moroco
had
hys
residence
:
In
which
trauaile
wee
must
leaue
for
a
while
the
Christian
Armie
,
and
speake
of
the
innumerable
Troups
of
Pagan
Knights
that
ariued
at
one
instant
in
the
Kingdome
of
Hungarie
,
and
how
they
fell
at
varience
in
the
election
of
a
Generall
:
which
ciuell
mutenie
caused
much
effucion
of
blood
,
to
the
great
hurt
both
of
Affrica
and
Asia
,
as
here
after
followeth
.
CHAP.
XIIII
.
Of
the
dessention
and
discord
that
hapned
amongst
the
Armie
of
the
Pagans
in
Hungarie
:
the
battlle
betwixe
the
Christians
and
the
Moores
in
Barberie
,
and
howe
Almidor
the
blacke
King
of
Moroco
was
sodden
to
death
in
a
cau●ldrone
of
boyling
leade
and
brimstone
.
THE
〈◊〉
Pagans
after
they
had
leuie●
their
Martiall
forces
both
by
Sea
and
Land
,
repaired
to
their
generall
place
of
méeting
,
thereto
conclude
of
the
vtter
co●fusion
of
Christendome
:
for
no
sooner
co●l●
Winter
withdrawe
his
chil●
frosts
from
the
earth
,
and
Flora
tooke
possession
of
hys
place
:
but
the
Kingdome
of
Hungarie
suffered
excessiue
pennurie
through
the
number●es
Armies
of
the
accursed
Infidels
,
béeing
their
appointed
place
of
méeting
:
For
though
Hungarie
of
all
other
Countries
both
in
Affrica
and
Asia
,
then
was
the
richest
,
and
plentifullest
of
victuals
to
mainetaine
a
Campe
of
men
:
yet
was
it
mightely
●uerprest
&
greatly
burthened
with
multitudes
:
not
onely
with
want
of
necessaries
to
releeue
souldiers
,
but
with
extreame
crueltie
of
those
bloody
minded
miscreants
,
that
through
a
ciuell
discorde
which
hapned
among●●
them
,
abou●
the
●lection
of
a
Generall
,
they
conuerted
their
vnitie
to
,
a
most
inhumane
slaughter
,
and
their
triumphant
victorie
to
a
dismall
bloody
Tragedy
:
For
no
sooner
ar●●ed
thier
Legions
vpon
the
plaines
of
Algernos
b●eing
in
length
and
breadt●
one
and
twentie
L●agues
:
but
the
King
of
Hungarie
caused
their
muster
Rolles
to
bee
publikely
read
,
&
iustly
numbred
in
the
hearing
of
the
Pagan
knights
,
which
in
this
maner
was
proclaimed
through
the
Campe
.
First
be
it
knowne
vnto
all
Nations
that
fights
in
the
quarrell
of
Affrica
and
Asia
vnder
the
conduct
of
our
three
great
Gods
,
Mahomet
,
Termigaunt
,
and
Apollo
:
what
inuincible
forces
be
now
ariued
in
this
renowned
Kingdome
of
Hungarie
,
a
Land
Honoured
through
the
worlde
,
not
only
for
Armes
:
but
curious
buildings
,
and
plentif●ed
with
all
manner
of
riches
.
First
we
haue
from
the
Emperour
of
Constantinople
two
hundred
thousand
Turkes
.
From
the
Emperour
of
Graecia
two
hundred
and
fiftie
thousand
.
From
the
Emperour
of
Tartarie
a
hundred
thréescore
and
thrée
thousand
.
From
the
Soldan
of
Persia
two
hundred
thousand
.
From
the
king
of
Ierusalem
foure
hundred
thousand
.
Of
Moores
one
hundred
&
twenty
thousand
.
Of
coleblacke
Negars
one
hundred
and
fortie
thousand
.
Of
Arabians
one
hundred
and
sixtie
thousand
.
Of
B●bilon●ans
one
hundred
thirtie
thousande
and
●dd●
.
Of
Armenians
one
Hundred
and
fiftie
Thousande
.
Of
Macedonians
two
hundred
and
ten
thousand
.
Of
Saracusians
fifteene
thousand
sixe
hundred
.
Of
Hungarians
three
hundred
and
sixe
thousand
.
Of
Sissillians
seauenteene
thousand
thrée
hundred
.
Of
Scythians
one
hundred
and
fiue
thousand
.
Of
Parthians
ten
thousand
and
three
hundred
.
Of
Phrigians
seauen
thousand
and
two
hundred
.
Of
Ethiopians
sixtie
thousand
.
Of
Thracians
a
eleauen
thousand
:
Likewise
from
the
Prouinces
of
Prester
Iohn
thrée
hundred
thousand
of
vnconquered
Knights
,
with
manye
other
pettie
Dominions
and
Dukedomes
:
whose
numbers
I
omit
for
this
time
,
lest
that
I
shoulde
séeme
ouer
tedious
to
the
reader
:
But
to
conclude
,
such
a
Campe
of
Armed
souldiers
ariued
in
Hungarie
,
that
might
in
one
month
haue
destroyed
Christendome
,
had
not
God
defended
them
from
those
barbarous
nation
,
and
by
his
inuincible
power
confounded
the
Pagans
in
their
owne
practises
:
For
no
sooner
had
the
Harrolds
proclaimed
through
the
Campe
what
number
of
Nations
ioyned
their
bandes
together
,
but
the
souldiers
fell
at
discention
one
with
another
about
the
election
of
a
Generall
:
some
vowe●
to
follow
none
but
the
king
of
Ierusalem
:
some
Ptolomie
the
Egiptian
King
:
and
some
the
Soldan
of
Persia
,
euerie
one
protesting
either
to
perse●er
in
their
own
willes
or
to
loose
their
liues
in
the
same
quarrell
.
Thus
in
this
manner
parties
were
taken
on
all
sides
,
not
only
by
the
meaner
sort
,
but
by
leaders
and
commaunders
of
bandes
:
whereby
the
King●●●
and
Potentates
,
were
forced
to
commit
their
willes
to
the
souldiers
pleasure
.
This
ciuell
broyle
so
d●scouraged
the
whole
Armie
,
that
manye
with
drew
their
forces
,
and
presently
marched
homewards
:
As
the
King
of
Moroco
with
hys
tawnie
Moores
and
cole-blacke
Negers
:
Likewise
the
Soldan
of
Persia
:
Ptolomie
the
Egiptian
King
:
The
Kinges
of
Arabia
and
Ierusalem
euery
one
departed
into
their
owne
countries
,
cur●●ng
the
time
they
attempted
first
so
vaine
an
enterprize
:
The
rest
not
minding
to
pocket
vp
abuse
,
●ell
from
brauing
boastes
,
to
downe
right
blows
,
wherby
grew
such
a
sharp
and
bloody
war
,
that
it
cost
more
souldiers
liues
,
than
the
ciuell
mutenie
at
the
destruction
of
Ierusalem
:
which
battaile
by
the
irefull
Pagans
,
continued
without
ceasing
for
the
space
of
three
monthes
:
In
which
Encounters
:
the
murthered
Infidels
like
scattered
corne
ouerspred
the
fields
of
Hungarie
:
the
fruitfull
valleyes
lay
drowned
in
purple
gore
:
the
fieldes
of
Corne
consumed
with
flames
of
fire
:
their
Townes
and
Citties
ruinated
with
wasting
warre
:
wherein
the
Fathers
were
sad
witnesses
of
their
Childrens
slaughters
,
and
the
Sonnes
beheld
their
Parents
reuerent
haires
,
more
whiter
than
trye●
siluer
,
besmeered
with
clodded
blood
:
there
might
the
Mothers
sée
their
harmelesse
Babes
b●rne
vp
and
●owne
the
streets
vpon
souldiers
Lances
:
there
might
they
sée
their
silken
ornamentes
and
riche
attire
in
pooles
of
blood
lye
swimming
vp
and
downe
:
there
might
the●
see
the
braines
of
honest
Dames
and
pure
Uirgi●s
da●●t
against
hard
●●intie
stones
:
there
might
they
〈◊〉
the●●
C●urts
&
Pallace●
by
souldi●rs
burned
to
the
ground
:
there
might
they
sée
howe
Councellers
in
their
Scarlet
gownes
lay
burning
in
the
fire
:
there
might
they
see
how
Kings
&
Queenes
were
arme
in
arme
consumed
to
ashes
:
there
might
they
behode
and
sée
howe
melted
gold
in
cho●ked
sinkes
lay
euerie
where
:
there
might
they
see
the
bloodiest
tragedies
that
euer
eye
beheld
,
and
the
woful●●
newes
that
euer
Christians
eare
heard
tolde
:
In
this
long
and
bloody
warre
,
one
sucking
child
was
not
left
aliue
to
report
the
story
to
insuing
ages
:
No
not
a
souldier
to
carry
Armes
throughout
the
Kingdome
of
Hungaria
,
so
●ustly
was
the
vengeance
of
God
throwne
vpon
the
heads
of
these
misbeléeuing
miscreants
▪
that
durst
attempt
to
lift
their
handes
against
hys
true
anoynted
Nations
:
for
no
doubt
but
the
inuincible
Armie
of
the
Pagans
,
had
ru●●●ted
the
borders
of
Europe
,
had
not
the
mightie
hand
of
God
with
hys
vnspeakeable
mercie
,
béene
Christendomes
defence
,
and
confounded
the
Infidels
in
their
owne
ciuell
warres
:
which
bloody
and
strange
ouerthrow
of
those
vnchristian
people
,
let
vs
for
euer
burie
in
the
lake
of
obliuion
,
and
perseuer
in
the
fortunate
procéedinges
of
the
seauen
Champions
●●
Christendome
,
who
had
entred
the
borders
of
Barberie
,
before
Almidor
the
blacke
king
of
Moroco
with
hys
scattered
Troupes
of
Moores
and
Negars
returned
from
Hungarie
,
and
by
fire
and
sword
,
had
wasted
●any
of
his
chiefest
T●wnes
and
Fortes
,
whereby
the
Countrie
was
much
weakned
,
and
the
Common●
compelled
to
sue
for
mercie
to
the
Champions
hands
:
who
bearing
〈◊〉
Christian
minds
within
their
hearts
continuall
〈◊〉
h●●boured
,
vouchsafed
to
graunt
me●cie
to
those
that
yeelded
their
li●es
to
the
pleasure
of
the
Christian
Knights
:
But
when
S.
George
had
intelligence
of
Almidors
approach
with
his
weakned
Troupes
,
presently
prepared
hys
Souldiers
in
readines
to
giue
the
Moores
a
bloody
banquet
:
which
was
the
next
morning
by
breake
of
●ay
perfourmed
to
the
high
honour
of
Christend●me
:
but
the
night
before
the
Moores
knowing
the
countrie
better
than
the
Christians
,
got
the
aduantage
both
of
winde
and
Sunne
:
whereat
Saint
George
being
something
displeased
,
but
yet
nothing
discouraged
,
imboldned
hys
souldies
with
many
Heroicall
spéeches
,
proffering
them
franklie
the
enemies
spoyles
,
and
so
with
the
Sunnes
vprising
entred
battell
,
where
the
Moores
fell
before
the
Christians
swords
,
as
eares
of
corne
before
the
reapers
f●●kle
:
During
this
conflict
,
the
seauen
Champions
still
in
the
fore●runt
of
the
battell
,
so
aduenturously
behaued
them selues
,
that
they
slew
more
Negars
than
a
hundred
of
the
brauest
Knights
in
the
Christian
Armies
:
At
last
Fortune
intending
to
make
saint
Georges
prowesse
to
shin●
brighter
than
the
rest
,
singled
out
the
Moroco
King
,
betwixt
whom
and
the
English
Champion
,
was
a
long
&
dangerous
fight
:
But
saint
George
so
couragiouslye
behaued
him
with
his
trustie
sword
,
that
Almidor
was
constrained
to
yeeld
〈◊〉
his
mercie
.
The
Armie
of
the
Moores
séeing
their
King
taken
prisoner
,
presently
would
haue
fled
:
but
that
the
Christians
béeing
the
lighter
of
foote
,
ouertooke
them
,
and
made
the
greatest
slaughter
that
euer
hapned
in
Barberie
.
Thus
after
the
battell
ended
,
and
the
ioyfull
sound
of
victorie
rung
through
the
Christian
Armie
,
the
souldiers
furnished
themselues
with
the
enemies
spoyles
,
and
martched
by
saint
Georges
direction
to
the
Cittie
of
Tripolie
,
being
then
almost
vnpeopled
through
the
late
slaughter
:
In
which
Cittie
after
they
had
r●sted
some
few
dayes
,
and
refreshed
themselues
with
holsome
food
,
the
English
Champion
in
reuenge
of
his
former
proffered
iniuries
by
the
Moroco
King
,
gaue
hys
seuere
sentence
of
death
:
First
hee
commaunded
a
brazen
cauldron
to
bee
filled
with
boyling
Lead
and
Brimstone
:
then
Almidor
to
be
brought
to
the
place
of
death
by
twelue
of
the
Noblest
Pieres
in
Barberie
,
therein
to
be
consumed
,
flesh
,
blood
,
and
bone
:
which
was
duelie
performed
within
seauen
dayes
following
,
the
brazen
cauldron
was
erected
by
the
appointment
of
saint
George
,
directlie
in
the
middle
of
the
chiefest
Market
place
,
vnder
which
a
mightie
hot
fire
continually
burned
,
for
the
space
of
of
eight
and
fortie
houres
:
whereby
the
boyling
Lead
and
B●imstone
seemed
to
sparckle
like
the
fierie
furnaces
in
hell
,
and
the
heate
to
e●ceede
the
burning
Ouen
at
Babilon
.
Thus
all
thinges
béeing
no
sooner
prepared
in
a
readines
,
&
the
Christian
Champions
present
to
behold
the
wofull
spectakle
;
but
the
condemned
Black●more
King
came
to
the
place
of
Execution
,
in
a
shirt
of
the
finest
Indian
silk
,
his
hands
pinniond
together
with
a
chaine
of
gold
,
&
his
face
couered
with
a
Damske
Scarfe
,
his
attendants
,
&
chiefe
conducters
,
twelue
Moroco
Pieres
,
clad
in
Sabl●
gownes
of
Taffetie
,
carring
before
him
the
whéele
of
fortune
,
with
the
picture
of
a
Usurper
climbing
vp
,
with
this
Motto
on
his
breast
:
I
will
be
king
in
spite
of
Fortune
:
vpon
the
top
of
the
whéele
,
the
picture
of
a
Monarke
vaunting
with
this
Motto
on
his
breast
:
I
am
a
King
in
spite
of
Fortune
:
Lastly
on
the
other
side
of
the
Wheele
,
the
picture
or
perfect
image
of
a
deposed
Potentate
,
falling
with
hys
head
downewards
,
with
this
Motto
on
hys
breast
:
I
haue
beene
a
King
so
pleaseth
Fortune
:
which
plainelie
signified
the
chaunce
of
warre
,
and
the
constancie
of
destenie
:
hys
guard
was
a
thousand
Christian
souldiers
,
holding
fortune
in
disdaine
:
after
them
attended
a
hundred
of
Moroco
virgins
in
blacke
ornaments
,
their
haire
bounds
vp
with
siluer
wiers
,
and
couered
with
vales
of
black
silke
,
signifiing
the
sorrow
of
their
countrie
for
the
losse
of
their
Soueraigne
.
In
this
mournefull
manner
came
the
vnfortunate
Almidor
to
the
boyling
C●ulderne
:
which
when
he
beheld
,
hys
heart
waxed
cold
,
and
his
tongue
d●ueide
of
vtterance
for
a
time
:
yet
at
last
he
brake
foorth
into
thes●
earnest
protestations
,
proffering
more
for
his
life
than
the
whole
Kingdome
of
Barberie
can
performe
.
Most
mightie
&
inuincible
Champion
of
Christendome
(
quoth
he
)
let
my
life
be
ransomed
,
and
thou
sh●l●
yearely
receaue
ten
tunnes
of
●ried
gold
,
a
hundred
inchs
of
wouen
silke
,
the
which
our
Indian
maides
shall
sit
and
spinne
●ith
siluer
whéeles
:
a
hundred
Arguses
of
spices
and
●efined
suger
,
shal
be
yearely
paid
thee
by
our
Barberie
〈◊〉
:
a
hundred
waggons
likewise
richly
laden
wit●
〈◊〉
a●d
Iasper
stones
,
which
by
our
cunning
Lapidisies
●hall
〈◊〉
yearelie
chosen
foorth
and
brought
●hee
home
to
England
,
●o
make
that
blessed
countrie
the
richest
land
within
the
Dominions
of
Europe
:
Likewise
I
will
deliuer
vp
my
Diadem
,
with
all
my
Princely
dignities
,
and
in
companie
of
these
Moroco
Lordes
,
like
bridled
Horses
drawe
thée
daylie
in
a
siluer
Charriot
vp
and
downe
the
ser●led
earth
,
til
death
giues
end
to
our
liues
Pilgrimage
:
Therefore
most
admired
Knight
at
Armes
,
let
these
salt
teares
that
trickle
from
the
Conduits
of
my
eyes
,
obtaine
one
graunt
of
comfort
at
thy
handes
,
for
on
my
bended
knées
I
beg
for
life
,
that
neuer
before
this
time
did
kneele
to
any
mortallman
.
Thou
speakst
in
vaine
(
replyed
saint
George
)
it
is
not
the
treasures
hidden
in
the
déepest
seas
,
nor
all
the
golden
mines
of
rich
America
that
can
redéeme
thy
life
:
thou
knowest
accursed
Homicide
,
thy
wicked
practises
in
the
Egyptian
Court
,
where
thou
profferedst
wrongfully
to
bereaue
me
of
my
life
:
Likewise
through
thy
treachery
,
I
end●red
a
long
imprisonment
in
Persia
:
where
for
seauen
yeares
I
dranke
the
Channell
water
,
and
suffizde
my
hunger
with
the
breads
of
branne
meale
:
My
foode
the
loathsome
flesh
of
Rats
and
Mice
,
and
my
resting
place
a
dismall
dungeon
,
where
neither
sunne
nor
the
chearefull
light
of
heauen
lent
me
comfort
during
my
long
continued
misery
:
For
which
inhumane
dealing
and
proffered
iniuries
,
the
h●auens
inforceth
mee
to
a
spéedy
reuenge
,
which
in
this
manner
shall
be
accomplished
.
Thou
seest
the
Engine
prepared
for
thy
death
,
this
brazen
Caldron
fild
with
boyling
lead
and
brimstone
,
wherein
thy
cursed
body
shall
be
spéedily
cast
,
and
boyled
till
thy
detested
limbs
bee
consumed
,
to
a
watry
s●bstance
,
by
this
sparckling
lickour
:
therefore
prepare
thy selfe
to
entertaine
the
violent
stroake
of
death
,
and
willingly
byd
all
thy
kingly
dignities
farewell
:
But
yet
I
let
thée
vnderstand
,
that
mercy
harboreth
in
a
Christians
hart
,
and
where
mercy
dwels
there
faults
are
forgiuen
vppon
some
humble
penetence
,
though
thy
trespasse
deserues
〈◊〉
pitty
,
but
seuere
punishment
,
yet
vpon
these
considerations
I
will
graunt
thée
liberty
of
life
:
First
that
thou
wilt
forsake
thy
false
Gods
Termagaunt
,
Mahomet
,
and
Apollo
:
which
he
but
the
vayne
imaginations
of
man
:
and
beléeue
in
our
true
and
euer
liuing
God
,
vnder
whose
banner
we
Christians
haue
taken
in
hande
this
long
warre
:
Secondly
thou
shalt
giue
commandement
,
that
all
thy
barbarous
Nations
be
christened
in
the
faith
of
Christ
:
Thirdly
and
lastly
,
that
thy
thrée
Kingdomes
of
Barbary
,
Moroco
&
India
,
sweare
true
alleagance
to
all
Christian
Kings
,
and
neuer
to
beare
Armes
,
but
in
the
true
quarrell
of
Christ
and
his
annoynted
Nations
.
These
things
duly
obserued
,
thy
life
shall
be
preserued
,
and
thy
liberty
obtayned
,
otherwise
looke
for
no
mercy
,
but
a
spéedy
and
most
●yr●ible
death
.
These
wordes
more
displeased
the
vnchristian
King
of
Morco
,
than
the
sentence
of
his
condemnation
,
and
in
these
briefe
spéeches
set
downe
his
resolution
.
Great
Potentate
of
Europe
(
replied
Almidor
)
by
whose
mightines
fortune
sits
fettered
in
the
chaines
of
power
,
my
golden
Diadem
and
regall
Scepter
by
constraint
I
must
deliuer
vp
:
but
before
I
forsake
my
countrie
Gods
,
I
will
indure
a
hundred
deathes
,
and
before
my
conscience
be
reformed
to
a
new
faith
,
the
earth
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
offence
to
God
,
and
a
continuall
corrasiue
to
my
husbands
heart
if
we
liue
together
:
Therefore
accursed
monsters
prosecute
your
tyrranie
:
It
is
not
all
your
threates
and
bloodie
dealinges
shall
conuert
my
chaste
minde
,
nor
once
inforce
my
thoughtes
to
giue
any
consent
thereunto
.
These
wordes
béeing
no
sooner
ended
,
but
the
lu●●full
Moore
tooke
an
other
of
her
children
and
stabed
before
h●r
husbands
face
,
thincking
therby
to
fore
the
Marchant
to
intreate
his
wife
to
consent
to
the
wicked
N●gars
determinations
,
but
he
beeing
as
resolute
as
his
vertuous
wife
(
spake
in
this
manner
.
O
you
cursed
blacke
Dogges
of
Barberie
!
more
worse
in
quallitie
than
the
bloody
Tygers
,
and
more
merciles
than
the
wicked
Cannibals
:
thinke
you
that
the
murther
of
our
children
shall
inforce
our
hearts
to
yéelde
to
your
lustful
desiers
:
N●
no
,
perseuer
in
your
tyrranies
:
if
I
had
a
hundred
children
,
twice
the
number
of
King
Priams
,
yet
would
I
loose
them
all
,
before
I
will
indure
to
see
my
wiues
dishonor
:
children
may
be
gotten
agayne
but
hir
honor
neuer
recouered
.
These
words
pricked
the
Negars
to
the
gall
and
caused
them
to
commit
the
wickedst
déede
that
euer
was
practised
vnder
the
celestiall
Globe
of
heauen
:
First
they
sheathed
there
Poniards
in
the
breastes
of
all
the
Marchantes
children
,
whose
guiltles
blood
stay●d
all
the
chamber
with
a
crimson
colour
,
then
with
there
Fauchions
did
they
cu●
there
bodies
all
in
sunder
,
and
caused
seauen
P●es
to
be
made
of
there
flesh
,
and
after
serued
in
a
banquet
to
there
wofull
Parents
,
whome
the
merciles
Moores
set
at
a
square
table
,
the
Marchant
placed
directly
opposite
against
his
wife
,
wher
they
were
constrained
either
to
féede
vpon
there
owne
children
,
or
starue
for
want
of
other
sustenance
.
This
wofull
spectakle
stroke
such
a
griefe
into
the
English
Marchants
heart
,
that
hee
could
scarce
indure
to
speake
for
wéeping
:
hys
wife
when
shee
behold
the
heades
of
her
louelie
sonnes
lying
vpon
the
table
,
as
it
were
looking
to
heauen
for
reuenge
,
breathed
fort●
this
woful
dying
lamentation
.
O
sillie
Babes
,
I
would
you
had
béene
strangled
in
my
wombe
at
your
first
conception
:
then
should
not
these
accursed
Infidels
haue
triumpht
thus
in
your
●nhappie
Tragedies
:
Nor
your
vnfortunate
Parentes
beh●ld
this
luckles
day
:
whereon
I
pray
that
neuer
S●nne
may
shine
againe
,
but
bee
accounted
an
ominous
day
throughout
the
whole
earth
,
for
heauen
I
hope
(
poore
Babes
)
will
raigne
a
showre
of
vengeance
on
their
heades
that
hath
caused
this
your
vntimelie
death
,
and
with
this
praier
I
bit
the
world●
fa●●well
.
At
which
wordes
her
griefe
so
excéeded
the
boundes
of
reason
,
that
it
stayed
the
passage
of
her
spéech
:
whereby
she
was
forced
to
yéeld
her
soule
to
the
Paradice
of
peace
.
Shée
béeing
no
sooner
dead
but
the
sorrowfull
Marchant
likewise
biterly
exclaimed
against
the
iniustice
of
Fortune
,
and
the
tyrranie
of
the
barbarous
Moores
,
accounting
his
destenie
more
ha●les
than
the
Thracian
Kinges
,
that
buried
his
children
in
hys
owne
Bowels
:
and
the
cruelties
of
the
Infidels
to
excéed
the
tyrranie
of
Nero
,
that
caused
hys
Mothers
wombe
to
be
opened
,
that
hee
might
beholde
the
place
of
hys
creation
:
but
when
the
Marchant
had
sufficiently
bewailed
the
murther
of
hys
children
,
the
death
of
his
wife
,
and
hys
owne
miserie
,
he
yéelded
hys
soule
likewise
to
the
furious
stroke
of
death
:
The
end
of
whose
long
languishments
when
the
wicked
Moores
had
intelligence
▪
they
caused
their
dead
bodies
to
be
carried
to
the
top
of
a
hi●h
mountaine
,
and
there
left
for
the
pray
of
hungrie
Rauens
:
But
God
most
miraculously
preserued
them
both
from
the
furie
of
Foules
,
and
the
violence
of
rauenous
beasts
,
for
the
su●
consumed
their
bodies
like
the
morninges
dew
,
and
by
the
w●nderfull
workemanship
of
heauen
,
in
the
s●me
place
sprung
a
bower
of
Roses
,
to
signifie
the
vnspotted
honour
of
the
Marchant
and
his
vertuous
wife
:
which
miracle
wee
leau●
to
the
woonder
of
the
Moores
,
and
speake
of
the
Christian
Champions
procéedinges
,
that
by
this
time
were
ariued
in
the
Kingdome
of
Egipt
.
CHAP.
XV.
How
the
Christians
ariued
in
Egipt
,
and
what
hapned
to
them
there
:
the
Tragedie
of
the
lustfull
Earle
of
Couentrie
:
how
Sabra
was
bound
to
a
stake
to
be
burned
,
&
how
Saint
George
redeemed
her
:
lastly
how
the
Egiptian
king
cast
himselfe
from
the
toppe
of
a
Tower
and
broake
hys
necke
.
DUring
the
time
of
the
bloodie
murther
wrought
by
the
barbarous
Moores
vpon
the
English
Marchant
and
hys
Wife
,
with
his
seauen
Children
as
you
hearde
in
the
former
Chapter
,
the
Champions
of
Christendome
ariued
vppon
the
Territories
of
Egipt
,
where
they
supposed
to
haue
met
with
Legions
of
Armed
Souldiers
,
and
to
haue
aduentured
their
liues
vpon
the
chaunce
of
Warre
:
but
all
things
fell
out
contrarie
to
their
expectations
,
for
they
founde
the
Gates
of
euerie
Cittie
set
open
,
and
euerie
Uillage
and
Towne
vnpeopled
:
for
the
Commos
at
the
report
of
the
Christians
ariuall
,
secretly
hid
their
treasure
in
the
Caues
of
the
earth
,
in
déepe
Welles
,
and
such
like
obscure
places
,
and
a
generall
feare
and
extreame
terrour
assailed
the
Egiptians
:
as
well
the
Pieres
of
the
Land
,
as
the
simple
countrie
people
:
Many
fled
into
woods
and
wildernesses
,
&
closelie
hid
themselues
in
hollow
trées
:
Many
digged
caues
in
the
ground
,
where
they
thought
best
to
remaine
in
safetie
,
and
many
fled
to
high
mountaines
,
where
they
long
tim●
liued
in
great
extreamity
,
féeding
vppon
the
grasse
of
the
ground
:
So
greatly
the
Egiptians
feared
the
Armie
of
Christians
,
that
they
expected
nothing
but
the
ruine
of
their
owne
countrie
,
with
the
losse
of
their
owne
liues
,
and
the
murther
of
their
wiues
and
Children
.
But
to
speake
of
the
Christian
Champions
:
who
finding
the
countrie
desolate
of
people
,
suspected
some
déepe
pollicie
of
the
Egiptians
,
thinking
them
to
haue
mustered
their
generall
forces
to
bid
them
battaile
:
therefore
Saint
George
gaue
commaundement
through
the
whole
Campe
,
that
not
a
man
vpon
paine
of
death
shuld
breake
his
ranke
,
but
martch
aduisedlie
with
thrée
weapons
ready
prest
to
enter
battaile
,
as
though
the
enemie
had
directly
plast
themselues
opposite
against
them
:
which
speciall
charge
the
Christian
Souldiers
dulie
obserued
,
looking
neyther
after
the
wealth
of
Citties
,
nor
the
spoyle
of
Uillages
,
but
circumspectly
martched
according
to
their
leaders
directions
,
along
the
Countrie
of
Egipt
,
till
they
approached
the
sight
of
King
Ptolomies
Court
:
which
when
the
noble
Champion
of
England
beheld
,
in
this
manner
incouraged
hee
hys
followers
.
Behold
(
saide
hée
)
you
inuincible
Captaines
of
Christendome
yonder
cursed
Towers
where
wicked
Ptolomie
kéepes
hys
Court
,
those
Battlements
I
say
,
were
they
as
richlie
built
as
great
Piramides
of
Greece
,
yet
shoulde
they
be
subuerted
and
laid
as
leuell
with
the
ground
,
as
the
Cittie
of
Carthage
:
there
hath
that
accursed
Ptolomie
hy●
residence
,
that
for
preseruing
his
Daughter
from
the
burning
Dragon
,
trecherouslie
sent
me
into
Persia
,
where
for
seauen
yeares
I
liued
in
great
extreamie
in
a
dismall
dungeon
,
where
the
Sunne
did
neuer
lend
me
light
,
nor
the
companie
of
people
comfort
:
In
reuenge
wherof
,
my
hart
shall
neuer
rest
in
quiet
till
I
sée
the
buildinges
of
his
Pallace
set
on
fire
,
and
conuerted
into
a
place
of
desolation
,
like
●o
the
glorious
Cittie
in
Phrigia
,
nowe
ouerspread
with●
stin●king
wéedes
and
loathsome
puddles
:
Therefore
let
a●
Christian
Souldiers
,
that
fights
vnder
the
banner
of
Christendome
,
and
all
that
loues
George
of
England
your
chosen
Generall
,
draw
forth
their
warlike
weapons
,
and
like
the
angry
Greekes
ouerturne
these
glistring
Battlements
,
leaue
not
one
stone
vpon
another
,
but
lay
it
as
leuell
with
the
ground
,
as
the
haruest
reapers
●at
the
fields
of
ripened
corne
:
let
your
wrathfull
furies
fall
vppon
these
Towers
like
droppes
of
Aprill
showers
,
or
like
a
storme
of
winters
haile
,
that
it
may
be
bruted
through
the
world
,
what
lustful
vengeance
did
light
vpon
the
pride
of
Egipt
:
Leaue
not
(
I
say
)
as
●ou
loue
your
Generall
,
when
you
haue
subuerted
the
Pallace
not
one
man
aliue
,
no
not
a
sucking
babe
,
but
let
them
suffer
vengeance
for
the
wickednes
of
their
King
.
This
is
my
decrée
braue
Knights
of
Christendome
:
therefore
martch
forward
,
Heauen
and
Fortune
bee
your
good
spéede
.
At
which
wordes
the
souldiers
gaue
a
generall
shoute
in
signe
of
their
willing
mindes
.
Then
began
the
s●●ken
streamers
to
flourish
in
the
aire
,
the
Drums
chearefully
to
sound
forward
,
the
siluer
Trumpets
recorded
ecchoes
of
victorie
,
the
barbed
Stéedes
grew
proude
of
this
attempt
,
&
would
●●and
vpon
no
ground
,
but
leapt
and
daun●t
with
as
much
courage
as
did
Bucephalus
the
horse
of
Macedonian
Alexander
alwaies
before
any
notable
victorie
,
yea
euery
thing●
gaue
an
euident
signe
of
good
successe
,
as
well
sensles
things
as
liuing
creatures
.
With
this
resolution
martched
the
Cstristians
,
purposing
the
vtter
confusion
of
the
Egiptians
,
and
the
wofull
ruine
and
destruction
of
Ptolomies
sumptuous
Pallace
:
but
when
the
Souldiers
approached
the
gates
with
wrathfull
weapons
,
ready
to
assault
,
there
came
pacing
out
thereat
the
Egiptian
King
,
with
all
the
chiefest
of
his
Nobles
attired
in
blacke
and
mourn●full
ornaments
,
bearing
in
their
hands
Oliue
branches
:
next
them
the
brauest
souldiers
in
Egipt
,
bearing
in
their
handes
broken
weapons
,
shiuered
Launces
,
and
t●rne
Auncients
:
Likewise
followed
thousands
of
women
&
children
,
with
Lawrell
wreathes
about
their
heads
,
&
in
their
handes
Oliue
braunches
crying
for
mercie
to
the
Christians
,
that
they
would
not
vtterlie
destroy
their
declining
countrie
,
but
shew
mercie
to
vnhappie
Egipt
.
This
vnexspected
sight
,
or
rather
admirable
woonder
,
caused
saint
George
to
sound
retreate
,
and
gaue
commandement
through
the
Christian
Armie
,
to
withhold
their
former
vowed
vengeance
from
the
Egiptians
,
till
hee
vnderstoode
what
they
required
:
which
charge
being
giuen
and
o●ely
obserued
,
saint
George
with
the
other
six
Champions
came
together
,
and
admitted
the
Egiptian
king
wi●h
their
powers
to
their
presence
,
who
in
this
manner
began
to
speake
for
hys
countrie
.
You
vnconquered
knights
of
Christendome
,
whose
worthie
victories
&
Noble
atchiuements
,
the
whole
worlde
admires
,
let
him
that
neuer
knéeled
to
any
man
t●ll
nowe
,
and
in
former
times
disdained
to
humble
hims●lfe
to
the
greatest
Potentate
on
the
earth
:
Let
him
I
say
,
the
most
vnfortunate
wretch
aliue
craue
mercie
,
not
for
my selfe
,
but
for
my
countrie
:
my
Common●
blood
wil
be
required
at
my
ha●d●
:
our
murthered
Infants
will
call
to
heauen
for
reuenge
,
and
our
slaughtered
Widdowes
cryes
s●nk●
downe
to
hel
for
reuenge
:
so
will
the
vengeaunce
of
heauen
light
vppon
my
soule
,
and
the
curse
of
hel
vpon
〈…〉
renowned
Champions
of
England
,
vnder
whose
cu●todie
my
deare
daugh●er
is
kept
,
e●●n
for
the
loue
of
her
be
mercifull
to
Egipt
:
The
former
wronges
I
proffered
thee
,
when
I
sent
thée
like
a
guiltles
Lamb
into
Persia
was
contrarie
to
my
will
:
For
I
was
incenst
by
the
flatterie
of
that
accursed
Blackamon●e
King
:
whose
soule
for
euermore
hee
scourged
with
whips
of
wier
,
and
plagued
with
the
punish●●●t
of
Tantalus
in
hell
:
If
my
life
will
serue
for
a
〈◊〉
re●enge
,
here
is
my
naked
breast
:
let
my
hart
blood
st●ine
some
Christian-sword
,
that
you
may
beare
the
bloody
wi●hes
of
my
〈◊〉
into
Christendome
or
let
me
be
torn●
into
a
thousand
p●eces
,
by
〈◊〉
vntamed
Stéeds
,
as
was
Hippolitus
the
Son
of
The●●●s
in
hys
charmed
Charriot
.
Most
mightie
controulers
of
the
worlde
,
commaund
the
dearest
thinges
in
Egipt
,
they
be
at
your
pleasures
,
we
will
forsake
our
Gods
,
and
beléeue
in
that
God
which
you
commonly
adore
,
for
he
is
the
true
and
liuing
God
,
ours
false
&
hatefull
in
the
sight
of
heauen
.
This
penitent
lamentation
of
the
Egiptian
King
caused
the
Christian
Champions
to
relent
,
but
especially
Saint
George
:
who
hauing
a
hart
beautified
with
the
welspring
of
pittie
,
not
onely
graunted
mercie
to
the
whole
Country
,
but
vouchsafed
Ptolomie
libertie
of
life
,
vppon
condition
that
he
would
performe
what
he
had
promised
:
which
was
to
forsake
hys
false
gods
,
&
beleeue
in
our
true
God
,
Christ
Iesus
.
This
kindenes
of
saint
George
almost
rauished
Ptolomie
with
ioy
,
and
the
whole
land
,
both
Pieres
and
Commons
more
reioyced
at
the
friendshippe
of
the
Christians
,
than
if
they
had
béene
made
Lordes
of
the
westerne
world
.
The
newes
of
this
happie
vnetie
,
was
bruted
into
all
the
partes
of
Egipt
:
whereby
the
commons
that
before
fled
for
feare
into
woods
and
wildernesses
,
dens
and
caues
,
hils
and
mountaines
,
returned
ioyfully
to
their
own
dwellings
,
and
caused
bonefires
to
be
made
in
euerie
Cittie
,
Towne
,
&
Uillage
,
the
Bels
of
Egipt
rung
day
and
night
,
for
the
space
of
three
monthes
:
in
euerie
place
was
séene
banquetting
▪
dauncing
and
masking
,
sorrow
was
banished
,
warres
forgotten
,
and
peace
proclaimed
.
The
King
at
his
owne
charges
ordained
a
sumptuous
&
costlie
banquet
for
the
Christian
Champions
:
wherein
for
bountie
it
excéeded
that
which
the
Troianes
made
when
Paris
returned
from
Greece
with
the
conquest
of
Menalaus
Quéene
.
The
banquetting
house
was
built
with
Cipresse
wood
,
couered
with
the
purest
Adamant
stone
:
so
that
neither
stéele
nor
bace
Iron
could
come
therein
,
but
it
was
presently
drawen
to
the
top
of
the
rooffe
:
as
for
the
varietie
of
seruices
,
which
graced
forth
the
banquet
,
it
were
too
tedious
to
repeate
:
but
to
be
briefe
,
what
both
the
Land
&
Sea
▪
could
afford
b●●re
there
present
〈◊〉
The
〈◊〉
that
attende●
the
C●ampions
a●
the
banquet
,
wer●
〈◊〉
in
da●maske
vestments
wrought
with
the
purest
〈…〉
Indian
virgins
spin
vpon
their
siluer
whéeles
:
at
euerie
course
the
seruit●rs
brought
in
,
a
Consort
of
Egiptian
Ladies
vppon
their
Iuorie
Lu●es
,
strayned
forth
such
admired
Harmonie
,
that
it
surpassed
Arions
musicke
〈…〉
when
hee
was
cast
into
the
Se●
,
caused
the
〈…〉
himsa●e
on
the
〈…〉
swéetnes
of
Orpheus
〈…〉
,
which
made
both
〈◊〉
and
trées
to
daunce
,
or
the
mel●odie
of
Apollos
inspiring
musicke
,
when
he
descended
from
heauen
for
the
loue
of
D●aphne
.
These
pleasures
so
rauished
the
Christian
Champions
,
that
the●●
forg
of
the
sound
of
warlike
Drummes
that
were
wont
〈◊〉
call
them
forth
to
bloody
battailes
:
But
these
delightes
continued
but
a
short
time
,
for
there
ariued
a
knight
from
England
that
brought
such
vnexspected
newes
to
saint
George
,
which
chaunged
his
ioyes
into
extreame
sorrowe
,
for
af●er
this
manner
began
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
in
his
vayne
conceite
.
At
last
the
scouling
night
with
pitchy
clowdes
beganne
to
ouerspread
the
brightsome
heauens
,
wherby
he
was
forced
to
repayre
homewards
,
and
to
smother
vp
his
loue
in
silence
,
no
quiete
sléepe
that
night
could
enter
in
his
eye
,
but
fond
and
restles
dreames
,
sometimes
he
thought
hee
had
his
louely
Mistresse
in
his
Armes
,
dallying
like
the
Paphian
Quéene
vpon
her
Minnions
knée
,
but
presently
awaking
,
he
found
it
but
a
glyding
shadowe
,
which
added
newe
griefe
to
his
louesicke
passions
:
then
by
and
by
hee
thought
he
sawe
howe
the
wrathfull
Champion
with
dreadfull
bloody
Fauchion
,
came
to
reuenge
his
Ladies
rauishment
,
whereat
the
troubled
Earle
started
from
his
bed
,
and
with
lowde
voyce
cryed
to
his
Chamberlayne
for
helpe
,
and
howe
saint
George
was
come
to
murther
him
:
which
sodaine
outcry
not
onely
awaked
the
Chamberlayne
but
the
whole
house
:
which
generally
came
to
beare
him
company
,
they
set
vp
Camphire
Tapors
to
giue
light
,
and
made
him
Musicke
to
comfort
him
,
and
to
driue
all
fond●
fancies
from
his
minde
:
but
no
sooner
c●ased
the
Musicke
,
but
he
fell
into
his
former
cogitations
,
pondering
in
his
minde
,
which
way
he
might
obtaine
his
purpose
,
whereat
a
dismall
night
Rauen
beat
her
winges
against
his
Chamber
window
,
and
with
a
harsh
voyce
,
gaue
him
warning
of
a
bad
successe
:
then
presently
began
the
Tapors
to
burne
blue
as
though
a
troope
of
ghastly
spirits
did
encompasse
his
lodging
,
which
was
an
euident
signe
,
that
some
straunge
and
vnhappy
murther
would
shortly
follow
:
All
which
coulde
nothing
withdrawe
the
lustfull
Earle
from
his
wicked
enterprise
,
nor
conuert
his
minde
from
the
spoyle
of
so
swéete
a
Lady
.
In
this
manner
spent
he
the
night
away
,
till
the
Sunnes
bright
countenance
summoned
him
●●om
his
re●●lesse
bed
,
from
whence
béeing
no
sooner
risen
,
●ut
he
〈…〉
the
Steward
of
his
house
,
and
gaue
him
a
charge
to
prouide
a
most
sumptuous
and
costly
banquet
,
for
he
intended
to
inuite
thereunto
all
the
principall
Ladyes
in
Cou●●try
:
what
bountefull
cheare
was
●rouided
,
I
thinke
it
〈◊〉
to
repeat
,
but
to
be
short
,
at
the
time
and
houre
appointed
the
inuited
Ladies
repayred
:
the
banquet
was
brought
in
by
the
Earles
seruants
,
and
placed
vppon
the
table
by
the
Earle
himselfe
▪
who
after
manie
welcomes
giuen
,
began
thus
to
moue
the
Ladies
delight
.
I
thinke
my
house
most
highlie
honoured
(
said
hee
)
that
you
haue
vouchsafed
to
grace
it
with
your
presence
:
for
mée
thinkes
you
beautefie
my
hall
,
as
the
twinckling
starres
beautefie
the
vale
of
heauen
:
but
amongst
the
number
of
you
all
▪
you
haue
a
Cinthia
,
a
glistring
siluer
Moone
,
that
for
brightnes
excéedeth
all
the
rest
:
for
she
is
fairer
than
the
Quéene
of
Cipresse
:
louelier
than
Dido
when
Cupid
sat●
vppon
her
knee
,
wiser
than
the
Prophetesse
of
Troy
:
Of
personage
more
comlier
than
the
Graecian
Dame
,
and
of
more
Maiestie
than
the
Quéene
of
heauen
:
so
that
all
the
Muses
with
their
Iuorie
pens
,
may
write
eternallie
,
and
yet
not
sufficiently
discribe
her
excellent
ornaments
of
nature
.
This
commendation
caused
a
generall
smile
of
the
Ladies
,
&
made
them
looke
one
vpon
another
whome
it
should
bée
:
Many
other
Courtlike
discourses
pronounced
the
Earle
,
to
moue
the
Ladies
delight
,
till
the
vanquet
endded
:
which
béeing
finished
,
there
came
in
certaine
Gentlemen
,
by
the
Earles
appointment
with
most
excellent
Musicke
:
other
s●me
that
daunced
most
curiously
,
with
as
much
Maiestie
as
Paris
in
the
Graecian
Court
:
At
last
the
Earle
requested
one
of
them
to
choose
out
hys
beloued
Mistris
,
and
lead
her
some
stately
Caranta
:
likewise
requesting
that
none
would
be
offended
what
Lady
soeuer
hee
did
affect
to
grace
with
that
Courtly
pastime
:
at
which
request
all
of
them
were
silent
,
and
silence
is
commonly
a
signe
of
consentment
:
therefore
hee
imboldned
himselfe
the
more
,
to
make
his
desires
knowne
to
the
beholders
:
then
with
excéeding
curtesie
and
great
humilitie
,
he
kissed
the
beauteous
hand
of
Sabra
,
who
with
a
blushing
countenance
and
bashfull
looke
accepted
his
curtesie
,
and
like
a
kinde
Lady
disdained
not
to
daunce
with
him
:
So
when
the
Musitians
stra●ed
forth
their
inspiring
mellodie
,
the
lustfull
Earle
lead
her
the
first
course
about
the
Hall
,
in
as
great
Maiestie
as
Ma●ors
did
the
Quéene
of
Paphos
to
gayne
her
loue
,
and
shee
followed
with
as
much
grace
,
as
if
the
Quéene
of
pleasure
had
beene
present
to
behold
their
Courtly
delights
:
and
so
when
the
first
course
was
ended
,
he
found
a
fit
opportunitie
to
vnfold
hys
secret
loue
,
and
reueale
vnto
the
Lady
his
exstreame
passion
of
minde
,
which
were
in
these
spéeches
expressed
.
Most
Diuine
and
Piereles
Paragon
(
said
he
)
thou
onlie
wonder
of
the
world
,
for
beautie
and
excellent
ornaments
of
nature
:
know
that
thy
two
twinckling
eyes
that
shine
more
brighter
than
the
lightnes
of
heauen
,
beeing
the
true
Darts
of
loue
,
hath
pearced
to
my
heart
,
and
those
thy
Crimson
cheekes
as
louely
as
Auroraes
countenance
,
when
shée
drawes
the
Curtaines
of
her
purple
bed
to
entertaine
her
wandring
Louer
:
those
cheekes
I
say
hath
wounded
me
with
loue
,
therefore
except
thou
graunt
mee
kinde
comfort
,
I
am
like
to
spend
the
remnant
of
my
life
in
sorrowe
,
care
,
and
discontent
:
I
blush
to
speake
what
I
desire
,
because
I
haue
setled
my
loue
where
it
is
vnlawfull
,
in
a
bosome
where
Kings
may
sleepe
and
surfet
with
delight
:
thy
breast
I
meane
my
most
diuine
Mistres
,
for
there
my
heart
is
kept
a
prisoner
,
beautie
is
the
kéeper
,
and
loue
the
key
,
my
ransome
is
a
constant
minde
:
thou
art
my
Venus
,
I
will
be
thy
Mars
:
thou
art
my
Hellen
,
and
I
wil
be
thy
Paris
:
thou
art
my
Hyren
,
I
will
be
thy
Mahomet
:
thou
art
my
Cressida
,
I
will
be
thy
Troylus
:
thou
art
my
loue
,
and
I
will
be
thy
Parramour
:
Admit
thy
Lord
and
Husband
be
aliue
,
yet
hath
he
most
vnkindely
left
thée
to
spend
thy
young
yeares
in
sollitarie
widdowhood
:
he
is
vconstant
tlike
Aeneas
,
and
thou
more
haples
than
Dido
:
hee
martcheth
vp
&
downe
the
world
in
his
glistring
Armour
,
&
neuer
doth
intend
to
returne
:
he
abandoneth
thy
presence
,
&
lieth
sporting
in
strange
Ladies
laps
:
therefore
deare
Sabra
liue
not
to
consume
thy
youth
in
singlenes
,
for
age
will
ouertake
thée
too
soone
and
conuert
thy
beautie
to
wrinckled
frow●es
.
To
which
wordes
Sabra
woulde
haue
presently
made
answere
,
but
that
the
musicke
called
them
to
daunce
the
●●●and
course
,
which
being
〈◊〉
replied
in
this
manner
.
My
Noble
Lord
(
said
she
)
for
our
bounteous
banquet
&
curteous
entertainment
,
I
giue
the
humble
thankes
of
a
poore
Ladie
:
but
for
your
sute
and
vnlawfull
desire
,
I
d●
detest
as
much
as
the
sight
of
a
Crokadile
,
and
your
flattering
glozes
I
estéeme
as
much
,
as
doth
the
Ocean
of
a
dri●ling
shower
of
raine
:
your
Sirens
songes
shall
neuer
intice
me
to
listen
to
your
fond
requests
:
but
I
will
like
Vlisses
stop
my
eares
,
&
burie
all
your
flattering
inticementes
in
the
lakes
of
forgetfulnes
▪
Thinke
you
that
I
will
staine
his
marriage
bed
with
the
least
spot
of
infamie
,
that
wil
not
proffer
me
one
thought
of
wrong
for
all
the
treasures
of
the
wealthie
seas
:
therefore
the
gorgeous
sunne
shall
loose
his
light
by
day
,
the
siluer
Moone
by
night
,
the
skyes
shall
fall
,
the
earth
shall
sinke
,
and
euerie
thing
shall
chaunge
from
his
kinde
and
nature
,
before
I
false●●e
my
faith
,
or
prooue
disloyall
to
my
beloued
George
:
attempt
no
more
my
Noble
Lord
to
batter
the
fortresse
of
my
good
name
,
with
the
Gunshot
of
your
flatterie
,
nor
séeke
to
staine
my
honour
with
your
lustfull
desires
.
What
if
my
Lord
and
Husband
proue
disloyal
,
and
choose
out
other
loues
in
forraine
Lands
:
yet
will
I
proue
as
constant
to
him
,
as
did
Penelope
to
her
Vlisses
:
and
if
it
bee
hys
pleasure
neuer
to
returne
,
but
spend
hys
dayes
amongst
straunge
Ladies
,
then
wil
I
liue
in
single
solitarines
like
to
the
Turtle
Doue
,
when
shee
hath
lost
her
mate
,
abandoning
all
companie
,
or
as
the
mournefull
Swan
that
swimmes
vppon
Maeanders
siluer
streames
,
where
she
recordes
her
dying
tunes
to
raging
bellowes
:
so
will
I
spend
away
my
lingring
dayes
in
griefe
and
die
.
This
resolution
of
the
vertuous
Ladie
daunted
so
the
Earle
,
that
he
stoode
like
a
sensles
image
gazing
at
the
Sun
,
not
knowing
how
to
replie
,
but
yet
when
they
had
daunced
the
third
course
,
he
began
a
new
to
assault
her
vnspotted
chastetie
in
these
tearmes
.
Why
my
deare
mistresse
,
haue
you
a
heart
more
harde
than
Flint
,
that
the
teares
of
my
true
loue
can
neuer
molefie
?
can
you
behold
him
plead
for
grace
that
hath
beene
s●de
vnto
by
many
worthie
Dames
?
I
am
a
man
that
can
commaund
whole
countries
:
yet
can
I
not
command
thy
stubburne
heart
to
yéeld
.
Diuine
Sabra
if
thou
wilt
graunt
me
loue
,
and
yéelde
to
my
desier
:
I
le
haue
thee
clad
in
sliken
Robes
and
damaske
U●stures
,
imbost
with
Indian
Pearles
and
rich
refined
gold
,
perfumed
with
Camphier
Bisse
,
and
Syrrian
swéet
perfumes
:
by
day
a
hundred
Uirgins
like
to
Thetis
tripping
on
the
siluer
sands
,
shall
euermore
attend
thy
person
:
by
night
a
hundred
Euenukes
with
their
strained
Instruments
shall
bring
thy
sences
in
a
golden
slumber
:
If
this
suffizeth
not
thy
swéet
content
,
I
will
prepare
a
sumptuous
Charriot
made
of
gold
,
wherein
thou
shalt
be
drawne
by
Sable
spotted
Stéedes
along
the
fieldes
and
gallant
pastures
adioyning
to
our
Cittie
walles
,
wheras
the
Euening
ayre
shall
breath
a
coolenes
▪
far
more
swéeter
than
Balme
vpon
thy
cheekes
,
and
make
thy
beautie
glister
like
the
purple
Pallace
of
Hiperion
,
when
he
leaues
Aurora
blushing
in
her
bed
,
whereby
the
heauens
and
all
the
powers
therein
shall
stand
and
woonder
at
thy
beautie
▪
and
quite
forget
theyr
vsuall
courses
:
All
this
my
deare
,
diuine
and
daintie
Mistresse
,
is
at
thy
commaund
,
and
more
,
so
that
I
may
enioy
thy
loue
and
fauour
:
which
if
I
haue
not
,
I
will
discontentedly
end
my
life
in
woodes
and
desert
places
,
Tygers
and
vntamed
beasts
shall
be
my
chiefe
companions
.
These
vaine
promises
and
flattering
inti●●●ents
caused
Sabra
to
blush
with
bashfulnes
,
and
to
giue
him
this
sharpe
answere
.
Thinke
you
my
Lorde
with
golden
〈◊〉
,
to
obtaine
that
precious
Gem
,
the
which
I
will
not
loose
for
Europes
treasurie
:
henceeforth
be
silent
in
that
enterpr●●e
▪
and
neuer
after
this
attempt
to
practise
〈◊〉
dishonour
which
if
you
doe
,
I
vowe
by
heauen
to
make
it
knowne
to
euery
one
within
the
Cittie
,
and
fill
all
places
with
rumors
of
thy
wilfull
lust
:
A
Troupe
of
modest
maidens
I
will
procure
to
haunt
thée
vp
and
downe
the
stréetes
,
and
woonder
at
thee
like
an
Owle
,
that
neuer
comes
abroade
but
in
the
darkest
nights
:
this
I
am
resolued
to
doe
and
so
farewell
.
Thus
departed
Sabra
with
a
frowning
countenance
,
whereby
the
rest
of
the
Ladies
suspected
that
the
Earle
had
attempted
her
dishonour
by
secret
conference
,
but
they
all
assuredly
knew
that
she
was
as
farre
from
yéelding
to
hys
desires
as
is
the
aged
man
to
become
young
againe
,
or
the
azurde
firmament
to
be
a
place
for
siluaine
beastes
to
inhabit
:
In
such
like
imaginations
they
spent
awaie
the
day
,
till
the
darke
night
caused
them
to
breake
off
companie
.
The
Earle
smothering
his
griefe
vnder
a
smiling
countenance
,
till
the
Ladies
were
euerie
one
departed
,
whome
hee
curteously
caused
his
seruants
to
conduct
homewards
with
Torch
lightes
,
because
it
began
to
be
verie
darke
:
After
their
departure
he
accursed
his
owne
Fortune
,
and
like
a
Lyon
wanting
foode
,
raged
vp
and
downe
his
Chamber
,
filling
euerie
corner
with
bitter
exclamations
,
rending
hys
garments
from
his
backe
,
tearing
his
haire
,
beating
hys
breast
,
and
vsing
all
the
violence
he
could
deuise
against
himselfe
.
In
this
manner
spent
hee
away
the
night
,
suffering
no
sléepe
to
close
the
windowes
of
his
body
:
such
a
melancholy
and
extreame
passion
discontented
his
minde
,
that
he●
purpose●
to
giue
an
end
to
hys
sorrowes
by
some
vntimelie
death
:
So
when
the
morning
appeared
hee
made
hys
repaire
to
an
Orchard●
,
where
Sabra
commonlie
once
a
daie
walked
to
take
the
Ayre
.
The
place
was
verie
melancholy
,
and
farre
from
the
noyse
of
people
:
where
after
hee
had
spent
some
certaine
time
in
exclaiming
against
the
vnkindnes
of
Sabra
,
he
pulled
his
Poyniard
from
his
backe
,
&
prepared
hys
breast
to
entertaine
the
stroke
of
death
:
but
before
the
pretended
Tragedie
,
with
his
dagger
hee
ingrau●d
these
verses
following
vpon
the
barke
of
a
walnut
trée
.
O
hart
more
hard
than
bloody
Tyger
fell
,
O
eares
more
deafe
,
than
senceles
troubled
seas
:
O
cruell
foe
,
thy
rigor
doth
excell
,
For
thee
I
dye
,
thy
anger
to
appease
:
But
time
will
come
when
thou
shalt
finde
me
slaine
,
That
thy
repentance
will
increase
thy
payne
.
I
here
ingraue
my
will
and
testament
,
That
my
sad
griefe
thou
mayst
behold
and
see
:
How
that
my
wofull
heart
is
torne
and
rent
,
And
gorg'd
with
blooddy
blade
for
loue
of
thee
:
Whome
thou
disdayndst
as
now
the
end
doth
try
,
That
thus
distrest
dost
suffer
me
to
dye
.
Oh
Gods
of
loue
if
so
their
anie
be
,
And
you
of
loue
that
feeles
the
deadly
payne
:
Or
Sabra
thou
that
thus
afflictest
me
,
Heare
these
my
wordes
,
which
from
my
hart
I
straine
:
Ere
that
my
corpes
be
quite
bereaud
of
breath
,
Let
me
declare
the
cause
of
this
my
death
.
You
mountaine
Nimphes
which
in
the
desarts
raigne
,
Cease
off
your
chase
from
sauage
beasts
a
while
:
Prepare
to
see
a
hart
opprest
with
paine
,
Addresse
your
eares
to
heare
my
dolefull
stile
▪
No
strength
nor
Arte
,
can
worke
me
any
weale
,
Sith
she
vnkinde
and
Tyrantlike
doth
deale
.
You
Fayrie
Nimphes
of
louers
much
adorde
,
And
gracious
Damsels
which
in
Eueninges
faire
:
Your
Closets
leaue
,
with
heauenlie
beautie
storde
▪
And
on
your
shoulders
spread
your
golden
haire
:
Record
with
me
,
that
Sabra
is
vnkinde
,
Within
whose
breast
remaines
a
bloody
minde
.
Yee
sauage
Beares
in
Caues
and
Dens
that
lie
,
Remaine
in
peace
if
you
my
sorrowes
heare
:
And
be
not
mooued
at
my
miserie
,
Though
too
extreame
my
passions
doo
appeare
:
England
farewell
and
Couentrie
adue
,
But
Sabra
,
heauen
aboue
still
prosper
you
.
These
verses
béeing
no
sooner
finished
;
and
ingrauen
about
the
Barke
of
the
Walnut
trée
,
but
with
a
grisly
looke
and
wrathfull
countenance
he
lift
vp
hys
hand
,
intending
to
strike
the
Poyniard
vp
to
the
hil●s
in
his
breast
:
but
at
that
same
instant
hee
beheld
Sabra
entring
the
Orchard
to
take
her
wonted
walkes
of
pleasure
,
whose
sight
hindred
his
purpose
,
and
caused
other
bloody
cogitations
to
enter
into
his
minde
.
The
Furies
did
incense
him
to
a
wicked
déede
,
the
which
my
trembling
tongue
faints
to
report
:
for
after
shé●
had
walked
to
the
furthest
side
of
the
melancholie
Orchard
,
he
rigerously
ran
vnto
her
with
hys
dagger
drawne
,
and
catching
her
about
the
slender
waste
,
thus
spitefulli●
threatned
her
.
Now
stubburne
Dame
(
quoth
hee
)
will
I
obtaine
my
long
desired
purpose
,
and
reuenge
by
violence
thy
former
proude
denials
:
First
will
I
wrappe
this
dagger
in
thy
lo●kes
of
haire
,
and
nayle
it
fast
into
the
ground
:
then
wil
I
rauish
thée
by
force
and
violence
,
and
triumph
in
the
conquest
of
thy
chastetie
:
which
beeing
done
,
I
le
cut
thy
tong
out
of
thy
mouth
,
because
thou
shalt
not
reueale
nor
discrie
thy
bloody
rauisher
:
Likewise
with
this
Poyniard
will
I
chop
off
both
thy
hands
:
whereby
thou
shalt
neither
write
with
pen
thy
staine
of
honour
,
nor
in
Sampler
sowe
this
proffered
disgrace
:
Therefore
except
thou
willingly
yéelde
to
quench
my
desired
loue
with
the
pleasures
of
thy
marriage
bed
,
I
will
by
force
and
violence
inflict
these
vowed
punishments
vppon
thy
dellicate
body
:
be
not
too
resolute
in
thy
denials
,
for
if
thou
béest
,
the
gorgious
Sunne
shall
not
glyde
the
compasse
of
an
houre
,
before
I
obtaine
my
longe
desired
purpose
,
and
thereupon
hee
st●pped
to
the
Orchard●
doore
,
and
with
all
expedition
locked
it
,
and
put
the
key
into
hys
pocket
:
then
returned
hee
like
the
hunger
starued
Wolfe
to
cea●e
vppon
the
sillie
Lambe
,
or
like
the
chased
Bore
when
he
is
wounded
with
the
hunters
Launce
,
came
running
to
the
helples
Ladie
,
intending
her
present
Rape
,
&
foule
dishonour
:
But
shée
thinking
all
hope
of
ayde
or
succour
to
bee
voyde
,
fell
into
a
dead
sound
,
béeing
not
able
to
mooue
for
the
space
of
a
quarter
of
an
hower
:
But
yet
at
last
hauing
recouered
her
dead
senses
to
their
former
vitall
moouing
,
she
began
in
this
pittifull
maner
to
defende
her
assayled
chastetie
,
from
the
wicked
Earle
that
stoode
ouer
her
with
hys
bloodie
dagger
,
threatning
most
cruelly
her
small
confusion
.
My
Lord
of
Couentrie
(
said
shée
with
wéeping
teares
,
&
knéeling
vppon
the
bare
ground
)
is
vertue
banished
your
breast
?
haue
you
a
minde
more
tyrranous
than
the
Tygers
of
Hercania
,
that
nothing
may
suffi●e
to
satisfie
your
lustfull
desires
,
but
the
staine
of
my
honour
,
and
the
conquest
of
my
chastetie
?
if
it
bée
my
beautie
that
hath
intised
you
,
I
am
content
to
haue
it
conuerted
to
a
loathsome
Leprosie
,
whereby
to
make
mee
odious
in
your
eyes
:
If
it
bée
my
rich
and
costly
garments
that
makes
me
beautifull
,
and
so
intangles
you
,
henceforth
I
will
attire
my
body
in
poore
&
simple
aray
,
and
for
euermore
dwell
in
countrie
Caues
and
Cottages
,
so
that
I
may
preserue
my
chastetie
vnspotted
:
If
none
of
these
may
suffice
to
abate
your
tyrranous
intent
,
but
that
your
lust
will
make
me
times
wonder
,
and
a
pointing
stocke
and
scorne
of
vertuous
Ladies
:
then
will
the
heauens
reuenge
my
wronges
,
to
whome
I
will
vncessantlie
make
my
petitions
:
the
birdes
in
the
aire
after
their
kinde
will
euermore
〈◊〉
against
your
wickednes
:
the
siluane
beastes
that
abides
in
woodes
and
deserts
,
will
breath
forth
clamors
of
your
wickednes
:
the
créeping
wormes
that
liue
within
the
creuc●es
of
the
earth
,
will
giue
dumbe
signes
〈◊〉
tokens
of
your
wickednes
,
the
running
Riuers
they
〈◊〉
at
your
wickednes
,
the
wo●ds
and
trées
,
both
hearbes
and
flowers
,
with
euerie
sensles
thing
will
soun●some
motions
of
your
wickednesse
:
Returne
,
return●
,
my
Noble
Lord
vnto
your
former
vertues
:
bannish
such
●●nde
de●●res
out
of
your
minde
:
staine
no●
the
honor
of
your
house
with
such
blacke
scandales
and
disgrace
,
beare
this
in
minde
before
you
doe
attempt
so
vile
a
sinne
.
What
became
of
Hellens
rauishment
,
but
the
destruction
of
renowned
Troy
?
What
of
Romaine
Lucresiaes
Rape
,
but
the
banishment
of
Tarquin
?
and
what
of
Prognies
soule
deflowrement
by
her
sisters
husband
,
the
lustfull
King
of
Thrace
,
but
the
bloody
banquet
of
his
young
Sonne
I●is
,
whose
tender
body
they
serued
to
his
table
baked
in
a
Pye
?
At
which
spéeches
the
irefull
Earle
wrapped
hys
handes
within
her
lockes
of
haire
,
which
was
couered
with
a
costly
Caule
of
gold
,
and
in
this
manner
presently
replied
vnto
her
.
What
tellest
thou
me
of
Poets
tales
(
said
he
)
of
Prognies
Rape
,
and
Terius
bloody
banquet
:
thy
rauishment
shall
be
an
Induction
to
thy
Tragedie
,
which
if
th●●
yéelde
not
willingly
,
I
will
obtaine
by
force
and
violence
:
therefore
prepare
thy selfe
eyther
to
entertaine
the
sentence
pronounced
,
or
yeelde
thy
body
to
my
pleasure
.
This
vnrecanting
and
vowed
resolution
of
the
Earle
,
added
griefe
vpon
griefe
,
&
heaped
mountaines
of
sorrow
vpon
her
soule
:
twice
did
the
haples
Ladie
cast
her
eyes
to
heauen
,
in
hope
the
Gods
would
pittie
hir
distresse
,
&
twice
vnto
the
earth
,
wishing
the
ground
might
open
and
deuoure
her
,
&
so
deliuer
her
from
the
furie
of
the
wicked
Homecide
:
but
at
last
when
shée
saw
that
neyther
teares
,
praiers
,
nor
wishes
could
preuaile
,
shee
gaue
an
outward
signe
of
consentment
vppon
some
conditions
,
vnder
colour
to
deuise
a
present
me●nes
to
preserue
her
chastetie
,
and
deliuer
hir selfe
from
his
lustfull
assailements
.
There
is
no
condition
saide
the
Earle
,
but
I
will
yéeld
vnto
,
so
thou
wilt
graunt
my
desire
,
and
make
me
chiefe
commaunder
of
thy
loue
.
First
my
Lord
(
quoth
she
)
shall
you
suffer
me
to
fit
some
certaine
houres
vpon
this
bed
of
violets
,
and
bewaile
the
losse
of
my
good
name
,
which
shortly
shall
bee
yéelded
vp
to
your
pleasure
:
then
shall
you
lie
and
dallie
in
my
lap
thereby
to
make
my
affections
,
yet
fréezing
cold
,
to
flame
with
burning
brandes
of
loue
:
that
béeing
done
you
shall
receaue
your
wished
desires
.
These
wordes
caused
the
Earle
to
conuert
his
furious
wrath
to
smiling
toy
,
and
so
casting
downe
his
dagger
,
he
gaue
her
a
curteous
kisse
,
which
shee
in
his
conceite
graciously
accepted
:
whereby
hys
mind
was
brought
into
such
a
vaine
opinion
,
that
he
thought
no
Heauen
but
in
her
presence
:
no
comfort
but
in
her
sight
:
and
no
pleasure
but
in
her
loue
:
then
caused
he
Sabra
to
sit
downe
vpon
a
bed
of
violets
,
beset
about
with
diuers
sorts
of
flowers
,
whose
lay
hée
made
his
pillow
,
whereon
he
laide
hys
head
,
intending
as
he
thought
to
increase
desire
:
But
as
women
in
extreamitie
haue
the
quickest
wittes
:
So
Sabra
busied
her selfe
by
all
meanes
possible
,
eyther
now
or
neuer
to
remooue
the
cause
of
her
déepe
distresse
by
practising
hys
death
,
and
so
quit
her selfe
from
her
importunate
sutor
:
one
while
she
told
him
pleasant
tales
of
loue
,
in
hope
to
bring
his
sences
to
a
slumber
,
the
better
to
accomplish
her
desires
:
other
whiles
shee
played
and
sported
with
hys
haire
that
hung
dangling
below
his
shoulders
like
to
threds
of
silke
:
But
at
last
when
neyther
discoursing
tales
,
nor
her
●allying
pastime
with
his
haire
could
bring
him
a
sléepe
,
she
strained
forth
the
Organs
of
her
voice
,
and
ouer
his
heade
song
this
wofull
Dittie
.
Thou
God
of
sleepe
and
golden
dreames
appeare
,
That
bringst
all
things
to
peace
and
quiet
rest
:
Close
vp
the
glasses
of
his
eies
so
cleare
,
Thereby
to
make
my
fortune
euer
blest
:
His
eies
,
his
hart
,
his
senses
and
his
minde
.
In
peacefull
sleep
let
them
some
comfort
finde
.
Sing
sweet
you
prettie
birdes
in
top
of
Skyes
,
With
warbling
t●nes
and
many
a
pleasant
note
:
Till
your
sweet
Musicke
close
his
watchfull
eies
,
That
on
my
loue
with
vaine
desires
doth
dote
:
Sleepe
on
my
deare
,
sleepe
on
my
loues
delight
,
And
l●t
this
sleepe
be
thy
eternall
night
.
You
gentle
Bees
the
Muses
louelie
birdes
,
Come
aide
my
dolefull
tunes
with
siluer
sound
:
Let
your
inspiring
melodie
recorde
,
Such
heauenlie
musicke
that
may
q●ite
confounde
,
Both
wit
and
sence
,
and
tier
his
eies
with
sleepe
,
Tha●
on
my
lap
in
sweet
content
I
keepe
.
You
siluer
streames
which
murmuring
musicke
makes
,
A●d
filles
each
dale
with
pleasant
Harmonie
:
Where
at
the
floting
fish
much
pleasure
takes
,
To
heare
their
sweet
recording
melodie
:
Assist
my
tunes
his
slumbring
eyes
to
close
,
That
on
my
lap
now
takes
a
sweet
repose
.
Let
whispering
windes
in
euerie
sensles
tree
,
A
solemne
,
sad
,
and
dolefull
Musicke
sing
:
From
hilles
and
dales
,
and
from
each
mountaine
●ie
,
Let
some
inspiring
sound
or
eccho
ring
:
That
he
may
neuer
more
awake
againe
,
Which
sought
my
marriage
bed
with
lust
to
staine
.
This
delightfull
song
rocked
hys
sences
to
such
a
careles
and
heauie
slumber
,
that
●e
slept
as
soundly
vpon
her
lappe
,
as
if
he
had
béene
couched
in
the
softest
bed
of
downe
,
whereby
she
found
a
fit
opportunitie
to
〈◊〉
her
vndefiled
body
from
his
lustfull
desires
:
So
taking
the
Poyniard
in
her
hand
,
which
he
had
cast
a
little
aside
,
and
gazing
thereon
with
an
irefull
looke
,
she
made
this
sad
complaint
.
Graunt
you
immortall
powers
of
heauen
(
said
she
)
that
of
these
two
extreames
I
choose
the
best
,
either
must
I
yeeld
my
body
to
bée
dishonored
by
his
vnchast
desires
,
or
staine
my
handes
with
the
trickling
streames
of
his
heart
blood
▪
If
I
yéeld
vnto
the
first
,
I
shall
be
then
accounted
for
a
viscious
Dame
in
euerie
place
:
but
if
I
commit
the
last
I
shall
be
guiltie
of
a
wilfull
murder
,
and
for
the
fame
the
law
will
adiudge
me
to
a
shamefull
death
.
What
shall
I
feare
to
die
and
loose
my
vertue
and
renowne
?
No
,
my
heart
shall
bée
as
tyrranous
as
Danaus
Daughters
,
that
slewe
their
fiftie
husbands
in
a
night
,
or
as
Medeas
crueltie
,
which
scattered
her
brothers
bloodie
ioynts
vpon
the
sea
shore
,
therby
to
hinder
the
swift
pursute
of
her
father
,
when
Iason
got
the
golden
Fléece
from
Calcos
Ile
:
Therefore
stand
still
you
glistring
Lampes
of
heauen
,
stay
wandring
time
and
let
him
sléepe
eternally
.
Where
art
thou
sad
Melpomene
,
that
speakst
of
nothing
but
of
murthers
and
Tragedies
?
Where
be
those
Dames
that
euermore
delights
in
blood
?
Come
,
come
,
assist
me
with
your
cruelties
,
let
me
excéede
the
hate
of
Progne
,
for
her
rauishment
:
rage
hart
,
and
take
delight
in
blood
,
banish
all
thoughts
of
pitty
from
thy
breast
,
be
thou
as
mercilesse
as
King
Priams
Quéene
,
that
in
reuenge
of
fiue
and
twenty
murthred
sonnes
,
with
her
owne
hands
staynd
the
pauements
of
Agamemnons
Court
with
purple
gore
:
these
words
being
no
sooner
ended
,
but
with
wrathfull
and
pale
countenance
,
she
sheathed
the
Poyniard
vp
to
the
hilts
in
the
closure
of
his
breast
,
whereat
he
started
,
and
woulde
haue
got
vpon
his
féete
,
but
the
streame
of
blood
so
violently
gushed
from
his
wound
,
that
hee
declined
immediatly
to
the
earth
,
and
his
soule
was
forced
to
giue
the
world
a
dolefull
adue
.
But
when
Sabra
behold
the
bedde
of
violets
stainde
with
blood
,
and
euery
flower
conuerted
to
a
crimson
colour
,
shée
sighed
grieuously
,
but
when
she
saw
her
garments
all
to
be
sprinckled
with
her
enemies
blood
,
and
he
lay
wallowing
at
her
féete
in
purple
go●e
she
ran
spéedily
vnto
a
flowing
fountaine
that
stoode
on
the
further
side
of
the
Orchard
,
and
began
to
wash
the
blood
out
of
her
clothes
,
but
the
more
shee
washed
,
the
more
it
increased
,
a
signe
that
heauen
will
neuer
suffer
wilfull
murder
to
be
hid
,
for
what
cause
soeuer
it
is
done
.
This
straunge
spectakle
or
rather
wonderfull
accident
,
so
amazed
the
sorrowfull
Lady
,
that
shee
began
a
newe
to
complaine
.
O
that
this
wicked
murther
neuer
had
bin
done
(
said
shée
)
or
that
my
hand
had
béene
stroken
lame
,
by
some
vnluckie
Plannet
,
when
first
it
did
attempt
the
déede
!
whether
shall
I
flie
to
shrowde
me
from
the
company
of
vertuous
women
,
which
will
for
euermore
shun
me
as
a
detested
murtherer
?
If
I
should
goe
into
some
forraine
Countrie
,
there
heauen
will
cast
downe
vengeance
for
my
guilt
:
If
I
should
hide
my selfe
in
woods
and
solitarie
wildernesses
,
yet
would
the
winde
discouer
me
,
and
blow
this
bloody
crime
to
euery
corner
of
the
world
:
or
if
I
should
goe
liue
in
Caues
or
darkesome
Dennes
,
within
the
déepe
foundation
of
the
earth
,
yet
will
his
Ghost
pursue
me
there
,
and
haunt
mee
day
and
night
:
so
that
in
no
place
a
murtherer
can
liue
in
rest
,
such
discontented
thoughts
shall
still
oppresse
his
mind
.
After
shée
had
breathed
forth
this
comfortles
lamentation
to
the
aire
,
she
tore
her
blood
stayned
Garment
from
her
backe
and
cast
it
into
the
fountaine
,
where
it
turned
the
water
into
the
colour
of
blood
:
so
heynous
is
murther
in
the
sight
of
heauen
.
Thus
béeing
disrobed
into
her
Petticote
,
she
returned
to
the
slaughtered
Earle
,
whome
shee
founde
couered
with
mosse
,
which
added
more
griefe
vnto
her
sorrowfull
soule
,
for
she
greatlie
feared
her
murther
was
discried
,
but
it
fell
not
out
as
she
mustrusted
:
for
it
is
the
nature
and
kind
of
a
Robbin
Red-brest
and
other
birdes
,
alwaies
to
couer
the
bodie
of
any
dead
man
,
and
them
it
was
that
br●d
this
feare
in
the
Ladies
heart
:
by
this
time
the
day
began
to
shut
vp
his
bright
windowes
,
and
sable
night
entred
to
take
possession
of
the
earth
:
yet
durst
not
the
wofull
and
distressed
Sabra
make
her
repaire
homewards
,
lest
she
should
bee
discried
without
her
vpper
garment
.
During
which
time
there
was
a
generall
search
made
for
the
Earle
by
his
seruauntes
,
for
they
greatly
suspected
some
daunger
had
befallen
him
,
considering
that
they
heard
him
the
night
before
so
wofullie
complaine
in
his
Chamber
:
At
last
with
Torch
light
they
came
to
the
Orchard
gate
,
which
they
presently
burst
open
:
wherein
no
sooner
entring
,
but
they
found
their
murthered
Master
,
lying
by
a
bed
of
violets
couered
with
mosse
,
likewise
searching
to
find
out
the
murtherer
:
At
last
they
espied
Sabra
in
her
naked
Petticote
,
her
handes
&
face
besprinckled
with
blood
,
&
her
countenance
as
pale
as
ashes
:
by
which
signes
they
suspected
her
to
be
the
bloody
bereauer
of
their
Lord
&
Masters
life
:
therefore
because
she
descended
from
a
noble
linnage
,
they
brought
her
the
same
night
before
the
King
,
which
did
then
keepe
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
them
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
Champion
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
Trumpet
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
like
vnto
an
Elephants
,
hys
nostrelles
were
verie
large
and
bigge
,
his
heade
little
,
his
breast
some
what
broad
,
well
pitcht
,
and
so
●ard
that
no
sword
were
it
neuer
so
sharpe
,
was
able
to
enter
in
thereat
.
The
Champion
was
called
the
Barron
〈◊〉
Chester
,
a
hold
▪
and
hardier
Knight
they
thought
liued
not
then
vpon
the
face
of
the
whole
earth
:
he
so
aduanced
himselfe
vp
&
downe
as
though
hee
had
béene
able
to
Encounter
with
a
hundred
Knights
:
then
the
King
caused
the
Harrold
to
summon
in
the
Defendant
,
if
there
were
any
to
defend
her
cause
both
Drums
and
Trumpets
sounded
thrée
seuerall
times
vp
&
downe
the
fieldes
,
betwixt
euerie
rest
was
full
a
quarter
of
an
houre
,
but
yet
no
defendant
did
appeare
:
therefore
the
King
commaunded
the
Executioner
to
set
the
stake
on
fire
presently
.
At
which
words
Sabra
began
to
grow
as
pale
as
ashes
and
hir
Ioyntes
to
tremble
like
to
Aspen-leaues
,
hir
toung
that
before
continewed
silent
began
to
recorde
a
swanlike
dying
tale
,
&
in
this
manner
vttered
she
the
passion
of
hir
heart
.
Be
witnes
heauen
,
and
all
you
bright
celestiall
Angells
:
bee
witnes
sun
and
moone
the
true
beholders
of
my
●act
:
be
witnes
thou
cleare
firmament
and
all
the
world
be
witnes
of
my
innocence
:
the
blood
I
shed
was
for
the
sauegard
of
my
honor
and
vnspotted
Chastety
:
Great
God
of
heauen
,
if
the
praiers
of
my
vnstained
heart
may
assaile
thy
mighty
Maiestie
,
or
my
true
innocence
preuaile
with
thy
immortall
power
.
Commaund
that
eyther
my
Lorde
may
come
to
be
my
Champion
,
or
sad
beholder
of
my
death
:
But
if
my
hands
were
stained
with
blood
about
some
wicked
enterprise
:
then
heauen
shew
present
vengeance
vppon
me
by
fire
,
or
els
let
the
earth
open
&
deuoure
my
bodie
vp
aliue
.
At
which
instance
she
heard
the
sound
of
a
shrill
and
lowd
horne
,
the
which
S.
George
winded
:
(
for
as
then
hée
was
néere
)
which
caused
the
Execution
a
while
to
bee
deferred
:
At
last
they
beheld
a
farre
off
a
stately
Banner
wauering
in
the
Ayre
,
the
which
the
Knight
carried
before
saint
George
:
then
they
espied
nere
vnto
the
Banner
a
most
valiant
Armed
Knight
mounted
vpon
a
cole
blacke
Palfray
,
with
a
mightie
great
Launce
set
charged
in
his
Rest
,
by
which
sodaine
approach
they
knewe
him
to
bée
some
Champion
that
would
defende
the
distressed
Ladyes
cause
.
Then
the
King
commanded
the
Drums
and
Trumpets
to
sound
,
whereat
the
people
gaue
a
generall
sh●w●
,
and
the
poore
Lady
halfe
dead
with
feare
,
began
to
reuiue
,
and
her
blushing
cheekes
to
be
as
beautefull
,
as
redde
Roses
dipt
in
milke
,
&
blood
mingled
with
snowe
:
but
when
saint
George
approached
the
sight
of
his
true
and
constant
L●d●
,
whom
he
found
chayned
to
a
stake
,
incompassed
with
many
instruments
of
death
,
his
hart
so
relented
with
griefe
,
that
he
almost
fell
beside
his
horse
:
yet
remembring
wherefore
hée
came
,
he
recalled
his
courage
,
and
intended
to
try
his
fortune
in
the
Combat
,
before
he
would
discouer
himselfe
vnto
his
Lady
:
And
so
when
the
Trumpets
sounded
deaths
Alarum
,
the
two
Knights
set
spurres
to
their
horses
,
&
made
them
run
so
fiercely
,
that
at
the
first
encounter
,
they
shiuered
both
theyr
Launces
to
their
hands
,
then
rushed
they
together
so
rigorously
with
their
bodies
and
Helmets
,
that
they
fell
downe
both
to
the
earth
:
But
saint
George
who
was
the
more
lustier
Knight
,
nimbly
leapt
vppon
his
féete
without
any
hurt
,
but
the
Barron
of
Chester
lay
still
with
his
h●ad
downewards
,
casting
from
his
mouth
abundance
of
blood
,
he
was
so
mightely
bruised
with
the
fall
,
but
when
he
reuiued
from
his
traunce
,
he
tooke
his
shield
,
drawing
out
a
mighty
Fawchion
,
and
with
a
wrathfull
countenance
ran
at
saint
George
:
Now
prowde
Knight
(
quoth
he
)
I
sweare
by
all
the
Saints
in
heauen
,
to
reuenge
the
blood
which
thou
hast
shed
,
and
therewithall
he
stroke
so
violently
vpon
saint
Georges
shield
,
that
it
cleaued
quite
a
sunder
:
then
began
he
to
waxe
angry
,
and
tooke
his
sword
in
great
wrath
,
and
gaue
the
Barron
of
Chester
such
a
stroke
,
that
he
cut
away
arme
and
shoulder
,
and
all
the
flesh
of
his
side
to
the
bare
ribs
,
and
likewise
cut
his
legge
almost
cleaue
a
sunder
,
in
the
thichest
place
of
his
thigh
,
and
yet
for
all
that
the
sword
entred
halfe
a
foote
into
the
earth
,
then
fell
the
Barron
of
Chester
to
the
ground
,
and
breathed
forth
this
lamentable
cry
:
Nowe
frowne
you
fatall
starres
eternally
,
that
did
predominate
at
my
byrth
,
for
he
is
slaine
and
vanquished
that
neuer
st●●pt
to
any
Knight
before
this
day
,
and
thereuppon
the
blood
st●pped
the
passage
of
his
speech
,
and
his
soule
went
flying
to
Elizium
,
whereat
the
whole
company
reioyced
,
and
applauded
saint
George
for
the
most
fortunates
Knight
in
the
world
:
then
the
King
deliuered
Sabra
with
his
owne
hands
to
saint
George
,
who
most
curteously
receiued
her
,
and
like
a
kinde
Knight
cast
a
scarlet
Mantle
ouer
her
body
,
the
which
a
Lady
standing
by
bestowed
vpon
him
,
yet
he
minding
not
to
discouer
himselfe
,
but
set
her
vpon
his
portly
Stéede
,
(
that
presently
grew
prowde
in
carrying
so
rich
a
burthen
)
and
with
his
owne
hands
lead
him
by
the
brydle
raynes
:
so
great
was
the
ioy
throughout
the
City
,
that
the
belles
rung
without
ceasing
,
for
thrée
dayes
together
,
the
Citezens
thorough
euery
place
that
saint
George
should
passe
,
did
hang
forth
at
their
windowes
,
and
on
their
walles
cloth
of
gold
and
silke
,
with
rich
Carpets
,
Cushions
,
and
couerings
of
gréene
veluet
lay
abroad
in
euery
window
:
the
Cleargy
in
Copes
of
gold
and
silke
met
them
with
solemne
Processions
:
The
Ladyes
and
beautefull
Damsels
strowd
euery
stréete
where
as
hee
past
with
Roses
and
most
pleasant
flowers
,
and
Crownd
him
with
a
wreath
of
gréene
bayes
,
in
signe
of
his
triumphant
victory
and
Conquest
.
In
this
manner
went
hee
vnto
the
Kinges
Pallace
,
not
known
by
any
what
he
should
be
,
but
that
he
was
a
Knight
of
a
strange
Country
,
yet
Sabra
many
times
as
they
walked
by
the
way
,
desired
to
see
his
face
,
and
knowe
his
name
,
in
that
he
had
aduentured
so
farre
for
her
sake
,
and
that
for
her
deliuery
had
vanquished
the
brauest
knight
in
England
.
Yet
for
all
her
perswasions
hee
kept
himselfe
vndiscouered
,
till
a
troupe
of
Ladies
in
company
of
Sabra
got
him
into
a
chamber
richly
hung
with
Arras
cloth
,
and
there
vnlaced
his
Beuer
,
whose
countenance
when
she
beheld
,
and
sawe
that
it
was
her
Lord
and
husband
which
had
redeemed
her
from
death
▪
shée
fell
into
a
deade
sounde
for
very
ioy
:
But
saint
George
sprinckled
a
little
colde
water
on
her
face
,
and
reuiued
her
presently
:
After
this
he
gaue
he●
many
a
kinde
and
louing
kis●e
,
calling
her
the
most
truest
,
and
the
most
loyallest
Lady
that
euer
nature
framed
,
that
to
the
very
death
would
not
loose
one
iote
of
her
vnspotted
honour
:
Likewise
she
accounted
him
the
truest
Knight
and
the
most
ll●st
husband
,
that
euer
heauenly
Hymen
kne●●
in
ban●s
of
marriage
with
any
woman
.
But
when
the
King
had
notice
that
it
was
saint
George
,
his
Countries
Champion
,
which
atchieued
that
Noble
Conquest
in
vanquishing
the
Barron
of
Chester
▪
he
was
rauished
with
such
ioy
,
that
he
came
running
small
hast
to
the
Chamber
,
and
most
kindly
imbraced
him
▪
and
after
he
was
vnarmed
,
&
had
washed
his
woundes
in
white
wine
and
new
milke
,
the
King
conducted
him
with
his
Lady
in
his
banquetting
〈◊〉
where
they
feasted
for
that
euening
,
and
after
he
kept
open
Court
for
all
commers
so
long
as
saint
George
continued
there
,
which
was
for
the
space
of
one
month
:
At
the
end
whereof
he
tooke
his
Lady
and
one
Page
with
him
,
and
had
England
〈◊〉
,
and
then
he
trauelled
towards
Persia
,
to
the
other
Christian
Champions
,
whose
dangerous
iourney
and
straunge
aduentures
you
may
reade
in
this
Chapter
following
,
CHAP
XVI
.
How
Saint
George
in
his
iournie
towardes
Persia
,
ariued
in
a
Countrie
inhabited
onely
by
maides
,
where
hee
atchiued
many
strange
and
wonderfull
aduentures
:
Also
of
the
rauishment
of
seauen
Virgins
in
a
wood
,
and
howe
Sabra
preserued
her
Honour
from
a
tirrible
Gyant
.
AFter
saint
George
with
his
vertuous
Ladie
departed
from
England
,
and
had
trauailed
through
many
Countries
,
taking
their
direct
courses
towards
Egipt
,
and
the
Confines
of
Persia
,
where
the
other
si●e
Champions
remayned
with
their
warlike
Legions
:
At
last
they
ariued
in
the
Country
of
the
Amazonians
,
a
land
inhabited
by
none
but
women
:
In
which
Region
saint
George
atchiued
many
braue
and
Princely
aduentures
,
which
are
most
wonderful
to
rehearse
,
as
after
shall
bee
declared
:
For
trauelling
vp
and
downe
the
Countrie
,
they
found
euery
Towne
and
Cittie
desolate
of
people
,
yet
very
sumptuosly
builded
:
the
earth
likewise
vntilled
:
the
pastures
vncherished
,
and
euerie
field
ouergrowne
with
wéeds
:
whereby
he
déemed
that
some
strange
accident
had
befallen
the
country
,
either
by
war
,
or
immortalitie
of
some
grieuous
plague
,
for
they
could
neyther
let
eye
of
man
,
woman
,
nor
childe
,
whereby
they
were
forced
to
féede
on
Berries
▪
Ro●tes
,
and
in
stéede
of
braue
●as●●ces
,
they
were
constrained
to
lie
in
broad
pastures
,
vpon
bankes
of
masse
,
&
instéede
of
Curtens
of
silke
,
they
had
the
blacke
and
scowling
〈◊〉
to
couer
them
.
In
this
extreamety
they
trauelled
vp
and
downe
for
thirty
dayes
,
but
at
last
it
was
theyr
happy
fortunes
to
ariue
before
a
rich
Pauillion
,
scituate
and
standing
in
the
open
fields
,
which
seemed
to
be
the
most
glorious
sight
that
euer
they
beheld
,
for
it
was
wrought
of
the
richest
worke
in
the
world
,
all
of
gréene
and
crimson
satten
,
bordred
with
golde
and
azure
,
the
posts
that
〈◊〉
was
of
Iuory
,
the
cordes
of
greene
silke
,
and
on
the
toppe
thereof
there
stoode
an
Eagle
of
gold
,
and
at
the
two
corners
,
two
great
siluer
Griffons
shining
against
the
sunne
,
which
seemed
in
richnes
to
exceede
the
monument
of
Mausalus
being
one
of
the
worlds
twelue
wonders
.
They
had
not
there
remayned
long
,
admiring
at
the
beauty
of
the
workemanship
,
but
at
the
entry
of
the
Pauillion
,
there
appeared
a
mayden
Quéene
Crowned
with
an
imperiall
Diademe
,
who
was
the
most
fayrest
creature
that
euer
hee
sawe
:
on
her
attended
twenty
Amazonian
Dames
,
baring
in
theyr
handes
siluer
bowes
of
the
Turkish
fashion
,
and
at
theyr
backes
hung
quiuers
full
of
golden
Arrowes
:
vppon
theyr
heades
they
wore
siluer
Coronets
,
beset
with
Pearles
and
precious
stones
:
theyr
attire
comelie
and
gallant
:
theyr
faces
faire
and
gentle
to
behold
,
theyr
foreheads
playne
and
white
,
the
tramels
of
theyr
hayrelike
burnisht
golde
,
theyr
browes
small
and
proper
,
somewhat
drawing
to
a
browne
colour
:
theyr
visages
plaine
,
neither
too
long
,
nor
too
round
,
but
coloured
like
Roses
and
Lillies
mixt
together
,
theyr
noses
long
and
strait
,
their
ruddy
mouths
somewhat
smiling
,
their
eyes
louely
,
and
all
the
rest
of
theyr
parts
and
liniaments
by
nature
framed
most
excellent
,
who
had
made
them
in
beauty
without
compare
:
The
Quéene
her selfe
was
cloathed
in
a
gowne
of
gréene
,
straight
gyrt
vnto
her
body
with
a
lace
of
gold
,
so
that
somewhat
her
rounde
and
Lilly
white
breast
might
be
séene
,
which
became
her
wonderfull
well
,
beside
all
this
,
shee
had
on
a
crimson
Kertle
,
lined
with
violet
veluet
,
and
her
wide
sléeues
were
likewise
of
gréene
silk
unbrothred
with
flowers
of
golde
,
and
with
rich
Pearles
:
when
saint
George
had
sufficiently
beheld
the
beauty
of
this
mayden
Quéene
,
hee
was
almost
intrapped
in
her
loue
,
but
that
the
deare
affection
he
bare
to
his
owne
Lady
preuented
him
,
whome
hee
woulde
not
wrong
for
all
the
treasures
betwixt
the
highest
heauens
,
and
the
lowest
earth
:
At
last
he
alighted
from
his
horse
,
and
humbled
himselfe
vnto
her
Excellence
and
thus
curteously
began
to
question
with
her
after
this
manner
.
Most
diuine
and
fayer
of
all
fayers
,
Quéene
of
swéete
beauty
(
sayd
he
)
let
a
trauelling
Knight
obtaine
this
fauor
at
your
hands
,
that
both
himselfe
and
his
Lady
whome
you
behold
here
wearied
with
trauell
,
may
take
our
rest
within
your
Pauillion
for
this
night
:
For
wee
haue
wandred
vp
and
downe
this
Country
many
a
day
,
neither
séeing
man
to
giue
vs
lodging
,
nor
finding
foode
to
cherrish
vs
,
which
made
vs
woonder
that
so
braue
a
Country
,
and
so
beautefied
with
natures
ornamenes
as
this
is
,
should
be
left
desolate
of
people
,
the
cause
whereof
is
straunge
I
knowe
and
full
of
woonder
,
This
question
beeing
curteously
demaunded
by
saint
George
,
caused
the
Amazonian
Quéene
as
kindly
to
reply
:
Syr
Knight
quoth
she
,
(
for
so
you
séeme
both
by
your
behauiour
,
and
galiant
stature
)
what
fauour
my
Pauillion
may
afford
be
assured
of
:
But
the
remembrance
of
my
Countries
desolation
which
you
speake
of
,
bréedes
a
sea
of
sorrowe
in
my
soule
,
and
makes
me
sigh
when
I
remember
it
,
but
because
you
are
a
Knight
of
a
strange
Land
,
I
will
report
it
though
vnto
my
griefe
:
about
some
twelue
yeares
since
,
it
was
a
Nigromancers
chaunce
to
ariue
within
this
Country
,
his
name
is
Osmond
,
the
cunningst
Artist
this
day
liuing
vpon
the
earth
,
for
he
can
at
his
call
raise
all
the
spirits
out
of
hell
:
and
with
his
charmes
make
heauen
to
raine
continuall
showers
of
bloode
,
my
beauty
at
that
instance
tempted
him
to
loue
,
and
drowned
his
senses
so
in
desire
,
that
hee
assayed
by
all
perswasions
that
either
wit
or
Art
could
deuise
,
to
winne
me
to
his
will
:
but
I
hauing
vowde
my selfe
to
Dianaes
chasteti●
,
to
liue
in
singlenes
among
the
Amazonian
maides
,
〈…〉
loue
,
disp●sed
his
person
,
and
accounted
his
〈…〉
as
the
hissing
of
v●n●mous
snakes
▪
fo●
which
hee
br●ught
the
destruction
of
this
my
Realme
and
Kingdome
:
for
by
hys
Magicke
〈◊〉
and
damned
Charmes
,
●ee
r●ysed
from
the
earth
a
mightie
Tower
,
the
morter
whereof
hee
mingled
with
virgins
blood
:
wherein
are
such
Inchantmentes
wrought
,
that
the
light
of
the
Sunne
,
and
the
brightnes
of
the
Skye
is
quenched
,
and
the
earth
blasted
with
a
tyrrible
vapour
,
and
blacke
mist
,
that
ascendeth
from
the
Tower
,
whereby
a
generall
darkenes
ouerspreades
our
Land
,
the
compasse
of
foure
and
twentie
Leagues
:
so
that
this
countrie
is
cleane
wasted
and
destroyed
,
and
my
people
fled
out
thereof
.
This
Tower
is
haunted
day
and
night
with
gastlie
f●ends
:
and
at
hys
departure
into
Persia
,
where
hee
now
by
Inchauntment
aides
the
Soldan
in
hys
Warres
against
the
Christians
,
hee
left
the
guarding
of
the
same
to
a
mightie
and
tyrrible
Gyant
:
In
shape
the
vgliest
monster
that
euer
eye
beheld
,
or
●are
heard
tell
:
For
hee
is
thirtie
f●●te
in
length
:
his
head
three
times
larger
than
the
head
of
an
Oxe
:
his
eyes
bigger
than
two
pewter
dishes
,
and
hys
téeth
standing
out
of
hys
mouth
more
than
a
foote
:
wherewith
he
will
breake
both
Iron
and
Stéele
:
his
armes
big
and
long
without
any
measure
,
and
all
his
bodie
as
blacke
as
any
coale
,
and
as
hard
as
brasse
:
Also
of
such
a
strength
that
he
is
able
to
carrie
awaie
at
once
,
thrée
Knights
Armed
,
and
he
neuer
eateth
any
other
meat
but
raw
flesh
of
mankinde
:
he
is
so
light
and
swift
that
a
horse
cannot
run
from
him
,
and
oftentimes
hee
hath
béene
assayed
with
great
Troups
of
Armed
men
,
but
all
of
them
could
ne●er
doe
him
any
harme
,
neyther
with
sword
,
speare
,
crosbow
,
nor
any
other
weapon
.
Thus
haue
you
heard
most
noble
and
curteous
Knight
,
the
true
discourse
of
my
vtter
r●ine
,
and
the
vengeance
shewed
vppon
my
Countrie
by
this
wicked
Nigromancer
:
for
which
I
haue
remayned
euer
since
in
this
Pauilion
amongst
my
maydes
,
where
wee
pray
both
day
and
night
,
that
some
vnhappie
fortune
,
or
tyrrible
vengeance
may
fall
vpon
this
wicked
Coniurer
.
Now
as
I
am
true
English
Knight
(
replied
S.
George
)
no
sooner
shall
the
morninges
Sunne
appeare
but
I
wil
take
my
iournie
to
that
inchaunted
Tower
:
in
to
which
I
le
enter
in
despite
of
the
Gyant
,
and
breake
the
Inchantment
,
or
make
my
graue
within
the
Monsters
bowelles
:
which
if
I
happely
perfourme
,
then
will
I
trauaile
into
Persia
,
and
feltes
vp
the
most
wicked
and
damned
Nigtomancer
,
and
like
a
blood
hound
lead
him
vp
and
downe
the
world
in
Chaynes
▪
Most
dangerous
is
the
aduenture
(
quoth
the
Amazonian
Quéene
)
from
whence
as
yet
did
neuer
Knight
returne
:
But
if
thou
be
so
resolute
and
Noble
minded
as
to
attempt
the
enterprise
,
then
happie
bee
your
fortune
.
And
knowe
braue
Knight
,
that
this
tower
lieth
westward
,
from
hence
some
thréescore
miles
,
and
thereupon
shée
tooke
him
by
the
hand
,
and
caused
Sabra
likewise
to
alight
from
her
Palfray
and
led
them
both
into
her
Pauilion
:
where
they
were
feasted
most
royally
,
and
for
that
night
slept
securely
:
But
when
the
dayes
bright
windowes
opened
,
and
the
Morning
Sunne
began
to
glister
,
in
all
the
haste
saint
George
that
valiant
minded
Champion
,
arose
from
his
swéet
content
,
and
Armed
him selfe
:
where
after
hee
had
taken
hys
leaue
of
the
Quéene
,
and
gaue
her
thankes
for
hys
curteous
entertainement
,
and
also
taken
hys
leaue
of
Sabra
:
whome
he
left
in
companie
of
the
Quéenes
maides
,
till
hys
returne
with
conquest
,
and
so
rode
foorth
till
it
was
Noone
,
and
then
he
entred
into
a
déepe
Ualley
,
and
euer
hee
rode
lower
and
lower
.
It
was
then
a
faire
day
,
and
the
Sun
shined
cleare
:
but
by
that
time
he
had
ridden
two
miles
and
a
halfe
,
he
had
lost
both
the
light
of
the
Sunne
,
and
also
the
sight
of
heauen
:
for
it
was
there
as
darke
as
night
,
&
more
dismall
than
the
déepest
dungeon
▪
At
last
he
found
a
mighty
riuer
with
streames
as
blacke
as
pitch
,
and
the
bankes
were
so
high
,
that
the
water
coulde
scarce
bee
séene
running
vnderneath
,
and
it
was
so
full
of
Serpents
,
that
none
could
enter
amongst
them
that
euer
returned
backe
with
life
:
Abou●
his
heade
flewe
monstrous
byrds
and
diuers
Griffons
,
who
were
able
to
beare
away
an
Armed
Knight
horse
and
all
,
and
were
in
as
great
multitudes
,
as
though
they
had
béene
Starlings
:
Also
there
were
flyes
as
bigge
as
nuts
,
and
as
blacke
as
pitch
,
which
s●ung
him
and
his
horse
so
grieuously
,
that
there
issued
downe
such
store
of
bloode
,
that
it
changed
his
horse
from
a
sable
to
a
crimson
colour
:
likewise
the
Griffons
strook
at
saint
George
with
theyr
talents
so
furiously
,
that
had
not
hee
defended
himselfe
with
his
shield
,
which
couered
his
whole
body
,
hée
had
béene
pierced
to
the
hart
.
In
this
dangerous
manner
rode
he
on
,
till
he
came
to
the
gates
of
the
inchaunted
Tower
,
where
as
the
Gyant
sate
in
his
yron
coate
vpon
a
blocke
▪
with
a
mace
of
steele
in
his
hand
,
who
at
the
first
sight
of
saint
George
,
beate
his
téeth
so
mightely
together
,
that
they
rung
like
the
strokes
of
an
Anuile
,
and
ran
raging
like
a
Fiende
of
hell
,
thinking
to
haue
taken
the
Champion
horse
and
all
in
his
long
téeth
,
that
were
as
sharpe
as
stéele
,
and
to
haue
borne
them
presently
into
the
Tower
:
But
when
saint
George
perceiued
his
mouth
open
,
he
tooke
his
sword
and
thrust
therein
so
far
,
that
it
made
the
Gyant
to
roare
so
lowd
,
that
the
Elements
séemed
to
thunder
,
and
the
earth
to
tremble
,
his
mouth
smoakt
like
a
fiery
Furnace
.
and
his
eyes
rowled
in
his
head
lik●
brands
of
flaming
fier
:
the
wounde
was
so
great
,
and
the
blood
issued
so
fast
from
the
Gyants
mouth
,
that
his
courage
began
to
quayle
,
and
against
his
will
,
he
was
forced
to
yéeld
to
the
Champions
mercy
,
and
to
beg
for
life
,
to
which
saint
George
agreed
,
but
vppon
condition
,
that
the
Gyant
would
discouer
all
the
secrets
of
the
Tower
,
and
euer
after
●e
sworne
his
true
seruant
,
and
to
attend
on
him
with
all
dilligence
:
To
which
the
Giant
swore
by
hys
own
soule
,
neuer
to
leaue
him
in
extreamitie
,
&
to
answere
him
truely
to
all
questions
whatsoeuer
:
Then
saint
George
demaunded
the
cause
of
the
darkenes
,
and
how
it
might
be
ceased
,
to
which
the
Gyant
answered
in
this
manner
.
There
was
within
this
Countrie
about
some
twelue
yeares
since
,
a
cunning
Nigromancer
that
by
Inchauntment
built
this
Tower
,
the
which
you
nowe
beheld
,
and
therein
caused
a
tyrrible
fire
to
spring
from
the
earth
,
that
cast
such
a
smoake
ouer
the
whole
land
:
whereby
the
people
that
were
wont
to
dwell
therein
are
fled
and
famished
for
hunger
:
Also
this
Inch●unter
by
his
Arte
,
made
the
Riuer
that
you
haue
passed
,
the
which
did
neuer
man
before
this
time
without
death
:
Also
within
the
T●wer
nere
vnto
the
fire
,
there
standes
a
faire
and
plentifull
fountaine
:
to
which
if
euer
any
Knight
be
able
to
attaine
,
and
cast
the
water
thereof
into
the
fire
:
then
shall
the
darkenes
euer
after
cease
,
and
the
Inchantment
end
:
for
which
cause
I
haue
béene
bound
to
guard
and
kéepe
this
Tower
from
the
atchiuement
of
any
Knight
.
Thus
when
the
Giant
had
ended
hys
discourse
,
saint
George
commaunded
him
to
remaine
at
the
Gat●
,
for
hee
would
aduenture
to
end
the
Inchauntment
,
and
deliuer
the
Countrie
from
so
grieuous
a
plague
:
Then
went
hee
close
by
the
windowes
of
the
Tower
,
the
which
were
sixteene
speares
in
length
and
breadth
,
til
he
came
to
a
little
wicket
,
through
which
hee
must
néedes
enter
▪
yet
was
it
set
as
thicke
with
pickes
of
stéele
,
as
the
pricks
of
an
Urchens
skinne
,
to
the
intent
that
no
Knight
should
approach
neare
vnto
the
dore
,
nor
once
attempt
to
enter
the
Tower
:
yet
with
great
danger
he
opened
the
wicket
:
whereout
came
such
abundance
of
smoake
,
that
the
darkenes
of
the
countrie
doubled
:
so
that
neyther
Torch
nor
Candle
woulde
burne
in
any
place
:
yet
neuertheles
saint
George
entred
,
and
went
downewardes
vpon
stayers
,
where
hee
could
sée
nothing
:
but
yet
felt
so
many
great
blowes
vpon
his
Burgonet
,
that
he
was
constrayned
to
knéele
vpon
his
knées
,
&
with
his
shield
to
defend
himselfe
,
or
els
he
had
beene
brused
to
peeces
:
At
last
hee
came
to
the
bottome
,
and
there
hee
found
a
faier
great
vault
,
where
he
felt
so
tyrrible
a
heate
,
that
he
sweat
excéedingly
,
and
as
he
felt
about
him
,
hee
perceaued
that
he
approached
néere
the
fire
,
and
going
a
little
further
he
espied
out
the
Fountaine
,
whereat
hee
greatlie
reioyced
:
and
so
he
tooke
his
shield
,
and
bore
therein
as
much
water
as
he
could
and
cast
it
into
the
fire
:
In
conclusion
,
labouring
so
long
till
the
fire
was
cleane
quenched
,
then
began
the
skyes
to
receaue
their
perfect
lightnes
,
and
the
golden
Sunne
to
shine
most
clearelie
about
him
,
whereby
hee
plainely
perceaued
how
there
stoode
vppon
the
stayers
many
great
Images
of
Brasse
,
holding
in
their
handes
mightie
Maces
of
stéele
,
the
which
had
done
him
much
trouble
at
his
comming
downe
:
but
then
their
power
was
ended
,
the
fire
quenched
,
and
the
Inchauntment
finished
.
Thus
when
saint
George
through
hys
inuincible
fortitude
had
performed
this
dangerous
aduenture
,
hee
grew
wearie
of
trauaile
:
what
with
heate
and
sweating
,
and
the
mightie
blowes
he
receaued
from
the
Br●zen
Images
,
that
he
returned
againe
to
the
little
wicket
:
whereas
the
deformed
Gyant
still
remayned
:
who
when
he
beheld
the
Champion
returne
both
safe
and
sound
,
hee
fell
vppon
hys
knée
before
him
and
said
.
Sir
Knight
you
are
most
welcome
,
and
happilie
returned
:
for
you
are
the
flower
of
Chiualrie
,
and
the
brauest
Champion
in
the
world
.
Commaund
my
seruice
,
dutie
and
obedience
:
for
whilst
I
liue
I
doe
protest
by
the
burning
Banckes
of
Acharon
,
neuer
to
follow
any
Knight
but
you
,
and
thereupon
I
kisse
your
golden
spurre
,
which
is
the
Noble
badge
of
Knighthood
.
This
humble
submission
of
the
Gyant
caused
the
Champion
to
reioyce
,
not
for
his
ouerthrow
,
but
that
he
had
gotten
so
mighty
a
seruant
:
then
vnlaced
he
his
Helmet
,
and
laie
downe
after
hys
wearie
Encounter
,
where
after
hee
had
sufficiently
rested
himselfe
,
he
tooke
his
iournie
in
companie
of
the
Gyant
to
the
Amazonian
Quéene
:
where
he
left
hys
Lady
,
in
companie
of
her
virgins
:
who
like
a
kinde
,
modest
,
and
vertuous
wife
,
during
all
the
time
of
her
husbands
absence
,
continually
praied
to
the
immortal
powers
of
heauen
,
for
his
fortunate
successe
,
and
happy
returne
,
otherwise
resoluing
her selfe
,
if
the
lowring
destenies
should
crosse
hys
intent
,
and
vnluckilie
end
his
dayes
before
the
aduenture
were
accomplished
:
then
to
spende
the
remnant
of
her
life
,
amongst
th●se
happie
virgins
:
But
on
the
sodaine
before
the
Queene
and
her
virgins
were
a
ware
,
S.
George
ariued
before
the
Pauillion
,
dutifully
attended
on
by
the
Giant
:
who
bore
vpon
his
shoulder
the
body
of
a
tal
Oake
,
by
which
the
Quéene
knewe
that
his
prowesse
had
redéemed
her
country
from
darkenes
,
and
deliuered
her
from
sorrow
,
care
,
and
trouble
:
so
in
companie
of
he●
maides
very
gorgeously
atired
,
she
conducted
the
Champion
to
a
bower
of
Roses
,
intermingled
with
créeping
vines
,
the
which
in
his
absence
,
they
had
planted
for
hys
Ladies
delight
:
there
found
he
Sabra
at
her
diuine
prayers
,
like
a
solitarie
Widdow
,
clad
in
mourning
habilliments
:
but
when
shee
beheld
her
Lord
returne
in
saftie
,
she
banished
griefe
,
&
in
al
haste
ran
vnto
him
,
&
in
his
bosome
rauished
her selfe
with
pleasure
:
But
to
speake
how
the
Amazonian
Queene
feasted
them
,
and
in
what
maner
shée
and
her
Maides
deuised
pastimes
for
their
contents
,
were
too
tedious
to
repeate
:
but
when
night
gaue
end
to
their
pleasures
,
&
sléep
summoned
all
things
to
a
quiet
silence
,
the
Queene
brought
them
to
a
very
sumptuous
lodging
:
wherein
stood
a
bed
framed
with
Ebon
wood
ouerhung
with
manye
pendants
of
gold
,
the
Tik●
was
stuft
with
Downe
of
Turtle-Doue
,
the
shéetes
of
Maedian
silke
:
thereon
lay
a
rich
quilt
wrought
with
cotten
,
couered
with
dammaske
,
and
sticht
with
threds
of
gold
.
The
Quéene
bestowed
on
saint
George
at
hys
going
to
bed
,
an
imbrothered
shirt
,
curiouslie
wrought
with
many
rare
deuises
,
as
the
labors
of
Hercules
,
the
triumphs
of
Mars
,
&
the
loues
of
many
Potentates
wrought
in
such
curious
manner
,
as
though
Arte
her selfe
had
béene
the
contri●er
.
Sabra
at
her
going
to
bed
was
likewise
presented
by
the
Quéenes
maidens
,
with
a
light
Kirtle
of
chaungable
●iolet
,
somewhat
blushing
on
a
red
colour
:
Also
they
put
a
white
Kerchiefe
of
silke
vpon
her
head
,
somewhat
lose
and
vntied
:
so
that
vnder
the
same
her
Iuorie
throat
might
be
easilie
seene
,
and
her
faire
golden
haire
flying
about
her
necke
:
ouer
them
was
cast
a
mantle
of
gréene
silke
,
which
made
the
bed
seeme
more
beautifull
,
than
Floraes
richest
ornament
:
By
them
the
Quéene
and
her
virgins
fate
makeing
sweete
musicke
vpon
their
siluer
tuned
Lutes
,
till
golden
sléepe
had
closed
vp
their
eyes
:
The
which
béeing
done
the
Quéene
with
her
Ladies
departed
likewise
to
their
naturall
restes
:
But
all
this
while
the
Giant
neuer
entered
the
Pauilion
,
but
slept
as
soundly
vnder
the
roote
of
a
Pin●
trée
,
as
saint
George
did
in
his
imbrothered
bed
,
for
he
knew
not
what
pleasures
belonged
thereunto
,
nor
neuer
before
that
time
behelde
any
womans
face
:
At
last
the
night
withdrew
her
blacke
Curtens
,
and
gaue
the
morning
leaue
to
appeare
,
whose
fearefull
light
caused
saint
George
to
forsake
hys
bed
,
and
to
walke
some
few
miles
to
ouerview
the
Countrie
:
In
which
iournie
hée
tooke
such
excéeding
pleasure
,
that
hee
thought
it
the
goodliest
Realme
that
euer
hee
saw
:
for
he
perceiued
well
,
how
that
it
was
full
of
worldlie
wealth
.
At
last
hee
climbed
vp
to
the
toppe
of
a
high
Mountaine
béeing
some
two
miles
from
the
Queenes
Pauilion
:
whereon
he
stood
and
beheld
many
stately
Townes
and
Towers
,
high
and
mightie
Castels
,
many
large
woods
&
meadowes
,
and
manie
pleasant
Riuers
,
and
about
the
Townes
faire
Uines
,
goodlie
Pastures
and
fields
:
At
last
he
behelde
the
Cittie
of
Argenia
shining
against
the
Sun
,
the
place
where
the
Quéene
in
former
time
was
wont
to
keepe
her
Court
:
which
Cittie
was
inuironed
with
déepe
Ditches
,
the
wals
strongly
builded
,
&
more
than
fiue
hundred
Towers
made
of
lime
and
stone
:
also
he
saw
many
faire
Churches
couered
with
Lead
,
hauing
toppes
and
fyiers
of
gold
,
shining
most
gorgeously
with
weather
Cockes
of
siluer
glistring
against
the
Sun
:
also
he
saw
the
Burgesses
houses
stande
like
Pallaces
closed
with
high
and
strong
walles
,
barred
with
chaines
of
Iron
from
house
to
house
:
whereat
in
his
hart
he
praised
much
the
Noblenes
and
richnes
of
the
Cittie
,
and
saide
to
himselfe
that
it
might
well
be
called
Argenia
,
for
it
séemed
to
be
of
Argent
,
that
is
as
much
to
say
of
siluer
.
During
the
time
of
the
Champions
pleasurable
walke
,
which
continued
from
the
breake
of
day
,
to
the
closing
of
the
euening
,
behapned
a
wofull
Tragedie
nere
vnto
the
Quéenes
Pauilion
,
committed
by
the
monstrous
Gyant
,
whome
S.
George
brought
from
the
Inchaunted
Tower
:
For
that
same
morning
when
the
Sun
had
mounted
some
few
degrées
into
the
firmament
:
Seauen
of
the
Quéenes
Uirgins
in
Sabraes
companie
,
walked
into
a
pleasant
thicket
of
trees
adioyning
to
her
Pauilion
,
not
onely
to
take
the
pleasure
of
the
mornings
aire
:
but
to
heare
the
chirping
mellodie
of
birdes
:
In
which
thicket
or
groaue
vnder
a
Pyne
trée
this
Giant
lodged
the
passed
night
:
for
no
sooner
came
these
beautiful
Ladies
vnder
the
branches
of
the
trées
,
but
the
Giant
cast
his
eye
vpon
them
,
whose
rare
perfections
so
fired
the
heart
of
the
lustfull
Gyant
,
that
hee
must
eyther
quench
his
desires
with
the
spoyle
of
their
chasteties
,
or
end
hys
dayes
in
some
monstrous
manner
:
Therefore
he
starts
vp
from
the
place
where
he
lay
,
and
with
a
wrathfull
countenance
ran
amongst
the
Ladies
▪
and
catching
them
all
eyght
at
once
betwixt
hys
Armes
,
hee
bore
them
to
the
furthest
side
of
the
groue
,
where
hee
rauished
seauen
of
the
Quéenes
Maidens
,
and
afterward
deuoured
them
aliue
into
his
loathsome
bowels
:
But
Sabra
beeing
the
eighth
of
that
wofull
number
,
●hich
in
her
sight
she
beheld
butchered
by
that
bloodie
wolfe
:
still
continuing
the
time
of
their
rauishments
,
making
h●r
supplication
to
the
Gods
,
that
they
would
in
mercie
defend
her
chastetie
from
the
lustfull
ra●e
of
so
wicked
a
monster
,
and
immediatly
vpon
these
wordes
she
saw
an
vglie
toade
come
crauling
before
her
:
through
which
by
pollicie
shee
saued
her
life
,
and
preserued
her
Honour
:
For
she
tooke
the
toade
betwixt
her
hands
,
&
crushed
the
venome
from
her
impoysoned
bowels
,
wherewith
shee
all
to
be
sprinckled
her
face
:
so
that
presently
her
saier
beautie
,
was
chaunged
into
loathsome
blisters
:
for
she
then
seemed
more
like●
a
creature
deformed
with
Leprosie
,
than
a
Ladie
of
excellent
feature
.
At
length
shée
beeing
the
last
of
all
,
her
time
came
that
she
should
be
deflowred
,
and
the
lustfull
Gyant
came
to
fetch
her
:
but
when
hee
beheld
her
visage
so
inuenomed
,
he
loathed
her
sight
,
seeking
neyther
to
rauish
her
,
nor
proffering
to
deuoure
her
:
but
discontentedly
wandred
away
,
greatly
greeuing
at
the
committed
crime
,
and
sorely
repenting
himselfe
of
so
wicked
a
déede
:
not
onely
for
the
spoyle
of
the
seauen
Uirgins
,
but
for
the
wronges
proffered
to
so
Noble
a
Knight
:
who
not
onelie
graunted
him
libertie
of
life
,
but
receaued
him
into
his
seruice
:
therefore
he
raged
vp
and
downe
the
groaue
,
making
the
earth
to
tremble
at
hys
exclamations
:
one
while
cursing
his
fortune
and
houre
of
creation
:
another
while
banning
hys
Sire
and
diuelish
Dam
:
But
when
hee
remembred
the
Noble
Champion
saint
George
,
whose
angry
frowne
he
would
not
sée
for
all
the
world
:
therefore
to
preuent
the
same
,
he
runne
his
heade
most
furiously
against
a
knobbed
Oake
and
brayned
himselfe
:
where
wee
will
leaue
him
now
weltring
in
hys
blood
,
and
speake
what
became
of
Sab●●
after
this
bloody
accident
:
for
after
she
had
wandred
vp
and
downe
the
thicket
many
a
wearie
steppe
,
incensing
heauen
against
the
Giants
crueltie
:
the
Sunne
began
to
set
,
and
the
darke
night
drew
on
,
which
caused
her
thus
to
complaine
.
O
you
immortall
powers
of
heauen
,
and
you
celestiall
Planets
,
béeing
the
true
guiders
of
the
firmaments
!
open
your
bright
celestiall
gates
,
and
send
some
fatall
Plannet
,
or
some
burning
thunderbolt
,
to
rid
mee
from
the
vale
of
miserie
,
for
I
will
neuer
more
returne
to
my
beloued
Lord
,
sith
I
am
thus
deformed
,
and
made
an
vglie
creature
,
my
loathsome
face
will
proue
a
corasiue
to
his
hart
,
and
my
bodie
a
torment
to
his
soule
,
my
sight
will
be
displeasant
,
my
company
hated
,
my
presence
loathed
,
and
euery
one
will
shun
my
sight
as
from
a
Crocadiles
:
therefore
I
will
remaine
within
this
groue
,
till
the
heauens
either
bring
mee
to
my
former
beauty
,
or
ende
my
languishing
misery
▪
yet
witnesse
heauen
of
my
loyalty
vnto
my
Lorde
,
and
in
what
extreamity
I
haue
maintained
my
chastety
,
in
remembrance
of
my
true
loue
here
will
I
leaue
this
chaine
of
gold
,
for
my
beloued
Lord
to
finde
,
that
he
may
knowe
,
for
his
sake
I
haue
indured
a
world
of
woe
:
At
which
spéeches
she
tooke
her
Chayne
(
which
was
doubled
twenty
times
about
her
necke
)
and
left
it
lying
all
be
smeard
in
the
blood
of
those
virgins
whome
the
Gyant
had
rauished
and
slayne
,
and
so
betooke
her selfe
to
a
sad
and
solitary
life
,
intending
neuer
to
come
in
the
sight
of
men
,
but
to
spend
her
dayes
wandring
in
the
woods
:
where
we
will
likewise
leaue
her
for
a
time
&
speake
of
saint
George
,
who
by
this
was
returned
to
the
Quéenes
Pauillion
,
where
hee
missing
his
Lady
,
and
had
intelligence
how
that
shee
in
company
of
seauen
other
Ladies
,
walked
in
the
morning
into
a
pleasant
groue
,
to
heare
the
mellody
of
byrdes
,
and
since
that
time
no
newes
hath
béene
heard
of
them
:
for
as
then
it
grewe
towardes
night
,
which
caused
saint
George
greatly
to
mistrust
that
some
mischance
had
befalne
his
Lady
:
then
he
demaunded
what
was
become
of
the
Giant
,
but
answere
was
made
that
hee
was
neyther
séene
nor
heard
off
since
morning
,
which
caused
him
greatly
to
suspect
the
Gyants
treachery
,
and
how
that
by
his
meanes
the
Ladyes
were
preuented
of
theyr
purposed
pleasures
.
Therefore
in
all
hast
like
a
franticke
man
he
ran
into
the
thicket
,
filling
each
corner
with
clamours
and
resounding
ecchoes
of
her
name
,
and
calling
for
Sabra
through
euery
bramble
bush
:
but
there
he
could
neyther
heare
the
voyce
of
Sabra
,
nor
the
answere
of
any
other
Ladie
,
but
the
wofull
eccho
of
his
exclamations
,
which
ratled
through
the
leaues
of
trees
:
then
began
he
to
waxe
something
melancholie
&
passionate
,
wearing
the
time
away
with
wofull
lamentations
,
till
bright
Cinthia
mounted
on
the
Hemispheeres
:
by
whose
glistring
beames
,
he
saw
the
ground
besprinckled
with
purple
gore
,
&
found
the
chaine
that
Sabra
was
wont
to
weare
about
her
necke
all
be
smeerde
in
blood
▪
he
bitterlie
complained
against
his
owne
fortune
,
and
his
Ladies
haples
destenie
,
for
he
supposed
then
that
the
Gyant
had
murthered
her
.
O
discontented
sight
(
said
he
)
heere
lies
the
blood
of
my
beloued
Ladie
,
the
truest
woman
that
euer
Knight
inioyed
:
that
bodie
which
for
excellence
deserued
a
Monument
of
gold
,
more
richer
than
the
Toombe
of
Angelica
,
I
feare
lyes
buried
in
the
bowels
of
that
monstrous
Gyant
,
whose
life
vnhapps●ie
I
graunted
.
Héere
is
the
chaine
besmeered
with
blood
,
which
at
our
first
acquaintance
I
gaue
her
in
a
Courtlie
Maske
.
This
golden
chaine
I
say
stained
with
the
blood
of
my
deare
Ladie
,
shall
for
euermore
bee
kept
within
my
bosome
,
ne●e
vnto
my
bleeding
hart
,
that
I
may
st●ll
remember
her
true
loue
,
faith
and
constancie
:
but
fond
foole
that
I
am
,
why
doe
I
talke
in
vaine
?
It
will
not
recompence
her
murthered
soule
,
the
which
me
thinks
I
heare
howe
it
calles
for
reuenge
in
euerie
corner
of
this
groane
:
It
was
I
that
left
her
careleslie
within
the
daunger
of
the
Gyant
,
whome
I
little
m●strusted
:
therefore
will
I
méete
her
in
the
Elizian
shades
,
and
craue
remission
for
my
committed
trespasse
,
for
on
this
Oake
I
will
abridge
my
life
,
as
did
the
worthie
Knight
Melmerophon
for
the
loue
of
his
Ladie
Sillera
:
which
lamentation
béeing
no
sooner
ended
,
but
he
tooke
the
chaine
of
gold
and
fastned
one
ende
to
the
Arme
of
a
great
Oake
,
and
the
other
end
to
hys
own
necke
,
intending
presentlie
to
strangle
himselfe
,
but
heauen
preuented
his
desperate
intent
after
a
straunge
manner
:
For
vnder
the
sam●
trée
the
brayned
Gyant
lay
not
yet
fully
dead
,
who
in
this
manner
spake
to
saint
George
.
O
stay
thy
hand
most
Noble
and
inuincible
Knight
the
worlds
chiefe
wonder
for
admired
Chiualrie
,
and
let
my
dying
soule
conuer●
thee
from
so
wicked
a
deed
:
Seauen
virgins
in
this
Thicket
haue
I
rauished
,
and
buried
all
their
bodyes
in
my
accursed
bowelles
:
but
before
I
could
deflower
,
the
eighth
,
in
a
straunge
manner
hir
bright
beauty
was
conuerted
in
to
a
loathsome
leprosie
,
whereby
I
detested
hir
sight
,
and
lost
hir
chastetye
vndefiled
:
but
by
hir
sad
complaynts
I
since
haue
vnderstood
,
how
that
she
is
your
Ladie
and
Lo●●
,
and
to
this
hower
she
hath
hir
residence
with
in
the
c●●uite
of
this
thicket
,
and
thereuppon
with
a
dolefull
grone
which
seemed
to
shake
the
ground
he
had
a
due
to
the
world
▪
then
saint
George
being
glad
to
heare
such
tydings
reuerted
from
his
desperate
intent
,
and
searched
vp
and
downe
the
Groue
,
till
he
found
Sabra
where
shee
sate
,
sorrowing
vnder
the
braunches
of
a
mulberie
trée
,
betwixt
whome
was
a
sad
and
heauie
greeting
,
and
as
they
walked
backe
to
the
Queenes
Pauillion
,
shee
discoused
to
him
the
truth
of
this
bloody
stratagem
:
where
shee
remayned
till
the
Amazonian
Quéene
had
cured
her
leprosie
by
the
secret
vertue
of
her
skill
:
of
whome
after
they
had
taken
leaue
,
&
giuen
her
thankes
for
her
kinde
curtesies
,
saint
George
with
hys
Ladie
tooke
their
iournie
towards
Persia
,
where
the
Christian
Armies
lay
incampt
:
At
whose
ariuall
you
shall
heare
strange
and
woonderfull
thinges
,
the
like
was
neuer
done
in
any
age
.
CHAP
XVII
.
How
Saint
George
and
his
Ladie
lost
themselues
in
a
wildernes
,
where
she
was
deluered
of
three
goodlie
boies
:
The
Fayerie
Queenes
Prophecie
vppon
the
Childrens
fortunes
:
Of
Saint
Georges
returne
into
Bohemia
,
where
he
christned
his
Children
,
and
of
the
finding
of
his
Fathers
graue
,
ouer
which
he
built
a
statelie
Toombe
.
SAint
George
hauing
atchiued
the
aduenture
of
the
Inchaunted
Tower
,
and
Sabra
the
Furie
of
the
lustfull
Gyant
:
they
tooke
their
iournie
towards
Persia
,
where
the
Christian
Champions
lay
incamped
before
the
Seldans
great
Cittie
of
Graund
Belgor
,
a
place
most
straungely
fortefied
with
spirits
and
other
gastlie
illusions
by
the
Inchauntment
of
Osmond
,
whome
you
heard
before
in
the
last
Chapter
,
to
bee
the
rarest
Nigr●mancer
in
the
world
:
But
as
the
English
Champion
with
his
Ladie
trauiled
thetherward
,
they
hapned
into
a
D●sart
,
and
mightie
Wildernes
,
ouergrowne
with
loftie
Pines
,
&
Ceder
trées
,
and
many
huge
and
mightie
Oakes
,
the
spreading
braunches
whereof
,
séemed
to
withold
the
light
of
heauen
from
their
vntroden
passages
,
and
the
toppes
for
exceeding
height
to
reach
into
the
Elements
:
the
Inhabitantes
were
Siluaines
,
Satiers
,
Faieries
,
and
other
woodie
Nimphes
,
which
by
day
sported
vp
and
downe
the
Forrest
,
and
by
night
tended
the
pleasure
of
Proserpine
the
Fayrie
Quéene
.
The
musicke
of
siluer
sounding
birds
,
so
chearefullie
resounding
through
the
woodes
,
and
the
whistling
winde
made
●uch
m●l●die
amongst
the
leaues
of
trees
,
that
it
rauished
their
●eces
like
the
harmonie
of
Angels
,
&
made
them
thinke
they
had
entred
the
shades
of
gladsome
Elizian
:
one
while
they
wondred
at
the
beautie
of
the
Woods
,
which
nature
had
ornefied
with
a
Sommers
liuerie
:
another
while
at
the
gréene
and
fragrant
grasse
,
drawne
out
in
round
circles
by
the
Fayries
daunces
:
so
long
till
they
had
lost
themselues
amongst
the
vnknown
passages
,
not
knowing
how
nor
by
what
meanes
to
recouer
the
per●ect
path
of
the●e
intended
iournie
,
but
were
constrained
to
wander
in
the
Wildernes
like
solitarie
Pilgrims
,
spending
the
daie
with
wearie
steps
,
and
the
night
with
vaine
imaginations
,
euen
as
a
childe
when
hee
hath
lost
himselfe
in
a
populous
Citt●e
,
runneth
vp
and
downe
not
knowing
how
to
retur●e
to
his
natiue
dwelling
:
Euen
so
it
hapned
to
these
two
lost
and
disconsolate
trauailers
:
for
when
they
had
wandred
many
dayes
one
waie
,
and
finding
no
end
to
their
toyles
,
they
retired
backeward
to
the
place
of
their
first
setting
foorth
:
where
they
were
wont
to
heare
the
noyse
of
people
resound
in
Countrie
Uillages
,
and
to
méete
trauailers
posting
from
place
to
place
:
but
now
they
heard
nothing
but
blustring
of
windes
▪
ratling
in
the
woods
,
making
the
brambles
to
whistle
,
and
the
trées
to
groane
,
and
now
and
then
to
méete
a
speckled
beast
like
to
the
rainebow
,
weltring
from
his
Den
to
séeke
his
naturall
sustenance
:
In
their
trauaile
by
night
they
were
wont
to
heare
the
crowing
Cocke
,
recording
glad
tydings
of
the
chearefull
dayes
approach
,
the
naying
of
horses
in
pasture
fields
,
and
the
barcking
of
dogs
in
Farmers
houses
:
but
now
they
were
affrighted
with
the
roring
of
Lyons
,
yelling
of
Caues
,
the
crooking
of
Toades
in
rootes
of
rotten
trées
,
and
the
rufull
sound
of
Prognies
rauishment
,
recoroded
by
the
Nightingale
.
In
this
solitarie
manner
wearied
they
the
rouling
time
away
,
till
thrice
thrée
times
the
siluer
Moone
had
renewed
her
borrowed
light
:
by
which
time
the
burthen
of
Sabraes
wombe
began
to
grow
painefull
,
●nd
the
fruite
of
her
bodie
to
waxe
ripe
,
the
houre
of
her
deliuerie
drew
on
,
wherein
she
required
Lucinaes
help
to
make
saint
George
the
father
of
a
Princely
Sonne
:
time
called
for
Midwiues
to
aide
&
bring
her
Babe
into
the
world
,
and
to
make
her
a
happ●e
mother
:
but
before
the
painefull
houre
of
her
deliuerie
approacht
,
Saint
George
had
prouided
her
a
bower
of
〈◊〉
braunches
,
which
he
erected
betwixt
two
pleasant
Hilles
▪
where
in
steede
of
a
Princely
Cabbinet
,
be
hung
with
Arras
and
rich
Tapestrie
,
shee
was
constrained
to
suffice
her selfe
with
a
simple
lodging
,
couered
with
Roses
and
other
fragrant
flowers
:
her
bedde
hee
made
of
greene
mosse
and
thistle
Downe
,
béeset
curiously
rounde
about
with
Oliue
braunches
,
and
the
sprigges
of
an
Orring
trée
,
which
made
it
séeme
more
beautifull
than
Floraes
Pauillion
,
or
Dianaes
Mansion
:
but
at
the
last
when
shée
felt
the
paynes
of
her
wombe
grow
intollerable
,
and
the
seed
readie
to
be
reaped
,
and
how
she
was
in
a
Wildernes
deuoyde
of
womens
company
,
that
should
be
readie
to
assist
her
in
so
secret
a
matter
,
shée
cast
her selfe
downe
vppon
her
mossie
bed
,
and
with
a
blushing
countenance
she
discouered
her
minde
in
this
order
to
saint
George
.
My
most
deare
and
louing
Lord
(
quoth
shée
)
my
true
&
onely
companion
at
all
times
and
seasons
except
at
this
houre
,
for
it
is
the
painefull
houre
of
my
deliuerie
:
therefore
depart
from
out
the
hearing
of
my
cryes
,
and
commit
my
fortune
to
the
pleasures
of
the
heauens
:
for
it
is
not
conuenient
for
any
mans
e●e
to
behold
the
secrets
of
a
woman
in
such
a
case
:
stay
not
I
say
deare
Lorde
to
sée
the
Infant
now
sprawling
in
my
wombe
to
be
deliuered
from
the
bed
of
his
creation
,
forsake
my
presence
for
a
time
,
and
let
mée
like
the
Noble
Quéene
of
Fraunce
,
obtaine
the
fauour
of
some
Fayrie
to
be
my
Midwife
,
that
my
Babe
may
be
as
happily
borne
in
this
Wildernes
,
as
was
her
valiant
Sons
Vallentine
and
Orson
:
the
one
of
them
was
cherrisht
by
a
King
,
and
the
other
by
a
Beare
;
yet
both
of
them
grew
famous
in
their
déedes
:
My
paine
is
great
deare
Lord
,
therefore
depart
my
Cabbinet
,
and
before
bright
Phoebus
lodgeth
in
the
W●st
,
I
shall
eyther
be
a
happie
mother
,
or
a
liueles
body
:
thou
a
ioyfull
Father
,
or
a
sorrowfull
Widdower
.
At
which
wordes
Saint
George
sealed
agreement
with
a
kisse
and
silently
departed
without
any
reply
:
but
with
a
thousand
sighes
he
had
her
adue
,
and
so
tooke
his
way
to
the
top
of
a
Mountaine
,
being
in
distance
from
hys
Ladies
abyding
a
quarter
of
a
mile
:
there
kneeled
hee
during
the
time
of
her
trauailes
,
with
hys
bare
knées
vpon
the
bowels
of
the
earth
,
neuer
ceasing
prayer
,
but
continually
soliciting
the
M●●estie
of
God
,
to
graunt
his
Lady
a
speedy
deliuerie
:
at
whose
diuine
orizons
the
heauens
seemed
to
relent
,
and
all
the
time
of
her
paine
,
co●ered
the
worlde
with
a
vale
of
darkenes
:
whole
flights
of
birdes
,
with
Troupes
of
vntamed
beasts
●ame
flocking
round
about
the
Mountain
where
he
knéeled
,
and
in
their
kindes
assisted
his
celestiall
contemplations
:
where
I
will
leaue
him
for
a
time
,
and
speake
what
hapned
to
Sabra
in
the
middle
of
her
paynes
and
extreamitie
of
her
trauailes
:
for
after
saint
Georges
departure
,
the
furie
of
her
griefe
so
raged
in
her
wombe
,
that
it
exceeded
the
boundes
of
reason
,
whereby
hys
hart
was
constrained
to
breath
so
many
scortching
sighes
,
that
they
séemed
to
blast
the
leaues
of
trées
,
and
to
wither
the
flowers
which
beautefied
her
Cabbinet
:
her
burthened
tormentes
caused
her
star-bright
eyes
like
fountaines
to
distill
downe
siluer
drops
,
and
all
the
rest
of
her
bodie
to
tremble
like
a
Castle
in
a
tyrrible
earthquake
:
so
grieuous
was
her
paynes
,
and
rufull
was
her
cryes
,
that
shee
caused
the
mercilesse
Tygers
to
relent
,
and
vntamed
Lyons
with
other
wilde
Beastes
,
like
sillie
Lambes
to
sit
and
bleate
:
her
grieuous
cryes
and
bitter
moanes
,
caused
the
Heauens
as
it
were
to
bleede
their
vapours
downe
,
and
the
earth
to
wéepe
a
spring
of
teares
:
both
hearbes
and
trées
did
s●eme
to
droope
,
hard
stonie
Rockes
to
sweate
when
shee
complayned
.
At
last
her
pittifull
cries
pearced
downe
too
the
lowest
vaults
of
direfull
Di●
,
where
Proserp●●e
●is
Crowned
amongst
her
Fayries
,
and
so
preuailed
:
that
in
all
haste
she
ascended
from
her
regiment
to
worlde
this
Ladies
〈◊〉
deliuerie
,
and
●o
make
her
mother
of
〈…〉
:
who
〈…〉
the
dutie
of
〈…〉
her
wombe
,
and
safelie
brought
her
〈◊〉
into
the
wor●d
:
At
whose
first
sight
the
heauens
began
to
smile
,
and
the
earth
to
reioyce
,
as
a
signe
and
token
that
in
time
to
come
,
they
would
proue
thrée
of
the
Noblest
Knights
in
the
world
.
This
●urteous
déede
of
Proserpine
▪
béeing
no
sooner
performed
:
but
she
laide
the
three
boyes
in
three
most
rich
and
sumptuous
Cradles
,
the
which
she
caused
her
Fayries
to
fetch
inuicible
from
thrée
of
the
richest
kinges
in
the
world
,
and
therewithall
mantles
of
silke
,
with
other
things
thervnto
belonging
:
Likewise
she
caused
a
winged
S●●●er
to
fetch
from
the
furthiest
borders
of
India
,
a
couering
of
dammaske
Ta●●●tie
imbrodered
with
gold
,
the
most
richest
ornament
that
euen
mortall
eye
behelde
:
for
thereon
was
wrought
and
〈◊〉
portraied
by
the
curious
skill
of
Indian
〈◊〉
,
how
God
created
heauen
and
earth
,
the
w●ndring
courses
both
of
Sunne
and
Moone
,
and
likewise
howe
the
golden
Plannets
daylie
doe
prodominate
:
Also
there
is
no
Storie
in
anye
age
remembred
since
the
beginning
of
the
world
,
but
it
was
thereon
most
p●●fectly
wrought
:
So
excellent
it
was
that
Art
herselfe
could
neuer
deuise
a
cuninger
.
With
this
rich
and
sumptuous
ornament
shee
couered
the
Ladies
Childe-bed
:
whereby
it
seemed
to
surpasse
in
brauerie
the
gorgeous
bed
of
Iuno
Queene
of
heauen
:
when
first
she
entertained
imperious
Ioue
.
After
this
Proserpine
laid
vnder
euerie
childes
pillow
a
siluer
Tablet
,
wheron
was
written
in
letters
of
gold
,
their
good
and
happy
fortunes
.
Under
the
first
were
these
verses
caractered
,
who
at
that
time
lay
frowning
in
hys
Cradle
like
the
God
of
Warre
.
A
souldi●●●old
a
man
of
wondrous
might
,
A
King
likewise
this
royall
babe
shal
di●
Three
golden
D●●de
〈◊〉
bloody
fight
,
By
this
braue
Prince
shal●
conquered
be
:
The
Towers
of
fay●r
〈◊〉
and
Roome
,
Shall
yeeld
to
him
in
happ●
〈◊〉
to
come
.
Under
the
pillow
of
the
second
Babe
was
caractered
these
verses
following
:
who
lay
in
his
cradle
smil●●g
like
Cupid
vpon
the
la●●e
of
Dido
,
whome
V●nus
〈…〉
to
the
liknes
of
As●●nius
.
This
childe
shall
likewise
liue
to
be
a
King
,
Times
wonder
for
deuice
and
Courtly
spor●
▪
His
Til●es
and
Turniments
a
broad
shall
ring
,
To
euery
coast
where
Knightes
resort
:
Queenes
shall
atend
and
humble
at
his
feete
:
Thus
loue
and
bewtie
shall
together
meete
.
Lastly
,
vnder
the
pillow
of
the
third
were
these
verses
likewise
caractred
,
who
blushed
in
his
cradle
like
Pallas
when
her
stroue
for
the
golden
aple
with
Venus
and
the
Quéene
of
heauen
.
The
Muses
darling
for
true
sapience
,
In
Princes
Court
this
Babe
shall
spend
his
dayes
:
Kinges
shall
admire
his
learned
eloquence
,
And
write
in
brazen
bookes
his
endles
praise
▪
By
Pallas
gift
he
shall
atchiue
a
Crowne
,
Aduance
his
fame
and
lift
him
to
renowne
▪
Thus
when
the
Fayrie
Quéene
had
ended
her
Prophesie
vpon
the
Children
,
and
had
left
their
golden
Fortunes
lying
in
their
Cradles
,
she
vanished
away
,
leauing
the
Lady
reioycing
at
her
safe
deliuerie
,
and
woondred
at
the
gifts
of
Proserpine
;
which
she
coniectured
to
bée
but
shadowes
to
dazell
her
eyes
,
and
thinges
of
a
va●ing
substance
:
but
when
shée
had
laide
her
b●ndes
vppon
the
riche
couering
of
Dammaske
Taffatie
which
couered
her
mossie
bed
,
and
felt
that
it
was
the
selfe
same
forme
that
it
séemed
:
shée
cast
her
eyes
with
a
chearefull
looke
vp
to
the
Maiestie
of
heauen
,
and
not
onely
gaue
thankes
to
immortall
Ioue
for
her
rich
receaued
benefits
:
but
for
his
mercifull
kindnes
in
makeing
her
the
happie
Mother
of
three
such
goodly
children
:
but
we
will
now
returne
againe
to
the
noble
Champion
Saint
George
,
whome
we
left
praying
vppon
the
mountaine
top
:
and
as
you
heard
before
,
the
skies
were
ouerspred
with
Sable
Cloudes
,
as
though
they
had
béene
mourning
witnesses
of
hys
Ladies
torments
:
but
before
the
golden
Sunne
had
diu'de
into
watry
The●is
lap
,
the
●lemen
began
to
cleare
,
&
to
withdraw
her
former
mourning
Mantles
:
by
which
he
supposed
that
heauen
had
pi●●ied
his
Ladies
paines
,
&
granted
her
a
safe
deliuerie
:
therefore
in
all
hast
he
retired
back
to
the
Siluaine
Cabbinet
,
the
which
he
found
most
strangely
deckt
with
sumptuous
habilllments
,
hys
Lady
lying
in
her
Child-bed
as
glorious
,
as
if
shee
had
béene
the
greatest
Empresse
in
the
world
,
and
three
Princely
boyes
swéetlie
sléeping
in
their
seuerall
Cradles
:
At
whose
first
sight
hys
hart
was
so
rauished
with
ioy
,
that
for
a
time
it
with-held
the
passage
of
his
tongue
:
but
at
last
when
hee
found
the
siluer
Tablets
lying
vnder
the
pillows
,
and
had
read
the
happie
fortunes
of
his
Children
,
he
ran
vnto
his
Ladie
,
imbraced
her
most
louinglie
,
and
kindely
demaunded
the
true
discourse
of
that
strange
accident
,
and
by
whose
meanes
the
bower
was
beautefied
so
gorgeouslie
,
and
the
prop●under
of
his
Childrens
Prophesie
:
who
with
a
countenance
blushing
like
the
purple
Morning
,
replied
in
this
manner
.
My
most
deare
and
welbeloued
Lord
,
the
paynes
I
haue
indured
to
make
you
the
happie
Father
of
thrée
louelie
boyes
▪
hath
béene
more
tyrrible
than
the
str●ake
of
death
:
but
yet
my
deliuerie
more
ioyfull
than
the
pleasures
of
Elizian
:
the
windes
carried
my
groanes
to
euerie
corner
of
this
Wildernes
,
whereby
both
trées
and
hearbes
assisted
my
complaints
,
beasts
,
birdes
,
and
feathered
foules
,
with
euerie
sensses
thinge
that
nature
framed
on
this
earth
,
seemed
to
agrauate
my
mones
:
but
in
the
middle
of
my
torments
,
when
my
soule
was
readie
to
forsake
this
worldlie
habitation
:
there
appeared
to
me
a
Quéene
Crowned
with
a
golden
Diadem
,
in
state
and
gesture
,
like
imperious
Iuno
,
and
in
beautie
to
diuine
Diana
:
her
garments
for
brauerie
seemed
to
staine
the
Raine-bow
in
her
brightest
hue
,
and
for
diuersitie
in
colours
,
to
surpasse
the
Flowers
in
the
fieldes
:
On
her
attended
many
beautifull
Nimphes
,
some
clad
in
garments
in
colour
like
the
marble
Ocean
,
some
in
attire
as
gallant
as
the
purple
Rose
,
and
some
more
glorious
than
the
azurde
firmaments
:
her
wisedome
might
compare
with
Apolloes
▪
her
iudgement
with
Pallas
,
and
her
skill
with
Lucinaes
:
for
no
sooner
entred
she
my
presence
but
my
trauailes
ceased
,
and
my
wombe
deliuered
vp
her
grieuous
burthen
:
my
Bab●s
béeing
brought
to
light
by
the
vertue
of
her
skill
,
she
prepared
these
rich
and
sumptuous
Cradles
,
the
which
were
brought
inuisible
to
my
Cabbinet
:
Likewise
these
Mantled
&
this
imbrothered
Couerled
she
franckly
bestowed
vpon
me
,
and
so
immediatlie
vanished
away
.
At
which
wordes
saint
George
gaue
her
so
many
kinde
imbraces
,
and
kissed
her
so
louingly
,
as
though
it
had
bin
the
first
day
of
their
Nuptials
:
At
last
her
hunger
increased
,
and
her
desires
thirsted
so
much
after
foode
,
that
except
shée
receaued
some
comfortable
sustenance
,
her
life
were
in
danger
.
This
extreame
desire
of
Sabra
,
caused
S.
George
to
burkle
on
his
Armour
,
&
to
vnsheath
his
trustie
sword
,
ready
to
gorge
the
intrails
of
some
Deare
:
who
swore
by
the
honor
of
true
Knighthood
,
neuer
to
rest
in
peace
,
till
he
had
purchased
his
hearts
content
.
My
Loue
(
quoth
he
)
I
will
aduenture
for
thy
sake
,
more
daungers
than
Iason
●id
for
Medeas
loue
:
I
le
search
the
thickest
Groues
,
and
chase
the
nimble
Doe
to
death
:
the
flying
Foule
I
le
follow
vp
&
downe
from
tree
to
trée
,
till
ouer
wearied
they
doe
fall
and
die
:
For
loue
of
thee
and
these
my
tender
Babes
,
whome
I
estéeme
more
dearer
than
the
Conquest
of
rich
Babilon
:
I
will
aduenture
more
daungers
than
di●
Hercules
for
the
loue
of
Dianaria
,
and
more
extreames
than
Turnus
did
in
hys
blody
battels
,
&
thereupon
with
hys
Fanchion
readie
charged
,
he
traced
the
woods
,
leauing
no
thornie
brake
nor
mossie
Caue
vnsearcht
,
till
he
had
sound
a
heard
of
fallow
Deare
:
from
which
number
hee
singled
out
the
fattest
to
make
hys
Lady
a
bountifull
banquet
:
but
in
the
time
of
his
absence
there
hayned
to
Sabra
a
straunge
and
wonderfull
accident
:
for
there
came
weltring
into
her
Cabbinet
thrée
most
wilde
and
monstrous
beastes
,
a
Lyon
,
a
Tyger
,
and
a
shée
Wolfe
,
which
tooke
the
Babes
out
of
their
cradles
,
and
bore
them
to
their
secret
Canes
.
At
which
sight
,
Sabra
like
one
distraught
of
sence
,
started
from
her
bed
,
and
to
her
weake
power
offered
to
follow
the
Beastes
:
but
all
in
vaine
:
for
before
shee
coulde
get
without
her
Cabbinet
,
they
were
past
sight
,
and
the
Childrens
cryes
without
her
hearing
:
then
like
a
discontented
woman
she
turned
backe
,
beating
her
breasts
,
re●ding
her
haire
,
and
raging
vp
and
downe
her
Cabbinet
,
vsing
all
the
rigour
she
could
deuise
against
her selfe
,
and
had
not
Saint
George
returned
the
sooner
,
she
had
most
violently
committed
her
owne
slaughter
:
but
at
his
returne
when
he
beheld
her
face
stayned
with
teares
,
her
head
disrobde
of
ornaments
,
and
her
Iuorie
breastes
all
to
bee
rent
and
torne
,
he
cast
downe
his
venison
,
and
in
all
haste
asked
the
cause
of
her
sorrow
.
O
(
said
she
)
this
is
the
wofullest
day
that
euer
hapt
to
●e
:
for
in
the
time
of
your
vnhappie
hunting
a
Lyones
,
a
Tygresse
,
and
a
Wolfe
came
into
my
Cabbinet
and
tooke
my
Children
from
their
Cradles
,
what
is
become
of
them
I
know
not
:
but
greatly
I
feare
by
this
time
,
they
are
intoombed
within
their
hungry
bowels
.
O
simple
Monuments
(
quoth
he
)
for
such
swéet
Babes
!
Well
Sabra
,
if
the
monsters
haue
berea●ed
mee
of
my
children
:
this
bloody
sword
that
diu●de
into
the
intrailes
of
fallow
Deare
,
shall
riue
my
wofull
heart
in
twaine
.
Accursed
be
this
fatall
day
:
the
Planets
that
predominate
,
&
Sunne
that
shines
thereon
:
Heauen
blot
it
from
the
yere
,
and
let
it
neuer
more
be
numbred
,
but
accounted
for
a
dismall
day
through
all
the
world
:
let
all
the
trees
bee
blasted
in
these
accursed
woods
:
let
hearbes
and
grasse
consume
a
way
and
die
,
and
all
thinges
perish
in
this
Wildernes
:
but
why
breath
I
out
these
curses
in
vaine
,
when
as
me
thinks
I
heare
my
Children
in
vntamed
Lyons
dens
crying
for
help
and
succour
:
I
come
swéet
Babes
I
come
,
eyther
to
redéeme
you
from
the
Tygers
wrathfull
Iawes
,
or
make
my
graue
within
their
bowels
:
then
tooke
hee
vp
●●s
sword
besméered
all
with
blood
,
and
like
a
man
bereau●e
of
wit
and
sence
raged
vp
and
downe
the
Wildernes
,
searching
euerie
corner
for
hys
Children
:
but
hys
Lady
remayned
still
in
her
Cabbinet
lamenting
for
their
losse
▪
washing
their
Cradles
with
her
Pearled
teares
that
trickled
downe
her
stayned
chéekes
like
siluer
drops
.
Many
waies
wandred
saint
George
:
sometimes
in
vallies
where
W●lfes
and
Tygers
lurke
:
sometimes
on
mountaine
toppes
where
Lyons
whelpes
doe
sporte
and
play
,
and
many
times
in
dismall
thickets
where
Snakes
and
Serpents
liue
.
Thus
wandred
S.
George
vp
&
downe
the
Wildernes
for
the
space
of
two
dayes
,
hearing
no
newes
of
hys
vnchristened
Children
:
At
last
he
approached
the
sight
of
a
pleasant
Riuer
,
which
smoothlie
glided
downe
betwixt
two
Mountaines
:
into
whose
streames
be
purposed
to
cast
himselfe
,
and
so
by
a
desperate
death
giue
end
to
hys
sorrowes
:
But
as
hee
was
committing
his
bodie
to
the
mercie
of
the
waters
,
and
his
soule
to
the
pleasure
of
the
heauens
,
hee
heard
a
farre
off
the
rufull
s●rike
as
he
thought
of
a
comfortles
Babe
:
which
sodaine
noyse
caused
him
to
refraine
hys
desperate
purpose
,
and
with
more
discreation
tender
his
owne
safetie
:
Then
casting
his
eye
aside
,
it
was
his
happie
destenie
to
spie
the
thrée
inhumane
beastes
lying
at
the
foote
of
the
hill
,
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