An excellent ballad of St. George and the dragon This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B22730 of text T33697 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 7KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B22730 Wing E3792B 99834268

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 eng eebo An excellent ballad of St. George and the dragon n/a 1750 2 887 6 0 0 0 0 0 67.64 D The rate of 67.64 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-09 Sampled and proofread 2014-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An Excellent BALLAD of St. GEORGE and the DRAGON .
depiction of St George slaying dragon
WHY should we boast Of Arthur and his Knights , Knowing how many Men , Have performed Fights ? Or why should we speak Of Sir Lancelot du Lake , Or Sir Tristrum du Leon , That fought for Ladies Sake ? Read but old Stories , And there you shall see , ●ow St. George , St. George . He made the Dragon flee . St. George he was for England , St Dennis was for France , Sing , Honi soit qui Mally Pense . To speak of Monarchs , It were too long to tell , And likewise to the Romans , How far they did excel : Vanni●al and Scipio , 〈◇〉 many a Field did fight ; Orlando Furioso , He was a valiant Knight , Romulus and Rhemus , Were those that Rome did build ; But St. George , St. George , The Dagon he hath kill'd , St. George he was for England , &c. Jepthah and Gideon , They led their Men to fight , The Gibbionites and Ammonites , They put them all to Flight : Hercules his Labour , Was in the Vale of Bass , And Sampson slew a Thousand , With the Jaw-bone of an Ass. And when he was blind , Pull'd the Temple ro the Ground ; But St. George , St G●orge , The Dragon did confound . St. George he was for England , St. Dennis was for France , &c. Valentine and Orson , They came of Pepin's Blood ; Alfred and Aldricus , They were brave Knights and good : The four Sons of Ammon , That fought with Charlemain , Sir Hugh de Bourdeaux , And Godfrey de Bullogin ; These were all French Knights , The Pagans to convert ; But St. George , St. George , He pull'd out the Dragon's Heart . St. George he was for England , &c. King Henry the Fifth , He conquered all France , He quartered their Arms , His Honour to advance : He rais'd their Walls , And pull'd their Cities down , And he garnish'd his Head With a double tripple Crown : He thumped the French , And after Home he came ; But St George , St. George , He made the Dragon tame . St. George he was for England , &c. St. David you know Loved Leeks and toasted Cheese , And Jason was the Man Brought Home the Golden Fleece ; And Patrick you know , He was St. George's Boy ; Seven Years he kept his Horse , Then stole him away : For which knavish Act A Slave he doth remain ; But St. George , St. George . He hath the Dragon slain . St. George he was for England , &c. Tamerlane the Emperor , In Iron Cage did Crown , With all his bloody Flags Display'd before the Town : Scanderberg Magnanimous , Mahomet s Bashaws did dread : Whose victorious Bones Were worn when he was dead : His Beglerbegs his Corn like dreads , George Castriot was he call'd ; But St. George , St. George , The Dragon he hath maul'd . St. George he was for England , &c. Ottoman the Tarter , He came of Persia's Race ; The great Mogul with's Chest , So full of Cloves and Mace : The Grecian Youth Bucephalous , He manfully did bestride : But these with their Worthies Nine , St. George did them betide . Gustavus Adolphus , Was Swedeland's Warlike King ; But St. George , St. George , He pull'd forth the Dragon's Sting , St. George he was for England , &c. Poldragon and Cadwallader , Of British Blood do boast ; Tho' John of Gaunt his Foes did daunt , St. George shall rule the Roast : Agamemnon and Clemedcn , And Macedon did Feast , But compared to our Champion , They are but meer Cheats ▪ Brave Malta Knights in Turkish Flights , Their brandish'd Swords out-drew , But St. George met the Dragon , And run him through and through ▪ St. George he was for England , &c. Bida the Amazon , Poetus overthrew , As fierce as either Vandal , Goth , Saracen or Jew : The potent Holofernes , As he lay in his Bed , In came his Wife Judith , And subtiley stole his Head : Brave Cyclops stout , with Jove he fought Tho' he shower'd down Thunder ; But St. George kill'd the Dragon , And was not that a Wonder ; St. George he was for England , &c. Mark Anthony , I 'll warrant you , Play'd Feats with Egypt's Queen ; Sir Elamore , that valiant Knight , The like was never seen . Grim Gorgon's Might was know in Fight , Old Bevis most Men frighted ; The Mermidons and Prester Johns , Why were not these Men knighted ? Brave Spinola took in Breda , Nassau did it recover ; But St. George , St. George , Turn'd the Dragon over and over , St. George he was for England , &c.