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 fine music: he thinking they were Goddesses, began to worship them; whereupon he heard a voice saying,

Then they gave him a sword and lance, saying, They should preserve his life in the utmost danger; and named him the Knight of the Oracle. They then conveyed him to the enchanted castle, where seeing Philotheta, he winded the horn, which angered many Knights who were waiting there, each claiming the lady as his prize. On this Montellion, whom we shall now call the Knight of the Oracle, unhorsed them one after the other: after which he cast lots with them who should first attempt the lady’s rescue, and his fell out to be the last.—The rest being defeated, some taken prisoners, and some thrown into the moat,