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 the caue of his great idolatry, St. Andrew, like a true Chritian Champion, taught him the worhip of the living God; which, when they had rightly performed, on a udden the milk white wans were changed into the hape of beautiful ladies, to the great joy of all preent: For St. Andrew, having knowledge it was St. Anthony that had lain the great Blanderon, and how he was departed with the lady Roalinda, he ecretly tole away from the Thracian King, to eek St. Anthony whom he greatly longed to ee, and the King's Daughters undertanding he was gone, travelled after him, whoe udden departure caued great orrow throughout all Thrace.

The ix ladies having travelled many a weary mile, in a fruitles earch after St. Andrew, came at last to an uninhabited wildernes, ave only with beasts and avage monters, where they were urprized by thirty bloody atyrs, that hauled them by the hair of the heads, regardles of their houts and loud ounding outcries, intending to have ravihed them of their virgin honours, but heaven (that always favours the virtuous) had o ordered it, that St. Patrick, that magnanimous Irih Champion, after many heroic actions by him performed, was, at the ame instant, alo in the deart place, who beholding the inhumanity of thoe avage creatures couragiouly et upon them and put them to flight, delivering thereby thoe mot excellent princees from death, or what they accounted wore than death, the poiling of their virginities, who after ome paue of time, being a little come to themelves, related to St. Patrick the occiion of their journey, with an account of the achievements both of St. Anthony and St. Andrew, as you heard before in the beginning of this chapter, St. Patrick comforted them the bet he could; like a noble knight undertook to be their conductor in their undertakings, having himelf a mind to behold thoe magnanimous Knights who formerly had been his companions in the case of