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 Kelby, in which journeys we will for a while leave them till we relate the actions of the eventh and lat Champion, St. David of Wales.

E come next to speak of that magensimous Hero, St. David of Wales, whoe valiant exploits and heroic performances were nothing inferior to the ret of the ix Champions, making the name of Chritendom famous in thoe nations that acknowledge the true God: epecially his actions in the Tartarian court, are not to be paed over in ilence, where his prowes gained him the honour to become the Emperor's Champion. But, upon a olemn feat day, whereupon were kept royal tilts and tournaments in honour of the Emperor's birth, it was St. David's unlucky fortune to kill the count Palatine, being heir apparent to the Tartarian crown, at which the Emperor was o incened that he would have lain him preently, but that in honour he could not do it: Whereupon be bethought himelf of a clear conveyance, which was to the enchanted garden a upon the confines of that country, kept by a famous necromancer, named Ormondine, binding him by the oath of knighthood, to bring him from thence the necromancer's head: all which St. David promied faithfully to perform, and, with an undaunted courage, went to the place, where at the entrance in was a rock of tone, in which was encloed a mot rich word, nothing appeared outwardly but the hilt; about the pummel thereof, in letters of gold, was thus engraven: