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 St. David verily imagining himelf to be that knight of the north, couragiouly aayed to pull it forth but no ooner was his hand on the hilt, but his enes were oppret with a omniferous leep, that it was impoible for him to awake till the inchantment was finihed, which afterwards was performed by St. George whoe exploits we now come to relate.

Seven times had the world's bright eye run his annual coure thro' the twelve signs of the Zodiac, ince St. George was confined in that naty Perian prion by the treachery of the king of Morocco, when by chance tumbling upon a bar of iron, he made uch ue of it, that with continual labour he digged himelf passage thro' the ground; till, in the dead time of the night, he acended jut in the middle of the Sultan court: time and place thus favouring his deigns, he ceaed not to lend his aiting arms, to work out the ret: for, hearing ome grooms in the Sultan's table preparing their hores to go on hunting the next day he took the bar of iron and killed them all: which being done, he took the tronget gelding, and richest comparions, wherewith he bravely furnihed himelf, then, with chalk upon a black marble pillar, he thus wrote

So etting forward towards the gate, he thus salutes the porter, 'Porter, open the gates with peed for George of England is ecaped out of prion, and hath murdered all the Sultan's grooms, which has alarmed the whole court.' The porter, ignorant of what had happened, opened the gate for St. George who, with a nimble pace, never reted till he came within the confines of Greece, beyond the reach of the Perian horemen, who in vain purued after. But now hunger again oppreed him as harp as imprionment did before, o that everal days his hore and he fared alike, being forced to eat the gras of the field