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 George enjoyed her heart, for whoe love he had hitherto continued a pure virgin, by virtue of a golden chain teeped in tyger's blood, which he wore even times doubled about her neck. Then delivered he to him, his hore and word with which he had formerly encountered the burning dragon. And now, my George, quoth he, nothing remains but to free me from the power of my forced huband, which opportunity invites us unto; he having with the whole court rode out a hunting. St. George willingly condecended to her motion, ealing the ame with as weet a kis as ever Leander betowed on Hero; and having gotten the good will of an eunuch to go along with them, toring themelves with proviions, being gallantly mounted, they poted away with all the peed they could make, paing through divers woods, dearts and unknown places, to ecape the puruit of thoe whom the black-moor king would end after them.

Having travelled thus for ome few days together, at lat the beautiful Sabrine began to faint with hunger, which made St. George to leave her under the hade of a broad preading oak, accompanied with the eunuch, while he went out in puruit of ome prey, to atisfy their craving appetite; o it was his fortune to kill a deer, which, having cut out with his keen edged word, he brought a haunch thereof along with him, to preent to his beloved lady; but, a ad accident happened in his abence, for two hungry lions raging about for prey, came directly to the oaken tree, where thee two weary travellers were repoing themelves. who with angry mood, eized upon the eunuch, and oon buried him in their hungry entrails, then they tore his teed in pieces. Sabrine all the while beholding it, expected herelf to be the next morel to allay their hunger; but, quite foreign to her expectation, with fawning getures they came unto her, and laid their heads in her tender lap, and there quietly fell fat aleep, at which time St. George returned, who,