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 reolution we will leave them for a while, to relate what happened in the army of the Pagans, who, like grahoppers overpreading a country, met in the land of Hungary, in uch multitudes that had not God frustrated their intentions, the Chritian army had been but a morel, carce ufficient for them for one meal; by his invincible power, he confounded them in their own practices; for being about to elect a general, each nation was obtinate to have their king the peron, that hould command in chief; and o eager were they in thee reolutions, that from words they fell to blows, which ended at lat in a mot dreadful fight againt each other, till the ground was changed from a verdant green to a purple hue, and each place trewed with the carcaes of dead bodies. Here you might ee a head new lopt off from the houlders, with a gaping mouth, complaining as it were for his eparation from the rest of its body: there lay an arm with a hand graping a word, as if it would fight yet in its body's defence. In another place you might behold one who Could run away from danger, but that his legs are o tangled in his fellows guts he could not tir; here lay the brains of one, there another with his mouth and jaws cut away, o that he could not complain of his own misfortunes. In ine, uch horror and detruction grows amongt them, as would make the heart of an enemy to relent. Thoe that remained, after this bloody encounter, withdrew themelves into their own countries, curing the time that ever they undertook o unlucky an enterprize, and confeing it was vain for them to attempt any thing againt the Chritian's God.

It was not long ere the news of this bloody encounter came to the ears of St. George, and the ret of the Chritian Champions; who having received the intelligence, oon raied their armies and marched distantly to Barbary, againt the bloody king of Morocco, to chatie his treachery committed againt the mot renowned Englih Champion.