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Rh inviolable. Therefore, divine Paragon, nature’ wonder, and loves abstract, doubt not, but thy fame shall resound for love and chastity, so far as Phoebus darts his golden rays.

Then dressed he the venison for her which he had brought, and having refreshed themselves, they set forward on their wonted travels, till they came into the country of Greece, where they soon had news of great tilts and tournaments suddenly to be held at the Emperor’s court, in honour of his royal nuptials with the Emperor of China’s daughter; the same whereof had summoned hither all the most approved and magnanimous heroes, both in Europe, Asia, and Africa, to try their man-hood, and, by noble exercises of arms, to mount up into honour’s throne, among the rest, the seven Champions of Christendom arrived there unknown to each other, of whose valiant acts, to their country’s honour, we come now to declare.

Nfinite was the number of the knights assembled in the Grecian court, to adventure their chance in fortune’s lottery for the purchasing of renown, but the seven Champions attained to such favour with the Grecian Emperor, that he appointed them to be his own peculiar Champions against all comers, each his several day, seven days together, the appointed time for holding the justs. To relate all their several adventures, how they foiled each one that came against them, would take too much time for our intended brevity; let it suffice to know, that their prowess was so highly admired by the Emperor, as (in reward of their valour)