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 great Blanderon, and how he was departed with the lady Rosalinda, he secretly stole away from the Thracian King, to seek St. Anthony, whom he greatly longed to see; and the King's daughters, understanding he was gone, travelled after him, whose sudden departure caused great sorrow throughout all Thrace.

The six ladies, having travelled many a weary mile, in a fruitless search after St. Andrew, came at last to an uninhabited wilderness, save only with beasts and savage monsters, where they were surprised with thirty bloody satyrs, that hauled them by the hair of their heads, regardless of their shouts and loud sounding outcries, intending to have ravished them of their virgin honours, but Heaven (that always favours the virtuous) had so ordered it, that St. Patrick, that magnanimous Irish Champion, after many heroic actions by him performed, was, at the same instant, also in the desart place, who, beholding the inhumanity of those savage creatures, courageously set upon them, and put them to flight, delivering thereby those most excellent princesses from death, or what they accounted worse than death, the spoiling of their virginities, who, after some pause of time, being a little come to themselves, related to St. Patrick the occasion of their journey, with an account of the atchievements both of St. Anthony and St. Andrew, as you heard before in the beginning of this chapter; St. Patrick comforted them the best he could; like a noble knight undertook to be their conductor in their undertakings, having himself a mind to behold those magnanimous Knights who formerly had been his companions in the cave of Kalby; in which journeys we will for a while leave them till we relate the actions of the seventh and last Champion, St. David of Wales.