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C H A P. VI. How St. David, the Champion of Wale's, by art of magic, slept seven years in the enchanted of Ormondine the Necromancer; and how St. George escaped out of prison in Persia, and redeemed the Champion of Wales from his enchantment. E come next to speak of that magnanimous Hero, St David of Wales, whose valiant exploits and heroic performances were nothing inferior to the rest of the six Champions, making the name of Christendom famous in those nations, that acknowledge the true God: especially his actions in the Tartarian court, are not to be p ssed over in silence, where his prowess

gained him the hdnour to become the Emperor’s Champion. But, upon a solemn feast day, whereupon were kept royal tilts and tournaments in honour of the Emperor’s- birth, it was St. David’s unluckyfortune to kill the count Palatine, being heir apparent to the Tartarian crown at which the Emperor was so incensed that he would have slain him presently, but that in honour he could not do it: Whereupon he bethought himself of a clear conveyance, which was to the enchanted garden upon the confines of that country, kept by a famous necromancer, named Ormond ne, binding him by the oath of knighthood, to bring him from thence the necromancer’s head: all which St- Davin promised faithfully to perform, and, with an undaunted courage, went to the place, where at 'he entrance in was a rock of stone, in which was enclosed a most rich sword, nothing appeared ourwarOly but the hilt; about the pummel thereof, in letters of gold;,was thus engraved: This sword cannot be pulled forth, But by a Knight out of the North. St,David verily imagining himself to be th-tt knight of the north, courageously assayed to pull it forth; but no sooner was his hand on the hilt, but his senses