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A04555	The most famous history of the seauen champions of Christendome Saint George of England, Saint Dennis of Fraunce, Saint Iames of Spaine, Saint Anthonie of Italie, Saint Andrew of Scotland, Saint Pattricke of Ireland, and Saint Dauid of Wales. Shewing their honorable battailes by sea and land: their tilts, iousts, and turnaments for ladies: their combats vvith giants, monsters, and dragons: their aduentures in forraine nations; their inchauntments in the holie land: their knighthoods, prowesse, and chiualrie, in Europe, Affrica, and Asia, with their victories against the enemies of Christ.; Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome. Part 1	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1596 (1596)	STC 14677; ESTC S109165	135,141	216

the Lady of the woodes boldly stopping in befo●e 〈◊〉 mistrusting the pr●tended pol●icie of S. George 〈…〉 in her owne practises for no sooner entred the the rocke but he stroke his siluer wand thereupon and immediatly it closed where shee bellowed foorth exclamations to the senceles stones without al hope of deliuery Thus this Noble Knight deceaued the wicked Inchant●esse Kalyb and set the other sixe Champions likewise at libertie who rendred him all Knightly curtesies gaue him thankes for their safe deliuerie so storing themselues with all thinges according to their desiers tooke their iournies from the Inchanted groue whose procéeding fortunes and heroicall aduentures shall bee shewed in this Chapter following CHAP. II. Kalybs Lamentation in the Rocke of stone her Will Testament and how shee was torne in peeces by Spirits with other thinges that hapned in the Caue BUT after the departure of the seauen worthy Champions Kalyb seeing her selfe fast closed in the rocke of stone by the pollicie of the English Knight grew into such extreame passion of minde that she cursed the houre of her creation and bitterly b●nned all motions of coniuration the earth she wearied with her cries whereby the verie stones séemd to relent and as it were wept cristall teares sweat with verie anguish of her griefe the blasted Oakes that grewe about the Inchaunted rocke likewise seemde to rue at her exclamations the blustering windes were silent the murmuring of Birds still and a soli●●rie dumbnes tooke possession of euery 〈…〉 within the 〈◊〉 of the woods to heare h●r wofull Lamentation which she vttered in this man●●● O miserable Kalyb accu●sed be thy desteny for 〈◊〉 thou art incl●sed within a desolate darkesome den where neyther sunne can lend thée comfort with his bright beams nor aire extend his breathing coolenes to thy wofull soule for in the déepe foundations of the earth thou art for euermore inclosed I that haue beene the woonder of my time for Magicke I that by Arte haue made my iournie to the déepest dungeons of hell where multitudes of vglie blacke and fearefull spirits hath trembled at my charmes I that haue bound the furies vp in beds of steele and caused them to attend my pleasure like swarmes of hornets that ouerspreads the mountaines in Egipt or the flies vpon the parched hilles where the tawnie tanned Mores doo inhabite am now constrained to languish in eternall darkenes woe to my soule woe to my charmes and woe to all my Magicke spels for they haue bound me in this hollowe rocke pale bee the brightnes of the cleare sunne and couer earth with euerlasting darkenesse skyes turne to pitch the elements to flaming fire ror● hell quake earth swell seas blast earth rockes rend in twaine all creatures mourne at my confusion and sighe at Kalybs wofull and pittifull exclamations Thus wearied she the time away one while accusing Fortune of t●rrany another while bl●ming the falsehood trechery of the English Knight sometimes fearing her curled locks of bris●led haire that like a wreath of s●●kes hung dangling downe her deformed necke then beating her breasts another while rending her ornaments whereby shée séemd more liker ● fury than an earthly creature so impacient was this wicked inchantres Kalyb being ●●u●trate of all hope of recou●ry began a fresh to thund●● forth these tearmes of coniuration C●me c●me you Princes of the elements c●me come and teare this rocke in peeces and let me be inclosed vp in the eternal languishment appea●e you shadowes of blacke missie nigh● Mag●ll C●math Helueza Zontomo Come when I call venite ●estinate inquam At which wordes the earth began t● quake and the verie elements to tremble for all the spirits both of aire of earth of water and of fire were obedient to her charmes and by multitudes cam fl●cking at her call some frō the fire in the likenes of burning Dragons breathing f●om their tearefull nostrels sulphu●e and flaming Brimstone some from the water in shape of Fishes with other d●formed creatures that hath their abiding in the Seas some from the aire the purest of the ellements in the likenes of Angels and other bright shadowes and other some from the grose earth most vglie bl●●ke and dreadfull to behold So when the legions of spirits had incompast the wicked Inchantresse hell began to rore such an infernall and harsh mellodie that the Inchanted rocke burst in twaine and then Kalybs ch●rmes tooke no effect for her Magick no longer indured than the tearme of an hundred yeares the which as then were fullie finished and brought to end for the Obligation which shee subscribed with her dearest blood and sealed with her own hands was brought as a witnes against her by which she knew and fullie perswaded herselfe that her life was fully come to end therefore in this fearefull manner she began to make her Will latest Testament First welcome said shée my sad Executors welcome my graue and euerlasting toombe for you haue di●d● it in the fierie lakes of Phlegethon my winding shéet wherein to shrowde both my body and condemn●d soule is a Calderne of boyling l●●d and brimstone and th● wor●es that should consume my Car●●sse are the fiery forkes which tosse burning fire●●ands from place to place from furnace to furnace and from calderne to calder●● therefore attend to Kalybs wofull testament a●d ingra●e the Legacies she giues in brasse rolles vpon the burning bankes of Acheron First these eyes that now too late wéepe helples teares I giue vnto the watrie spirits for they haue rakt the treasures hidden in déepest Seas to satisfie their most insatiate lookes next I bequeath th●se hands which did subscribe the bloody Obligation of my perpetuall banishment from ioy vnto those spirits that houer in the Aire my tongue that did con●pire against the Maiestie of Heauen I giue to those spirits which haue their b●●ing in the fire my earthly hart I bequeath to those gr●ce Daemons that dwell in the ●ungeons of the earth and the rest of m● condemned body to the torments due to my deseruings which straunge and fearefull Testament being no sooner ended but all the spirits generally at one instance ceazed vpon the Inchantresse and dismembred her bodie to a thousand peeces and deuided her limbes to the corners of the earth one member to the Aire another to the water another to the fire and another to the earth which was carried away in a moment by the spirits that departed with such a horror that all things within the hearing thereof sodainely died both Beastes Byrds and all creeping wormes which remayned within the compasse of those inchanted woodes for the trées which before was wont to flourish with greene leaues withered away and died the blades of grasse perished for want of naturall moysture which the watrie cloude denied to nourish in s● wicked a place Thus by the iudgments of the heauens sensles things p●rished for the wickednes of Kalyb whom wée leaue to hir endles torments both of body and

her ●allying pastime with his haire could bring him a sléepe she strained forth the Organs of her voice and ouer his heade song this wofull Dittie Thou God of sleepe and golden dreames appeare That bringst all things to peace and quiet rest Close vp the glasses of his eies so cleare Thereby to make my fortune euer blest His eies his hart his senses and his minde In peacefull sleep let them some comfort finde Sing sweet you prettie birdes in top of Skyes With warbling t●nes and many a pleasant note Till your sweet Musicke close his watchfull eies That on my loue with vaine desires doth dote Sleepe on my deare sleepe on my loues delight And l●t this sleepe be thy eternall night You gentle Bees the Muses louelie birdes Come aide my dolefull tunes with siluer sound Let your inspiring melodie recorde Such heauenlie musicke that may q●ite confounde Both wit and sence and tier his eies with sleepe Tha● on my lap in sweet content I keepe You siluer streames which murmuring musicke makes A●d filles each dale with pleasant Harmonie Where at the floting fish much pleasure takes To heare their sweet recording melodie Assist my tunes his slumbring eyes to close That on my lap now takes a sweet repose Let whispering windes in euerie sensles tree A solemne sad and dolefull Musicke sing From hilles and dales and from each mountaine ●ie Let some inspiring sound or eccho ring That he may neuer more awake againe Which sought my marriage bed with lust to staine This delightfull song rocked hys sences to such a careles and heauie slumber that ●e slept as soundly vpon her lappe as if he had béene couched in the softest bed of downe whereby she found a fit opportunitie to 〈◊〉 her vndefiled body from his lustfull desires So taking the Poyniard in her hand which he had cast a little aside and gazing thereon with an irefull looke she made this sad complaint Graunt you immortall powers of heauen said she that of these two extreames I choose the best either must I yeeld my body to bée dishonored by his vnchast desires or staine my handes with the trickling streames of his heart blood If I yéeld vnto the first I shall be then accounted for a viscious Dame in euerie place but if I commit the last I shall be guiltie of a wilfull murder and for the fame the law will adiudge me to a shamefull death What shall I feare to die and loose my vertue and renowne No my heart shall bée as tyrranous as Danaus Daughters that slewe their fiftie husbands in a night or as Medeas crueltie which scattered her brothers bloodie ioynts vpon the sea shore therby to hinder the swift pursute of her father when Iason got the golden Fléece from Calcos Ile Therefore stand still you glistring Lampes of heauen stay wandring time and let him sléepe eternally Where art thou sad Melpomene that speakst of nothing but of murthers and Tragedies Where be those Dames that euermore delights in blood Come come assist me with your cruelties let me excéede the hate of Progne for her rauishment rage hart and take delight in blood banish all thoughts of pitty from thy breast be thou as mercilesse as King Priams Quéene that in reuenge of fiue and twenty murthred sonnes with her owne hands staynd the pauements of Agamemnons Court with purple gore these words being no sooner ended but with wrathfull and pale countenance she sheathed the Poyniard vp to the hilts in the closure of his breast whereat he started and woulde haue got vpon his féete but the streame of blood so violently gushed from his wound that hee declined immediatly to the earth and his soule was forced to giue the world a dolefull adue But when Sabra behold the bedde of violets stainde with blood and euery flower conuerted to a crimson colour shée sighed grieuously but when she saw her garments all to be sprinckled with her enemies blood and he lay wallowing at her féete in purple go●e she ran spéedily vnto a flowing fountaine that stoode on the further side of the Orchard and began to wash the blood out of her clothes but the more shee washed the more it increased a signe that heauen will neuer suffer wilfull murder to be hid for what cause soeuer it is done This straunge spectakle or rather wonderfull accident so amazed the sorrowfull Lady that shee began a newe to complaine O that this wicked murther neuer had bin done said shée or that my hand had béene stroken lame by some vnluckie Plannet when first it did attempt the déede whether shall I flie to shrowde me from the company of vertuous women which will for euermore shun me as a detested murtherer If I should goe into some forraine Countrie there heauen will cast downe vengeance for my guilt If I should hide my selfe in woods and solitarie wildernesses yet would the winde discouer me and blow this bloody crime to euery corner of the world or if I should goe liue in Caues or darkesome Dennes within the déepe foundation of the earth yet will his Ghost pursue me there and haunt mee day and night so that in no place a murtherer can liue in rest such discontented thoughts shall still oppresse his mind After shée had breathed forth this comfortles lamentation to the aire she tore her blood stayned Garment from her backe and cast it into the fountaine where it turned the water into the colour of blood so heynous is murther in the sight of heauen Thus béeing disrobed into her Petticote she returned to the slaughtered Earle whome shee founde couered with mosse which added more griefe vnto her sorrowfull soule for she greatlie feared her murther was discried but it fell not out as she mustrusted for it is the nature and kind of a Robbin Red-brest and other birdes alwaies to couer the bodie of any dead man and them it was that br●d this feare in the Ladies heart by this time the day began to shut vp his bright windowes and sable night entred to take possession of the earth yet durst not the wofull and distressed Sabra make her repaire homewards lest she should bee discried without her vpper garment During which time there was a generall search made for the Earle by his seruauntes for they greatly suspected some daunger had befallen him considering that they heard him the night before so wofullie complaine in his Chamber At last with Torch light they came to the Orchard gate which they presently burst open wherein no sooner entring but they found their murthered Master lying by a bed of violets couered with mosse likewise searching to find out the murtherer At last they espied Sabra in her naked Petticote her handes face besprinckled with blood her countenance as pale as ashes by which signes they suspected her to be the bloody bereauer of their Lord Masters life therefore because she descended from a noble linnage they brought her the same night before the King which did then keepe

by Inchauntment aides the Soldan in hys Warres against the Christians hee left the guarding of the same to a mightie and tyrrible Gyant In shape the vgliest monster that euer eye beheld or ●are heard tell For hee is thirtie f●●te in length his head three times larger than the head of an Oxe his eyes bigger than two pewter dishes and hys téeth standing out of hys mouth more than a foote wherewith he will breake both Iron and Stéele his armes big and long without any measure and all his bodie as blacke as any coale and as hard as brasse Also of such a strength that he is able to carrie awaie at once thrée Knights Armed and he neuer eateth any other meat but raw flesh of mankinde he is so light and swift that a horse cannot run from him and oftentimes hee hath béene assayed with great Troups of Armed men but all of them could ne●er doe him any harme neyther with sword speare crosbow nor any other weapon Thus haue you heard most noble and curteous Knight the true discourse of my vtter r●ine and the vengeance shewed vppon my Countrie by this wicked Nigromancer for which I haue remayned euer since in this Pauilion amongst my maydes where wee pray both day and night that some vnhappie fortune or tyrrible vengeance may fall vpon this wicked Coniurer Now as I am true English Knight replied S. George no sooner shall the morninges Sunne appeare but I wil take my iournie to that inchaunted Tower in to which Ile enter in despite of the Gyant and breake the Inchantment or make my graue within the Monsters bowelles which if I happely perfourme then will I trauaile into Persia and feltes vp the most wicked and damned Nigtomancer and like a blood hound lead him vp and downe the world in Chaynes Most dangerous is the aduenture quoth the Amazonian Quéene from whence as yet did neuer Knight returne But if thou be so resolute and Noble minded as to attempt the enterprise then happie bee your fortune And knowe braue Knight that this tower lieth westward from hence some thréescore miles and thereupon shée tooke him by the hand and caused Sabra likewise to alight from her Palfray and led them both into her Pauilion where they were feasted most royally and for that night slept securely But when the dayes bright windowes opened and the Morning Sunne began to glister in all the haste saint George that valiant minded Champion arose from his swéet content and Armed him selfe where after hee had taken hys leaue of the Quéene and gaue her thankes for hys curteous entertainement and also taken hys leaue of Sabra whome he left in companie of the Quéenes maides till hys returne with conquest and so rode foorth till it was Noone and then he entred into a déepe Ualley and euer hee rode lower and lower It was then a faire day and the Sun shined cleare but by that time he had ridden two miles and a halfe he had lost both the light of the Sunne and also the sight of heauen for it was there as darke as night more dismall than the déepest dungeon At last he found a mighty riuer with streames as blacke as pitch and the bankes were so high that the water coulde scarce bee séene running vnderneath and it was so full of Serpents that none could enter amongst them that euer returned backe with life Abou● his heade flewe monstrous byrds and diuers Griffons who were able to beare away an Armed Knight horse and all and were in as great multitudes as though they had béene Starlings Also there were flyes as bigge as nuts and as blacke as pitch which s●ung him and his horse so grieuously that there issued downe such store of bloode that it changed his horse from a sable to a crimson colour likewise the Griffons strook at saint George with theyr talents so furiously that had not hee defended himselfe with his shield which couered his whole body hée had béene pierced to the hart In this dangerous manner rode he on till he came to the gates of the inchaunted Tower where as the Gyant sate in his yron coate vpon a blocke with a mace of steele in his hand who at the first sight of saint George beate his téeth so mightely together that they rung like the strokes of an Anuile and ran raging like a Fiende of hell thinking to haue taken the Champion horse and all in his long téeth that were as sharpe as stéele and to haue borne them presently into the Tower But when saint George perceiued his mouth open he tooke his sword and thrust therein so far that it made the Gyant to roare so lowd that the Elements séemed to thunder and the earth to tremble his mouth smoakt like a fiery Furnace and his eyes rowled in his head lik● brands of flaming fier the wounde was so great and the blood issued so fast from the Gyants mouth that his courage began to quayle and against his will he was forced to yéeld to the Champions mercy and to beg for life to which saint George agreed but vppon condition that the Gyant would discouer all the secrets of the Tower and euer after ●e sworne his true seruant and to attend on him with all dilligence To which the Giant swore by hys own soule neuer to leaue him in extreamitie to answere him truely to all questions whatsoeuer Then saint George demaunded the cause of the darkenes and how it might be ceased to which the Gyant answered in this manner There was within this Countrie about some twelue yeares since a cunning Nigromancer that by Inchauntment built this Tower the which you nowe beheld and therein caused a tyrrible fire to spring from the earth that cast such a smoake ouer the whole land whereby the people that were wont to dwell therein are fled and famished for hunger Also this Inch●unter by his Arte made the Riuer that you haue passed the which did neuer man before this time without death Also within the T●wer nere vnto the fire there standes a faire and plentifull fountaine to which if euer any Knight be able to attaine and cast the water thereof into the fire then shall the darkenes euer after cease and the Inchantment end for which cause I haue béene bound to guard and kéepe this Tower from the atchiuement of any Knight Thus when the Giant had ended hys discourse saint George commaunded him to remaine at the Gat● for hee would aduenture to end the Inchauntment and deliuer the Countrie from so grieuous a plague Then went hee close by the windowes of the Tower the which were sixteene speares in length and breadth til he came to a little wicket through which hee must néedes enter yet was it set as thicke with pickes of stéele as the pricks of an Urchens skinne to the intent that no Knight should approach neare vnto the dore nor once attempt to enter the Tower yet with great danger he opened the wicket whereout came

such abundance of smoake that the darkenes of the countrie doubled so that neyther Torch nor Candle woulde burne in any place yet neuertheles saint George entred and went downewardes vpon stayers where hee could sée nothing but yet felt so many great blowes vpon his Burgonet that he was constrayned to knéele vpon his knées with his shield to defend himselfe or els he had beene brused to peeces At last hee came to the bottome and there hee found a faier great vault where he felt so tyrrible a heate that he sweat excéedingly and as he felt about him hee perceaued that he approached néere the fire and going a little further he espied out the Fountaine whereat hee greatlie reioyced and so he tooke his shield and bore therein as much water as he could and cast it into the fire In conclusion labouring so long till the fire was cleane quenched then began the skyes to receaue their perfect lightnes and the golden Sunne to shine most clearelie about him whereby hee plainely perceaued how there stoode vppon the stayers many great Images of Brasse holding in their handes mightie Maces of stéele the which had done him much trouble at his comming downe but then their power was ended the fire quenched and the Inchauntment finished Thus when saint George through hys inuincible fortitude had performed this dangerous aduenture hee grew wearie of trauaile what with heate and sweating and the mightie blowes he receaued from the Br●zen Images that he returned againe to the little wicket whereas the deformed Gyant still remayned who when he beheld the Champion returne both safe and sound hee fell vppon hys knée before him and said Sir Knight you are most welcome and happilie returned for you are the flower of Chiualrie and the brauest Champion in the world Commaund my seruice dutie and obedience for whilst I liue I doe protest by the burning Banckes of Acharon neuer to follow any Knight but you and thereupon I kisse your golden spurre which is the Noble badge of Knighthood This humble submission of the Gyant caused the Champion to reioyce not for his ouerthrow but that he had gotten so mighty a seruant then vnlaced he his Helmet and laie downe after hys wearie Encounter where after hee had sufficiently rested himselfe he tooke his iournie in companie of the Gyant to the Amazonian Quéene where he left hys Lady in companie of her virgins who like a kinde modest and vertuous wife during all the time of her husbands absence continually praied to the immortal powers of heauen for his fortunate successe and happy returne otherwise resoluing her selfe if the lowring destenies should crosse hys intent and vnluckilie end his dayes before the aduenture were accomplished then to spende the remnant of her life amongst th●se happie virgins But on the sodaine before the Queene and her virgins were a ware S. George ariued before the Pauillion dutifully attended on by the Giant who bore vpon his shoulder the body of a tal Oake by which the Quéene knewe that his prowesse had redéemed her country from darkenes and deliuered her from sorrow care and trouble so in companie of he● maides very gorgeously atired she conducted the Champion to a bower of Roses intermingled with créeping vines the which in his absence they had planted for hys Ladies delight there found he Sabra at her diuine prayers like a solitarie Widdow clad in mourning habilliments but when shee beheld her Lord returne in saftie she banished griefe in al haste ran vnto him in his bosome rauished her selfe with pleasure But to speake how the Amazonian Queene feasted them and in what maner shée and her Maides deuised pastimes for their contents were too tedious to repeate but when night gaue end to their pleasures sléep summoned all things to a quiet silence the Queene brought them to a very sumptuous lodging wherein stood a bed framed with Ebon wood ouerhung with manye pendants of gold the Tik● was stuft with Downe of Turtle-Doue the shéetes of Maedian silke thereon lay a rich quilt wrought with cotten couered with dammaske and sticht with threds of gold The Quéene bestowed on saint George at hys going to bed an imbrothered shirt curiouslie wrought with many rare deuises as the labors of Hercules the triumphs of Mars the loues of many Potentates wrought in such curious manner as though Arte her selfe had béene the contri●er Sabra at her going to bed was likewise presented by the Quéenes maidens with a light Kirtle of chaungable ●iolet somewhat blushing on a red colour Also they put a white Kerchiefe of silke vpon her head somewhat lose and vntied so that vnder the same her Iuorie throat might be easilie seene and her faire golden haire flying about her necke ouer them was cast a mantle of gréene silke which made the bed seeme more beautifull than Floraes richest ornament By them the Quéene and her virgins fate makeing sweete musicke vpon their siluer tuned Lutes till golden sléepe had closed vp their eyes The which béeing done the Quéene with her Ladies departed likewise to their naturall restes But all this while the Giant neuer entered the Pauilion but slept as soundly vnder the roote of a Pin● trée as saint George did in his imbrothered bed for he knew not what pleasures belonged thereunto nor neuer before that time behelde any womans face At last the night withdrew her blacke Curtens and gaue the morning leaue to appeare whose fearefull light caused saint George to forsake hys bed and to walke some few miles to ouerview the Countrie In which iournie hée tooke such excéeding pleasure that hee thought it the goodliest Realme that euer hee saw for he perceiued well how that it was full of worldlie wealth At last hee climbed vp to the toppe of a high Mountaine béeing some two miles from the Queenes Pauilion whereon he stood and beheld many stately Townes and Towers high and mightie Castels many large woods meadowes and manie pleasant Riuers and about the Townes faire Uines goodlie Pastures and fields At last he behelde the Cittie of Argenia shining against the Sun the place where the Quéene in former time was wont to keepe her Court which Cittie was inuironed with déepe Ditches the wals strongly builded more than fiue hundred Towers made of lime and stone also he saw many faire Churches couered with Lead hauing toppes and fyiers of gold shining most gorgeously with weather Cockes of siluer glistring against the Sun also he saw the Burgesses houses stande like Pallaces closed with high and strong walles barred with chaines of Iron from house to house whereat in his hart he praised much the Noblenes and richnes of the Cittie and saide to himselfe that it might well be called Argenia for it séemed to be of Argent that is as much to say of siluer During the time of the Champions pleasurable walke which continued from the breake of day to the closing of the euening behapned a wofull Tragedie nere vnto