Chap-books of the eighteenth century . withoutwymmen and chyldren / And the kyng dyd doo make achirche there of our lady and of saynt George / In the whicheyet sourdeth a founteyn of lyuynge water whiche heleth seekpeple that drynke therof / After this the kyng offred to Saintgeorge as moche money as there myght be nombred / but herefused alle and commaunded that it shold be gyuen to pourepeple for goddes sake / and enioyned the kynge iiij thynges /that is / that he shold haue charge of the Chyrches / and thathe shold honoure the preestes / and here theyr seruycedylygently / and that he shold
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . withoutwymmen and chyldren / And the kyng dyd doo make achirche there of our lady and of saynt George / In the whicheyet sourdeth a founteyn of lyuynge water whiche heleth seekpeple that drynke therof / After this the kyng offred to Saintgeorge as moche money as there myght be nombred / but herefused alle and commaunded that it shold be gyuen to pourepeple for goddes sake / and enioyned the kynge iiij thynges /that is / that he shold haue charge of the Chyrches / and thathe shold honoure the preestes / and here theyr seruycedylygently / and that he shold haue pite on the poure peple /And after kyssed the kyng and departed / The Chap-book version is far more marvellous, and is, asthe reader will note, strangely similar, in some places, to theromance of Sir Bevis. Coventry, not Cappadocia, is made his birth-place; hisfather was a renowned peer named Lord Albert, and hismother was the Kings daughter, who before St. Georges birthdreamed her child would be a dragon. So Lord Albert went to. The Life and Death of St. George. 167 consult the enchantress Kalyb, which he did by blowing atrumpet at the entrance of her cave, when a voice replied thathis son should be as fierce as a dragon in deeds of mother died in childbirth, and St. George was stolen in hisinfancy by Kalyb, which so grieved Lord Albert that he grew very fond of the boy, and in a moment of con-fidence she showed him the brazen castle where the other sixchampions of Christendom were confined, and made him apresent of some invincible armour. She also lent him her
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