Kelby, 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.
C A A P. VI.
WE come next to speak of that magensimous 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 paſſed over in ſilence, where his proweſs gained him the honour 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 unlucky fortune 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 be bethought himſelf of a clear conveyance, which was to the enchanted garden a upon the confines of that country, kept by a famous necromancer, named Ormondine, binding him by the oath of knighthood, to bring him from thence the necromancer's head: all which St. David promiſed faithfully to perform, and, with an undaunted courage, went to the place, where at the entrance in was a rock of ſtone, in which was encloſed a moſt rich ſword, nothing appeared outwardly but the hilt; about the pummel thereof, in letters of gold, was thus engraven:
This ſword cannot be pulled forth,
But by a Knight out of the North,
