of Wales awaked out of his sleep, where he had lain for ſeven years. The necromancer after he had briefly declared his forepaſt life to St George, gave a moſt terrible groan and died; whoſe head, with the enchanted ſword, the Engliſh Champion gave to St. David, to carry to the Tartarian court, according to his promiſe, whilſt he himſelf travelled towards Barbary, where our muſe will now attend him.
C H A P. VII.
THE noble St. George having, after many weary ſteps got to the kingdom of Barbary, he thought it vain to attempt upon Almidor by force of arms, seeing he was attended by ſo many worthy knights and yet deſiring above all things, to have a ſight of his beloved Sabrine, for whoſe ſake he had endured ſo long impriſonment; therefore he reſolved to patch out the lion's ſkin with the fox's tail, and gain by policy what he could not gain by force; to this end he exchanged his horſe, armour and furniture with a palmer for his gown, ſtaff and ſcrip, and ſo accoutred went directly to the court, where he beheld a number of palmers, waiting in the gate for alms, which the queen herſelf in perſon daily beſtowed, in remembrance of the English champion; in diſtributing of which, when ſhe eſpied this ſtrange palmer, remembering how he reſembled the princely countenance of St. George, she took him by the hand and led him aſide from all the company, where he ſoon made himſelf known to her, who wept for joy of finding him whom ſhe never expected to ſee again, and after ſome ſhort diſcourſe of her health and welfare, ſhe related to him how her father had forced her to marry Almidor againſt her will, but tho' outwardly ſhe was linked to him, yet none but St.
