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Howe the tyrant dacyan kyndlyd with yre causyd the inchauntoure to be behedyd: And prepared a Whele with iren teth of maruaylous sharpenes / on the same to tourment saynt George: and how by power of god the whele was destroyed. Capitulum. xxii.
The iudge enragyd / through malyce yre and payne
And as whan a shyp / is vexyd in the wynde
The shypmen labour / with all theyr myght / & brayne
Some porte of socoure / and quyetnes to fynde
In lyke wyse the iudge / reuoluyd in his mynde
By what maner crafte / he myght / the knyght ouercom
His mynde was doutfull / nat trustynge his wysdom
And as whan a shyp / is vexyd in the wynde
The shypmen labour / with all theyr myght / & brayne
Some porte of socoure / and quyetnes to fynde
In lyke wyse the iudge / reuoluyd in his mynde
By what maner crafte / he myght / the knyght ouercom
His mynde was doutfull / nat trustynge his wysdom
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Hys mynde concludyd / at last on cruelte
Agayne to pryson commaundyd he the knyght
And that thynchauntour / shuld sone behedyd be
Without all fauour / there playnly in his syght
His cruell seruauntes / his wyll perfourmyd ryght
Into a preuy / they rowlyd with theyr fete
The head / styll leuynge: the body in the strete.
Agayne to pryson commaundyd he the knyght
And that thynchauntour / shuld sone behedyd be
Without all fauour / there playnly in his syght
His cruell seruauntes / his wyll perfourmyd ryght
Into a preuy / they rowlyd with theyr fete
The head / styll leuynge: the body in the strete.
The iuge departyd / incombryd sore with care
Sekynge newe tourment / by longe aduysement
At last he causyd / his people to prepare
A maruelous whele / saynt George to tourment
The whele was framyd / and that incontynent
Hye / stronge / and large / of maruelous fygure
Of auncyent oke / the better to indure
Sekynge newe tourment / by longe aduysement
At last he causyd / his people to prepare
A maruelous whele / saynt George to tourment
The whele was framyd / and that incontynent
Hye / stronge / and large / of maruelous fygure
Of auncyent oke / the better to indure
This whele in tournynge / at begynnynge was slowe
At last in swyftnes / increasynge more and more
With vyolent sounde / as whan great wynde doth blowe
Lyke Irefull lyons / whan they for hunger rore
On euery syde / behynde / and eke before
Of this cruell whele / were tethe of Iren kene
To rent in sonder / all that cam them betwene
At last in swyftnes / increasynge more and more
With vyolent sounde / as whan great wynde doth blowe
Lyke Irefull lyons / whan they for hunger rore
On euery syde / behynde / and eke before
Of this cruell whele / were tethe of Iren kene
To rent in sonder / all that cam them betwene
The knyght was drawen vnto the sayd tourment
Throughe preas of people in case ryght myserable
In thousande peces: in sonder to be rent
He nought abasshyd / his mynde in faythe was stable
But god in mercy / is neuer disceyuable
Which euer is prone / vs synners to imbrace
Lyke wyse as clerly / apered in this case
Throughe preas of people in case ryght myserable
In thousande peces: in sonder to be rent
He nought abasshyd / his mynde in faythe was stable
But god in mercy / is neuer disceyuable
Which euer is prone / vs synners to imbrace
Lyke wyse as clerly / apered in this case
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Whan god almyghty / behelde his faythfull knyght
Besyde this tourment / of ferefull shape and frame
He by hys vertue / his strengthe and godly myght
Sende the foure wyndys / for to destroy the same
Which fyersly blowynge / more sharpe than fyre flame
From sondry costys / As north / eest / south / and west
This whele dyssoluyd / by vyolent tempest
Besyde this tourment / of ferefull shape and frame
He by hys vertue / his strengthe and godly myght
Sende the foure wyndys / for to destroy the same
Which fyersly blowynge / more sharpe than fyre flame
From sondry costys / As north / eest / south / and west
This whele dyssoluyd / by vyolent tempest
The nauyll / spokys / the whele and axyltre
The tethe and bondes / sharpe and of great substaunce
Brast all in peces / into the ayre dyd flye
The iudge amasyd / abasshyd at this chaunce
And seynge that all his cruell ordynaunce
Of dedely tourment / cowde nat subdue this knyght
For shame and furoure / he drewe hym selfe fro syght
The tethe and bondes / sharpe and of great substaunce
Brast all in peces / into the ayre dyd flye
The iudge amasyd / abasshyd at this chaunce
And seynge that all his cruell ordynaunce
Of dedely tourment / cowde nat subdue this knyght
For shame and furoure / he drewe hym selfe fro syght
In the mean season the knyght to pryson went
Ofte laudynge our lorde / for socoure of his payne
But erly on morne / the Iudge With fals intent
Commaundyd George be brought to hym agayne
And well perceyuynge / that rygour was but vayne
With fayned wordys / framyd by gylefull art
Thus wyse he prouyd / saynt george to peruert
Ofte laudynge our lorde / for socoure of his payne
But erly on morne / the Iudge With fals intent
Commaundyd George be brought to hym agayne
And well perceyuynge / that rygour was but vayne
With fayned wordys / framyd by gylefull art
Thus wyse he prouyd / saynt george to peruert
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