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An oryson vnto ye blessyd martyr saynt george with an excusacyon of ye auctor of his rude translacyon. Capitulum xx.viii.
O gloryouse martyr / o scourge of tyranny
O stedfast pyller / of fayth / and holynes
Most stronge confounder / of fals ydolatry
Accept my wrytynge / and pardon my rudenes
I playnly knowelege / myn owne vnworthynes
My style to thy actys / is no more mete / nor lyke
Than is a vyle vessell / for bawme aromatyke
O stedfast pyller / of fayth / and holynes
Most stronge confounder / of fals ydolatry
Accept my wrytynge / and pardon my rudenes
I playnly knowelege / myn owne vnworthynes
My style to thy actys / is no more mete / nor lyke
Than is a vyle vessell / for bawme aromatyke
yet in thy goodnes / my hart hath confydence
Sith my chefe purpose / is people to excyte
Unto thy honour / thy laude: and reuerence
To haue in thy seruyce / pleasour and delyte
Than blessyd patron / my seruyce to acquyte
Be alway redy / with my olde foo: to fyght
That the olde serpent / agayne me haue no myght
Sith my chefe purpose / is people to excyte
Unto thy honour / thy laude: and reuerence
To haue in thy seruyce / pleasour and delyte
Than blessyd patron / my seruyce to acquyte
Be alway redy / with my olde foo: to fyght
That the olde serpent / agayne me haue no myght
Preserue thy royalme / in peas and vnyte
Represse rebellers / and men presumptuous
Defende thy prynce / from all aduersyte
In longe succession / of chauncys prosperous
Expell from his grace / all thynge contraryons
Graunt helth / and welth / good lyfe and charyte
Within thy royalme / contynually to be
Represse rebellers / and men presumptuous
Defende thy prynce / from all aduersyte
In longe succession / of chauncys prosperous
Expell from his grace / all thynge contraryons
Graunt helth / and welth / good lyfe and charyte
Within thy royalme / contynually to be
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Lyke as thou lyuynge / gladly defendydest ryght
Assystynge wretchys in care and mysery
So for thy seruauntys / be redy nowe to fyght
Agaynste the olde serpente / and auncyent enmy
Graunt vs to vanquysshe / this worlde transytory
With all blynde fraudys / and folyes of the same
And that our soules / may the vyle carkas tame
Assystynge wretchys in care and mysery
So for thy seruauntys / be redy nowe to fyght
Agaynste the olde serpente / and auncyent enmy
Graunt vs to vanquysshe / this worlde transytory
With all blynde fraudys / and folyes of the same
And that our soules / may the vyle carkas tame
These fraudfull serpentys / vs dayly doth assayle
By gyle intendynge / to brynge vs to vttraunce
But we by thy ayde agayne them may preuayle
Such is our truste / and stedfast esperaunce
Our youthes erroures / and blynde mysgouernaunce
Thou mayst ouercome / dyrectynge vs with ryght
Syth cryst and mary / hath the theyr chosen knyght
By gyle intendynge / to brynge vs to vttraunce
But we by thy ayde agayne them may preuayle
Such is our truste / and stedfast esperaunce
Our youthes erroures / and blynde mysgouernaunce
Thou mayst ouercome / dyrectynge vs with ryght
Syth cryst and mary / hath the theyr chosen knyght
Mars hath had honoure / in many a regyon
As god of batayle / for actys excellent
But this thy royalme / the takyth for patron
For thy bolde actys / for god omnypotent
Boldly abyden / in purpose permanent
Thou drad no tyrant / dyenge for equyte
Graunt all thy knyghtys / of the same sect to be
As god of batayle / for actys excellent
But this thy royalme / the takyth for patron
For thy bolde actys / for god omnypotent
Boldly abyden / in purpose permanent
Thou drad no tyrant / dyenge for equyte
Graunt all thy knyghtys / of the same sect to be
So that thy royalme / in euery estate
In grace and vertue / abound and multyply
Namely thy order / in chaunces fortunate
Dyrect and gouerne / in ryghtwyse chyualry
With palme and tryumphe / of euery ennemy
And after in stede / of plesour transytory
Purchace a place / to them / in endles glory.
In grace and vertue / abound and multyply
Namely thy order / in chaunces fortunate
Dyrect and gouerne / in ryghtwyse chyualry
With palme and tryumphe / of euery ennemy
And after in stede / of plesour transytory
Purchace a place / to them / in endles glory.
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