queror.

No sooner, alas! had the brave old Knight arrived before the city, and
presented the people with the head of the dragon which had so long
annoyed the country, which was borne before him by the trusty old De
Fistycuff, than, what with the abundance of blood that issued from his
deep wounds, and the long bleeding without stopping of the same, he sunk
back into the arms of his faithful Squire, and, without a sigh, he
yielded up his breath. Great was the moan that was made for him
throughout the country, and all in the land, from the King to the
shepherd, mourned him for the space of a month. The King also, in
remembrance of him, ordained for ever after to be kept a solemn
procession by all the princes and chief nobility of the country upon the
twenty-third day of April, naming it Saint George's Day; on which day
the brave old Knight was most solemnly interred in the city where he was
born. The King likewise decreed, by the consent of the whole kingdom,
that the patron of the land should be named Saint George our Christian
Champion, in that he had fought so many battles to the honour of
Christendom.

Thus ends the ancient, authentic, and most credible chronicle from which
I have quoted.

There are many other documents extant, giving accounts of the exploits
of Saint George's three sons, and of the sons of some of the other
Champions of Christendom; but as I do not consider that they emanated
from sources so reliable and unexceptionable as those chronicles from
which I have quoted, I have not thought it advisable to introduce them
in the present veracious narrative.

THE END.

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