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Misbelievers have written Mishelief in their books, Touching the Saint

That Georiugs hight.

Now will we teach you What is tre thereabont, That heresy harm not Any unwittingly.

The holy Georins

Was in heathenish days

A rich ealdorman,

Under the fierce Caesar Datianns, Im the shire of Cappadocia.

The Passion of St. George by Ailfric Arehbishop of York.

Je ne me cache pag le péril que Paffronte en donnant ici le martyre de saint Georges, conte un pur roman; mais je me metirai & couvert sous le décret du pape Damase et, si ce décret ne suffit pas & me protéger an point de vue historique, JP invoquerai Paide du céldbre Baronius gui s'est trouvé fort

scandalise de ce que contenaient ces actes de saint Georges.

Amblineau, Contes et Romans de L’ Egypte Chrétienne, p. LAL.