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The Renowned History of the Seven Champions of Christendom and Their Sons [by R. Johnson].
The Renowned History of the Seven Champions of Christendom and Their Sons - by R. Johnson Author:Richard Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. How St. James, the champion of Spain, continued seven years dumb for the love of the fair Jew, and how he should have been shot to death by the maidens of Jerusalem, with other things which happened in his travels. Now must my muse speak of St. James of Spain, the third champion, and what happened unto him in his seven years' travels through many a strange country by sea and land, where his honourable acts were so dangerous and full of wonder, that I want skill to express, and art to describe. Also I am forced, for brevity sake, to pass over his dangerous battle with the burning drake, upon the flaming mount in Sicily, which terrible combat continued for the space of seven days and seven nights. Likewise I omit his travels in Cappadocia, through a wilderness of monsters, with his passage over the Ited Sea, where his ship was devoured with worms, his mariners drowned, and himself, his horse, and furniture, safely brought to land by the sea-nymphs and mermaids : where after his long travels, past perils, and dangerous tempests, among the stormy billows of the raging seas, he arrived in the unhappy dominions of Judah ; unhappy by reason of the long aud troublesome misery he endured for the love of a fair Jew. For coming to the beautiful city of Jerusalem (being in that age the wonder of the world, for brave buildings, princely palaces, and wonderful temples), he so admired the glorious situation thereof (being the richest place that ever his eyes beheld), that he stood before the walls of Jerusalem, one while gazing upon her golden gates, glittering against the sun's bright countenance ; anot...« less