with direful execrations againſt the Chriſtian religion, he was boiled to death in a brazen caldron filled with lead and brimſtone; at the ſight of whoſe death, aswell Pagans as Chriſtians, with a loud voice cried out, "Long live St. George, the victorious Champion of England, who, by his valiant proweſs, hath freed Barbary from their miſerable thraldom."
Hereupon the Morocco peers, with bended knees, came to St. George; proffering unto him the imperial crown of Barbary, and promiſing to be chriſtened in the Chriſtian faith; all which was preſently performed by placing the crown upon his head, and aboliſhing Mahometaniſm with all the ſuperſtitious rites of that falſe prophet; whereupon a great alteration ſuddenly enſued, Pagan temples were pulled down, and a Chriſtian church erected: inſtead of a tyrannical government, good and wholeſome laws were ordained: peace and plenty flouriſhed every where, and a general rejoicing was throughout the whole kingdom.
But the heroic Champions, not minding to ſpend their time in the idle bower of peace, and to let their armour hang ruſting on the wall, when ſo much action was to be done in the world; they therefore ſummoned their ſoldiers to re-aſſume their courage, and to put themſelves in an equipage for war. St George leaving the government of the land, in his abſence, to four of the principal peers of Morocco; the whole army marched directly to Egypt againſt K. Ptolemy, who had confederated with Almidor for ſending St. George into Perſia.
C H A P. IX.
THE ſeven Champions of Chriſtendom, with their victorious army, being arrived in Egypt, they
