doubt ye no thing hereof for I shall help thee in
the name of Jesu Christ. She said: For God's sake, good knight, go your
way, and abide not with me, for ye may not deliver me. Thus as they
spake together the dragon appeared and came running to them, and St.
George was upon his horse, and drew out his sword and garnished him with
the sign of the cross, and rode hardily against the dragon which came
toward him, and smote him with his spear and hurt him sore and threw him
to the ground. And after said to the maid: Deliver to me your girdle,
and bind it about the neck of the dragon and be not afeard. When she had
done so the dragon followed her as it had been a meek beast and
debonair. Then she led him into the city, and the people fled by
mountains and valleys, and said: Alas! alas! we shall be all dead. Then
St. George said to them: Ne doubt ye no thing, without more, believe ye
in God, Jesu Christ, and do ye to be baptized and I shall slay the
dragon. Then the king was baptized and all his people, and St. George
slew the dragon and smote off his head, and commanded that he should be
thrown in the fields, and they took four carts with oxen that drew him
out of the city.

Then were there well fifteen thousand men baptized, without women and
children, and the king did do make a church there of our Lady and of St.
George, in the which yet sourdeth a fountain of living water, which
healeth sick people that drink thereof. After this the king offered to
St. George as much money as there might be numbered, but he refused all
and commanded that it should be given to poor people for God's sake; and
enjoined the king four things, that is, that he should have charge of
the churches, and that he should honor the priests and hear their
service diligently, and that he should have pity on the poor people, and
after, kissed the king and departed.

Now it happed that in the time of Diocletian and Maximian, which were
emperors, was so great persecution of Christian men that within a month
were martyred well twenty-two thousand, and therefore they had so great
dread that some renied and forsook God and did sacrifice to the idols.
When St. George saw this, he left the habit of a knight and sold all
that he had, and gave it to the poor, and took the habit of a Christian
man, and went into the middle of the Paynims and began to cry: All the
gods of the Paynims and Gentiles be devils, my God made the heavens and
is very God. Then said the pr