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Chap-books of the eighteenth century (1882)

Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London Chatto and Windus · leaf 183

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, not Cappadocia, is made his birth-place; hisfather was a renowned peer named Lord Albert, and hismother was the Kings daughter, who before St Georges birthdreamed her child would be a dragon. So Lord Albert went to … The Life and Death of St. George. [67 consult the enchantress Kalyb, which he did by blowing atrumpet at the entrance of her cave, when a voice replied thathis son should be as fierce as a dragon in deeds of chivalry.The mother died in childbirth, and St. George was stolen in hisinfancy by Kalyb,…

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