_GOZON_, who, after several dangerous Onsets escaped with his Life, resolved to make another Trial by Stratagem; perceiving it was no where vulnerable but in the Eyes and Belly, contrived the Resemblance of a Dragon by a Machine of Pastboard, of equal Bulk with the Dragon, and by certain Springs made it leap like a true Dragon: Having trained up a Couple of fierce Dogs to attack it at the _Belly_, he went out privately one Morning, well-armed on a managed Horse with his Dogs, and rode up to the Den, from whence the Dragon leaped furiously at him: In the Encounter, the Dogs laid hold on his Belly, and forced him to lie down; upon which the valiant Knight alighted, thrust his great Sword several times into his Throat, and soon killed him: Upon which the Spectators drew near, and with great difficulty sever’d the Head from the Body, and lugged it into the Town in Triumph. The Conqueror was degraded for the sake of Form, because he had violated the Grand-Master’s Order; but was immediately restored, and soon after was elected Grand-Master himself; he died in the Year 1335, and on his Tomb were engraven these Words, _Draconis Extinctor_; _The Destroyer of the Dragon_. In the Life of _Attilius Regulus_ (the _Roman_ General in the War against the _Carthaginians_) is described a Dragon of prodigious Bulk near the River _Bagrada_, that annoyed all the Country round, without Remedy. Several Devices were formed to destroy it, but without effect, till the Military _Possé_ was called in, who discharged the _Engines of War_ against it with Success: And so great was this Deliverance, that an _Ovation_, or a small Triumph, was publickly made at _Rome_ for the Victory. XI. The _Pythian_ Dragon, so called from its being the Guardian of the _Delphick_ Oracle: Its Eyes are large and sharp, and the Body painted with Variety of Colours, as red, yellow, green and blue, and furnished with Scales that are resplendent, well compacted and hard. It has been called _Deucalionæus_, because in the Language of Ignorance, it was produced from the Mud left by the _Deucalionian_ Deluge: a Serpent of prodigious Bulk.[154] Footnote 154: _Jonstonus._