hundred foote long as men saye, for I have not seene it, and they of the yles call hir the lady of the countrey, and she lyeth in an olde castell and sheweth hir thrise in the yeare, and she doth no man harme and she is thus changed from a damosell to a dragon through a goddesse that men call Diana, and men say that she shall dwell so unto the tyme that a knighte come that is so hardy as to go to hir and kisse hir mouthe, and then shall she tourne againe to hir owne kinde, and be a woman, and after that she shall not live long. And it is not long sith[13] a knight of the Rodes[14] that was hardy and valiant said that he would kisse hir, and whan the Dragon began to lifte up hir head againste him, and he saw it was so hideous, he fled awaye, and the Dragon in hir anger bare the knight on a roche, and of[15] that cast him into the sea and so he was lost. [Footnote 1: ? Salonika.] [Footnote 2: See foot note, _ante_, p. 19.] [Footnote 3: Know.] [Footnote 4: _Pynson_ says 67.] [Footnote 5: Taken up to heaven.] [Footnote 6: Living, alive.] [Footnote 7: Openly.] [Footnote 8: Patera, a city of Lycia.] [Footnote 9: Myra, also in Lycia.] [Footnote 10: The Genoese.] [Footnote 11: The island of Cos.] [Footnote 12: Hippocrates, the famous physician, who was born at Cos.] [Footnote 13: Since.] [Footnote 14: The island of Rhodes.] [Footnote 15: Off.] [Decoration] CAP: IIII. _Yet of the same Dragon._ [Illustration]