The gates of dawn are opened and sunlight fills the land, The Christians issuing from the gates in martial order stand, They close in fight, and paynim host and Christian knights of Spain, Not half a league from the city gate, are struggling on the plain.

Then after when he was brought by captiviy with his wife and his son into the city of Nineveh with all his tribe, and when all ate of the meats of the Gentiles and Paynims, this Tobit kept his soul clean and was never defouled in the meats of them.

Thou shouldst then have seen the turbes of the Jews and of the paynims that smote them and spit in their visages.

And the Paynims had supposed that it had been their gods.

Then assembled great number of Christian men and of Paynims also, and pursued so long the Greeks that they doubted to have been slain, and threw the bodies in a pit at the catacombs, but afterward they were drawn out by Christian men.

Ambrose saith in his preface thus, of this holy martyr: Lord, thou hast given to Christopher so great plenty of virtues, and such grace of doctrine, that he called from the error of Paynims forty-eight thousand men, to the honor of Christian faith, by his shining miracles.

He was so gracious that all Christian men and Paynims loved him, for he was fair like an angel to look on, a fair speaker, whole of body, holy in work, good in counsel, patient and charitable, and firmly established in the faith.

Then the emperor ordained two Paynims, Gentiles, to be their judges, of whom that one was named Crato, and that other Zenophilus, which were proved wise and expert, and they to give the sentence, and be judge of the disputation.

Then the queen and the judges, which were Paynims, were converted to the faith.

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.

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.

Ten christened men are worth a hundred of such paynims.

Divers outland kings, and many paynim and Saracens, were mixed with the Christian folk, for all these people owned fealty to Rome, and were in the service of the emperor.

nay, cutpurses, rather, whoresons, paynims who have neither trust in God, nor faith in our true religion.

Arthur found the paynim before him.

The idea of knighthood still stirs us and the deeds of chivalry and the courtesy and the honour of the social Knights of the Round Table, Crusaders and knights errant, the quest of the Holy Grail, rescue and adventure, the fighting with paynims and powers of evil, still stir our blood and arouse in our minds strange contrasts and antinomies.

"Soon trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex'd she lay, Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away Flown, like a thought, until the morrow-day: Blissfully haven'd both from joy and pain; Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray; Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again.

Then the king was a tyrant, and was come of the line of paynims, and took them and put them in prison in a deep hole.

the time is near; I must be gone There are our liegemen; how you'll welcome us, Returned in triumph, bowed with paynim spoils, Beneath the victor cross, to part no more!

Now this merchant ship fared so far that she came to the land of the Paynims, and cast anchor in the port of Aumarie.

Be assured that this was no fair meeting, for the Paynims took them and led them before the Soudan, who was lord of that realm.

As for the dame, she hid herself from the sight, for it gave her little joy, this slaying of the Christian by the Paynims.

To her, his kingship is as unquestioned as when heretics and paynims burnt to prove it.

" He threw his shield o'er his left side, Bound on his helm so proud, And as to battle he did ride, He rose and called aloud: "Who brings this locket back to me Be his the day's renown!" Then 'mid the paynims mightily

"Seventy thousand Christian warriors, All in snowy garments dight, Led by one of giant stature, Mounted on a charger white; "On his breast a cross of crimson, In his hand a sword of fire, With it hew'd he down the Paynims, As they fled, with slaughter dire.