| Description Of Item | Verses, sung by the princess Sabra (also called Cleolinda and Iaia in other sources’, who will become in this legend the wife of St George:
‘Die all Desires of Joy & Courtly Pleasures,
Die all Pesires of Princely Royalty,
Die all Desires & Worldly Treasures,
Die all Desires of Stately maiesty:
since he is gone that pleased most mine Eye,
for whom I wish ten thousand times to die.’
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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