Saint George and Dragon lost,
Pray Heaven there be a Maid!
But it was smartly return’d to, in this manner,
Saint George indeed is dead,
And the fell Dragon slaine;
The Maid liv’d so and dyed,—
She’ll ne’r do so againe.”
Somewhat different is the earlier version, in Wit’s Recreations, 1640-45. (Reprint, p. 194, which see, “To save a maid,” &c.) The Answer to it is probably Gayton’s own.