282; Wisconsin Academy of ScienceArts, and Letters. 
However, there are some difficulties; Jeven in this simple 
hypothesis. According to the church legend, St. George does 
not marry the rescued maiden. Instead he gives the would-be 
father-in-law some sound orthodox advice and leaves. But in 
the Lutterworth play St. George proclaims: 
“I slew the fiery dragon and brought him to the slaughter, 
And won the King of Elgypt’s only daughter.” 
The daughter here referred to, Sabra by name, herself ap¬ 
pears in the C'ornish play, but does not speak. 
These lines and this incident cannot have been derived from 
the church legend, but must have come from some other 
source. The word “won” may mean merely “rescued” or 
“won from the dragon,” but the other meaning seems the more 
probable one. 
In the classical and all the secular forms of the story the 
marriage of rescuer and rescued is an important feature, and 
this antimonastic detail appears in the play. It may be merely 
a change in accordance with the folk-feeling of the appropriate 
ending, or it may come from a form of the story which the 
churchly legend displaced. In spite of the difficulties, however, 
it seems clear that St. George and his Dragon, in the form in 
which we know them, came from the hagiological story. 
The Doctor, too, under his various names, may be traced in 
part to definite written sources. An important part of his 
speech is his boasting and his hard bargaining. He has 
traveled far and his powers are great, and he will not sell his 
experience for nothing. The position of St. George or of the 
person or persons who are dead is a somewhat awkward one, 
and so the doctor is in a position to drive a hard bargain. 1 
Almost the very speech that occurs in some of the folk-plays, 
occurs in an early Latin play on the Resurrection, preserved in x 
MS. of the twelfth century at Tours. The three Marys are at the 
tomb and they wish to purchase an unguent (unguentum) for 
i In some forms of the legend the Magician Anastasius appears and 
opposes his magic to St. George’s supposed magic power. It is diffi¬ 
cult to see how Anastasius could be the original of the Doctor. Anas- 
tas’ius does not resuscitate any one. See Matzke, op. cit., vol. 17, PP. 
467-475; vol. 18, pp. 481-484, for the part played by Anastasius. 
