To St. Margaret

[ZaunköniG]

Fair Amazon of heaven: who took'st in hand
St. Michael & St. George to imitate:
And for a tyrant's Love transformed to hate,
Wast for thy lily faith retained in band:
Alone on foot & with thy naked hand
Thou did'st like Michael & his host: & that
For which on horse armed George we celebrate:
Whilst thou, like them, a dragon did'st withstand.
Behold my soul shut in my body's jail,
The which the Drake of hell gapes to devour;
Teach me (o virgin) how thou did'st prevail:
Virginity thou saiest was all thy Aid:
Give me then purity instead of power,
And let my soul, made chaste, pass for a Maid.