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 should hear pass between them. Now, George know ing which way they went, immediately took anothe road and was in Scotland before them. He the made an acquaintance with a shepherd on the borde whose pasture lay on the wayside where the bishop were to pass; and there he mounted himself in shepherd's dress; and when he saw the bishop appear, he conveyed his flock to the roadside, and fe a chanting at a Latin ballad. When the bishop came up to George, one of them asked him i French, what o'clock it was? To which he answere in Hebrew, it is directly about the time of the day was yesterday at this time. Another asked him i Greek, what countryman he was? To which hi answered in Flemish, if you knew that, you would be as wise as myself. A third asked him in Dutch where was you educated? To which he answered i Earse, herding my sheep between this and Lochabe This they desired him to explain into English, whic he immediately did. Now, said the one to the other we need not proceed any farther. What, says George are you butchers? I'll sell you a few sheep. To thi they made no answer, but went away shamefully, an said, they believed the Scots had been through all the nations in the world for their education, or the dev had taught them. Now, when George had ended th dispute with the bishops, he stripped off his she herd's dress, and up through England he goes wit all the haste imaginable, so that he arrived at th place from whence they set out three days before the judges, and vent every day asking if they were come so that he might not be suspected. As soon as the arrived, all that were concerned in the dispute, an many more, came crowding in to hear what news from the Scottish shepherds, and to know what was done