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 And there againſt him they did rall,
 * as if they had been mad.

His indictment was made with ſpeed,
 * in haſte, as was ſuppoſ’d.

And this indictment you may read,
 * if you are ſo diſpoſ‘d.

IMPRIMIS,

OR killing his father’s horſes. Item, for loſing a hatchet. Item, for loſing his clothes, which were borrowed. Item, for laying hands upon his father’s white dog. Item, for breaking to pieces the great butter milk pot. Item, for ſpoiling the poſſet. Item, for burning his father’s ſheets. Item, for piſſing his bed. Item, for unmercifully breaking his old father’s head. Item, for frightening a poor ſimple country fellow. Item, for riding away with his father‘s bull: Of all which he was found GUILTY.