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THE Witty and Entertaining

EXPLOITS OF

G E O R G E B U C H A N N A N.

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MR GEORGE BUCHANAN was a Scotsman born, and though of mana parentage, made great progress in learning. As for his understanding and ready wit, he excelled all men then alive in that age, that ever proposed questions to him. He was servant or teacher to King James VI. as his private counsellor, but publicly he acted as fool.

It happened one day that a young airy nobleman went into the King's garden, to pull a flower for a