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will not eat oysters. The people at the fire hearing this, started up and ran to the door to see the horse eating oysters: the moment they left their seats, George took the opportunity to plant himself before the fire, with a table and cloth aside him. In a little they came back again one by one, saying, This horse will not eat oysters: Well, well, says George, he is too full or too saucy; so you may bring them in and I will eat them myself.

One time after this, George being in company bout twenty miles from London, and on his way homeward, a fine gilded coach came up after him, and being informed that it belonged to the bishop of Canterbury, and was going to London for his Lordship, George addresses himself to the coachman to have a passage with him in the coach to London. So he bargained with the coachman for two dollars to carry him to the Bell-Inn on London bridge; the one he gave him in hand as he entered the conch, and he was to give him the other as soon as he saw him come out of the coach-door: So away the coachman drives to London, in all haste, in which time George wrote the following lines:

Here sits the bishop of Canterbury, Who at the schools disdain'd to tarry: Far better skill'd in games than preaching And yet he lives by others teaching. Blind leaders of the blind indeed 'Tis blind and lame that chariots need, Six brutes with eyes this brute doth carry, I mean the bishop of Canterbury. My feet being lame I gave a dollar To be drove in state, like you a scholar;