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should know better things: know ye not that he who gains the plea gains his expences as well as the sun, be what it will.' Yes, it must be so, and shall be so! said the judges. 'This is all I want,' says George: the whole court a-laughing, thinking he was a fool, and become an adversary to the poor woman. 'Give over sport, gentlemen,' says George, 'I have not done yet.'

'My Lords, you will hear me in this: if the poor woman made a bargain with this merchant and other two who were with him, for to keep that pack safely, and to deliver it to none of them, until they were all three present; now, let that man who is here at present go and seek the other two, and they shall have their pack safe enough: but she will keep by her first bargain. So l refer to you. Judges and Gentlemen, if this poor woman be not in the right! This made the Judges look on one another: and the whole court with one voice declared the woman to be in the right, and ordered the pursuer to go and seek his two companions: 'No, no,' says George, 'the poor woman must have her expences, or surety for it.' Then the judges caused the pursuer to be arrested at the bar, until the woman got satisfaction for all her trouble and expences. So George returned to London unknown, but for an advocate, whose fame went through all England; which caused many who had law suits, to search through London for him, but none could ever find him who gained the widow's law plea.

PART VI.

After this, an English squire who professed to be better versed in poetry than George, laid a wager with another gentleman, five guineas against one,