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 in a friendly manner, but you are going to charge him with a breach of peace, before he has given any signal of offence or war: His letter is indeed dark and mytical, but end him an anwer according to his quetion. Now George being ordered to write the anver, it was as follows, "And ye come--And ye come--And ye come," This being ent to the French king, he admired it beyond expresion, aying, it was an anwer more valiant and daring than he expected. So the enmity he intended was extinguihed and turned into love.

5. It happened once, that a malignant party in Scotland ent up a great spokesman to the king and parliament, for the educing of the church, George hearing of his coming went away and met him on the bridge, and the alutation that he gave him was, the cutting off his head, and throwing it over the bridge! He then run to the king with all his might, and fell down before him pleading mot heartily for a pardon, or without it he was a dead man. The king mot seriously asked him what he had done now? To which he anwered, He had only thrown the Scots bihop's hat over the bridge; which made the king to laugh, to hear him ask pardon for uch a mall fault: But he had no ooner got the pardon ealed by the king's hand, than he aid, Indeed my Sovereign, I threw his hat over the bridge, but his head was in it. O Geordy, Geordy, ays the king, thou wilt never give over till thou be hanged.