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( 5 ) nounced his doon, which was as follows: As he had affronet the queen among ſo great as equipage, who ought to be he nored in chief, and abuse all woman in that nation, that ho- ſhould be ſtoned to death by the hands of women. Now his time being come that he ſhould die, according to appointment he was taken into a park, where a great number of women was waiting with their aprons full of ſtones, to fall upon him and put him to death according to the queen's appointment.

HIS SPEECH TO HIS EXECUTONERS.

Here's a female band with bags of stones, To kill a man for rample groans, I'm clean of rapine, blood and thefts, Could I convert my farts to rifts; Since the firſt for farting die, Cloſe the hole from whence they fly, To commit my crime I think you'll ſcarce If once you do cork up your arſe; And ſince that woman the ſtones do carry Men need not in the world tarry, Judge if ſuch women be chaſte complete, With forty ſtones between their feet! But ſince it's ſo, you may come on, The greateſt whore throw the firſt ſtone.

When he had ended theſe words, that the greateſt who ſhould throw the firſt ſtone, every one put it to another to caſt the firſt ſtone, but knowing that they would attain the character of a whore for ſo doing, they all refuſed till the dying hour was paſt, and then he took a proteſt againſt them and by ſuch means ſaved his life.

After this he was admitted to the queen's favour and perfence, attending the court as formerly. About this time the French king not knowing how to pick a quarrel with Great Britain, ſent a letter to the king deſiring it to be read before the parliament, and the writing was as follows: Will I come Will I come? Will I come? This letter being read over before the king and his courtiers, they all concluded that the French king deſigned to invade Egland; therefore they wrote a letter, on purpoſe to ſend him again, upbraiding him with the breach of peace, and putting him in mind of the laſt treaty; this letter being read before the king and his nobals they all concluded that it ſhould be ſent as an anſwer;