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( 8 ) ſays George the woman made ſuch a noiſe and crying when he was raviſhing her, it has put the poor man deaf I aſſure you. Is it ſo, ſaid the Judge. No, no, ſays the woman my Lord Judge, you may well believe me, I lay as a lamb, and never ſpoke a word all the time. Very wall confeſſed, ſays the Judge, and you have ſworn a rape againſt him: go, take the whore to Newgate, and ſet the poor man about his buſſineſs. And ſo it ended.

PART II.

GEORGE happened one night to be in company with a Biſhop, and to they fell to an argument about religion, where in George got the better of him, and the Biſhop himſelf found he was wrong: then one of the company addreſſed himſelf to George in theſe words: Thou Scot, ſaid he, ought not to have left thine own country. For what? ſays George, because thou haſt brought all the knowledge in it along with thee. No, no, ſays George, the ſhepherds in Scotland will argue with any Biſhop in England, and exceed them mighty far in knowledge. The Engliſh clergy, took this as a great affront, and ſeveral noblemen affirmed it to be a George had ſaid. Wagers were laid thereon, and three of the Engliſh clergy were choſen and ſent away to Scotland, to diſpute with the ſhepherds, accompanied with ſeveral gentlemen who were to be as witneſſes of what they heard paſs between them. Now George knowing what way they were going, took another road and came into the Scots bounds before them, made up his accquaintance with a Shepherd at the border, whoſe paſture lay hard by the way ſide where the clergymen were to paſs, and here George mounted himſelf in a ſhepherd's dreſs, and when he ſaw the clergyman coming, he conveyed his flock to the way ſide, where he fell a ſinging a Latin ſong; and ſo to begin the quarrel one of them aſked him in Greek what countryman he was, to which he anſwered in Flemiſh, if you knew that you would be as wiſe as myſelf- The next aſked him in Dutch, where was you educated? which he anſwered in Earle, herding my ſheep between this and Lochaber; this they begged him to explain into Engliſh, which he accordingly did. Now ſaid the one to the other, we need not go any further, What, ſays George are you butchers? I'll fell you a few ſheep. To this they, made no anſwer; but went away