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 appearance in parliament, went of in a passion and would never countenance them more. But yet to be revenged on George, she would never leave the king rest till he delivered George into her hands that he might be punished at her pleasure: which the king accordingly commanded to be done knowing that George would rescue himself by some intrigue or other. No sooner was he delivered into her hands, but she and her maids of honour pronounced his doom, which was as follows: "As he had affronted the Queen among so great an equipage, who ought to be honoured as chief above all women in the nation, that he would be stoned to death by the hands of women". Now the time being came that he was to die, according to their appointment. He was taken into a park, where a great number of women were waiting for him with their aprons full of stones, to fall upon him, and put him to death, according to the Queen's appointment.

"Here's a female band with bags of stones, To kill man for rumple groans, I'm clean of rapine, blood, and thefts, Could I convert my farts to rifts? Since I the first for farting die, Come up the place from whence they fly. To commit my crimes I'll thank ye'll scarce, If once you do cork up your arse. And how since women stones do carry, Men need not in this world tarry. Judge if such women be chaste complete, With forty stones between their feet; But since its so you must come on The greatest whore throw the first stone.

When he ended with these words, 'the greatest whore throw the first stone,' every one put it to another to cast the first stone; but knowing they would attain the character of a whore for so