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 THE

WITTY EXPLOITS

OF

Mr. George Buchanan.

PARTI.

MR. GEORGE, BUCHANAN was a fee man born, and tho' of mean parentage, ma great progreſs in learning: as for his und ſtanding and ready wit, he excelled all men t! alive in the age, that ever propoſed queſtions laim. He was ſervant or taacher to King Jan the Sixth, and one of his privy councillos but pablicly acted as his fool.

I. It happened one day, that a young airyin 'bleman went into the King's garden to pil flower for a young lady he laucied. George: lowed at a diſtance; ſo, when the young na found a flower he ſancied, he would not pl. himſelf, but, to find it again, without fire ſearch, he covered it with his hat, and away for his ſweetheart. No ſooner was tego but up goes George, lifts his bat, and pulls flower; then eaſes himſes on the ſpot, covers wish the hat again, and away he goes Scon ter the young gentleman returned, leading ſweetheart to pull the flower below the heat as ſoon as he lifted the hat, and law what below it, be looked like a foci; and the lady,