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 7 livered into her hands, but the 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 in chief above all women in the nation, that ne ſhould be ſtoned to death, by the hands of vo. men. Now the time being come that he was to die, according to their appointment, he was ta- ken into a park, where a great number of wo- men was waiting for him, with their aprons full of ſtones, to fall upon him, and to put him to death, according to the Queen's appointment.

George's Speech to his Executioners.

Here's a female band, with bags of ſtones, To hill man for rumpie groans : I'm clean of rapine, blood and thefts, Could I convert forts to riſts ? Since I, the firſt, for farting die, Cloſe up the place from whence they fly. To corinis my crime, I think, ye'll ſearce, If once you do cork up your arſe. And now face women ſtones do carry, Men reed not in the world forry. Judge if ſuch women be chaſte complete, With forty stones between their feet. But ſince 'tis ſo ye will come on, The greateſt whore throw the firſt ſtone.

When he ended with theſe words, "The greateſt