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9 indeed dark and myſtical, but fend him an an- ſwer according to his queſtion. Now, George being ordered to write the anſwer, it was 25 foliows, " And ye come-And ye come-And ye come." This being ſent to the French king, he admired it beyond expreſſion, ſaying, it was an aſwer more valiant and during than he ex- pected. So the enmy he intended was extin- guiſhed and turned into love.

5. It happened once, that a malignant party in Scotland ſent up a great ſpokeſman to the king and Parliament, for the ſeducing of the church; George bearing of his coming, went a- way and met him on the bridge; and the alur tation that he gave him was, the cutting of his head, and throwing it over the bridge! He then ran to the king with ali his might, and fell down before him, pleading moſt heartily for a pardons or without it he was a dead man. The king moſt ſericusly aſked him what he had done now! To which he anſwered, He had only thrown the Scots biſhop's hat over the bridge, which made the king to laugh, to hear him aſk pardon for ſuch a ſmall fault : But he had no ſooner got the pardon ſealed by the king's hand, than he ſaid, indeed, my Sovereign, I threw his hat over the ridge, but his head was in it. O Geordy, Geordy, ſays the king, thou wilt never give o- er till thou be hanged.

6. A Nobleman in England agreed with the king, how to put a trick upon George, to try is manly courage, in ſending him to a certaie