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( 17 ) withal, they put upon him to ſay the grace, d as follows;

Here are three brethren of this coat, Who for thy bleſſing them thee not, Curſe them Lord, and bleſs them not. Amen. Fall on gentleman the cauſe as good. This glare made the biſhops look like fools to one another, while George laughed heartily at the confuſion they were in.

A candle makes having had ſome candles ſtolen was telling it in company where George was preſent, who had him be of mind cheer, for in a ſhort time, ſays he, I am aſſured they will come to light.

George being ſent to Paris about ſums, buſineſs, went from thence to Verſailles. To ſee the French king's court, at being known there to ſeveral of the courtiers, who had been at the Engliſh court, one of them took occaſion to tell the French king, that George, was one of the wittieſt men in which he did; but George, it ſeems was out of company, or at leaſt ſeemingly ſo, ſpoke but very little to the purpoſe, ſo that the French king told the nobleman that commanded him that ſuch a wit, that he looked upon him as a way auld fellow; but the nobleman aſſured the king, whatever he thought of him, George was a very witty and i man; whereupon the king was reſolved to make further trial of him, and took him on a great gallery where there was abundance of the pictures, and, among the reſt