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( 6 ) I'm clean of rapine, blood, and thefts; Could I convert my ſarts to rifts; Since I the firſt for farting die, Cloſe by the ſide from whence they fly; To commit my crime I think you'll ſcarce, If once you do cork up your arſe; And now ſince women the ſtones do carry, Men need not in the world tarry. Judge if ſuch women be chaſte complete, With forty ſtones between their feet! But ſince it's ſo you may come on, The greateſt whore throw the firſt ſtone.

When he had ended theſe words, that the greateſt whore ſhould throw the firſt ſtone, every one put it to another to caſt the firſt ſtone, but knowing that they would attain the character of a whore for ſo doing they all refuſed till the dying hour was paſt, and then he took a proteſt againſt them; and by ſuch means ſaved his life.

After this he was admitted to the queen's favour and preſence, attending the court as formerly. About this time the French king not knowing how to pick a quarrel With Great Britain, ſent a letter to the king deſiring it to be read before the parliament, and the writing was as follows: Will I come? Will I come? Will come? This letter being read over before the king and his courtiers, they all concluded that the French king deſigned to invade England; therefore they wrote a letter, on purpoſe to ſend him again, unbraiding him, with the breach of peace and putting him in mind of the laſt treaty: this letter being read over before the king and his nobles, they all condeſcended, that it ſhould be ſent as anſwer: but George ſmiling, and ſhaking his head, cried on;

Many men, many minds,

Who knows what he deſigns?

Then they aſked George, what he thought the French king meant by ſuch a letter to which he anſwered, I ſuppoſe he wants an invitation to come over to dinner, and then go back in friendly manner, but you are going to charge him with a breach of peace, before he lives any ſignal of offence of war, his letter is indeed dark and miſtical, but give him an anſwer according to his queſtion.

Now George being ordered to write the anſwer, it was And ye come. And ye com. And ye come. This being ſent to the French king, he admired it beyond expreſſion, ſaying, it was an anſwer mere valiant and daring that he expected; ſo the enmity lie intended was extinguiſhed hereby, and turned into love.

About this time it happened, that s malignant party is