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( 9 ) bounds before them, made up his aquaintance with a ſhop-head at the border, whoſe paſture lay in the way ſide where the clergymen were to paſs, and here George m ted himſelf in a ſhepherd's dreſs and when he ſaw the clergymen coming he conveyed like to the way ſide, where he fell a ſinging a Latin ſong; and ſo, to begin the quarrel one of them aſked him in Greek, what countryman he was; to which he anſwered in Flemiſh, if you knew that you would be as wiſe as myſelf. The next aſked him in Dutch, where was you educated, which he anſwered in ing my ſheep between this and L ha , him to explain into Engliſh which he

clergymen, he ſhepherd's England with all the haſte imaginable, at the place from, whe y not, them, and went every day aſking if they he might not be ſuſpected. Now upon they that were con in the came crowding to know what was the three gentlemen declared what clergymen and the ſhepherd wh der, but the Biſhop made anſwer, and that a ſhepherd could anſwer the the devil for the Scots mi it, they are but ignorant of ſuch matters; p boys.- e George thought it was ſpeech in d. Well, my lord father, ſay them a parcel ea long heard yourſelf my lord biſhop, and were meaſured by s, you biſhops have it all, and that will be b a What, ſays the biſhop, you I am a Scot. Well, ſays the biſhop, between a Scot and a S George, but the b of the between the biſhop and George, in a high paſſion, while the whole ſplit their jaws with laughter. this time there was a benefit of my der, if they