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gave no answer, but expreſsed sreat sorrow for the loſs of his Drownie.

18. George having been long abroad, after his return, he thought to go and visit the King and his court in disguise, and meeting with an old man driving two old horses, loaded with coals to sell, George makes a bargain with the old man, for the loan of his clothes, his horse, coals, whip, and every thing, for to complete him as a real coal-driver. So, away he goes in this dreſs, until he came before the King's Palace, where he began to cry with an audible voice, Buy coals, buy coals! better buy than borrow. Now, the King being in company with his young Chaplain, who was a foundling, so that none knew his original, and had been fostered and educated out of charity by the King's father, yet he was become as proud as Lucifer, and as high in his own conceit as the King himſelf. The King knowing George's voice, though he was in a coalman's dreſs, deſired the Chaplain to ask the coalman why he called so loud, making such a terrible noise?-- The Chaplain opened the window, and with a great air called unto him, You, sir, why do you cry so for? Why, says George, I cry for people to come and bury my coals, and give me money for them but what do you cry for? What, sir, says the young