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George taking up, he asked the Bishop what book it was? The Bishop, looking at it very earnestly, said he could not tell. Why, said George, do you keep a book you don't know the name of? It may be the Book of Black Art, O no, said the Bishop, I don't think it is that; but can you tell me what it is; Yes, says George, it is the Bible, the best book for a Bishop I know, if he had eyes to ſee the inſide of it. So the Biſhop deſired George to read a piece of it; but when he did the Biſhop could not uuderſtand it; therefore he deſired him to explain it; which George did: The paſſage happened to be in Isaiah ix. 19 "For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led by them, are destroyed, " To which George added, This is the blind leading the blind. So George taking his leave of the Bishop, he parted with him, saying these words:

Good night, now masler Bishop, Of Books you have great store; Yet cannot read the half of them, Then what use are they for?

21 George being one night in company with some English Noblemen, in presence of the King, they began to demonſtrate what a fine country England was, both for