When near the place where they attack’d him, there
George saw the fragments of some earthenware,—
A portion of his stores,—which in their haste
The robbers had incautiously laid waste:
As may be well conceived—just at this spot,
George ponder’d sadly o’er the direful plot,
But yet rejoiced to think what had befell
The treacherous vagabonds at Ruttendell.[225]
So he proceeded, and, when he had gain’d
The Justice’ Court, beheld all four arraign’d;