The folks drew about so to hear:
He did to a hairs-breadth describe him,
And call’d him again and again,
And Geordy by four-pence did bribe him,
For all the small pains he had ta’n.
Scarce were the jaw-bones of these asses
Well shut, till a Thrunton-bred lad,
Eas’d Geordy a bit of his crosses,
By bringing him news of his pad:
These tidings his spirit renewed,