624 THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN.
Six gentlemen upon the road, And now the turnpike gates again

‘Thus seeing Gilpin fly, Flew open in short space ;
‘With post-boy scampering in the The tollamen thinking, a befor,
‘That Gilpin rode a race.

Mey aed the hue and xy — And eo le did, and won it to0,
For he got first to town;
Stop petit thief a high Norstopp'd, till wherehe had got up
Not one of them was mute; _He did again get down.
And allan each that pas that Now let ussing,long live the king!
‘And Gilpin, long live he;
Dia jots in the pursuit, Andwhenkenextdoth rideabroad,
May I be there to see !