An Excellent New Copy of Verses
On John Foster,
Who was Tried for stealing
A Magpye and Cage.
Tune of Mary Live long.
Licensed according to Order.
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IN new Brandford late
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Some Rogue, as he past by,
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Spy'd a Cage and a Magpye,
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At a Gentleman's Gate,
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And took it away;
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When they mist Cage and Pye,
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They made search narrowly,
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Till they found the Bird out;
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For about the poor Magpye,
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For about the poor Magpye
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There was a great Rout.
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To the Justice they sent,
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And a Warrant in hast Sir,
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Was granted for Foster,
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To whom they strait went,
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The same for to serve;
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And the Constable too,
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His Duty did do,
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And took Foster strait,
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For stealing a Magpye,
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For stealing a Magpye
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From the Gentleman's Gate.
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They had him indeed
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'Fore a Justice to Answer,
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For what he had done Sir,
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Who his Mittimus made,
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And to Prison him sent;
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For three Weeks or more,
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With Want, and Bones sore,
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He in Newgate did lye,
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Till clear'd at the Sessions,
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Till clear'd at the Sessions;
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All for a Magpye.
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When Sessions began,
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He came to be Tryed,
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Not Guilty he cryed.
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The Jury each one
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Did hear out the Cause;
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The Witnesses Sworn,
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Was heard ev'ry one,
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But could not justifie,
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That Foster did steal both,
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That Foster did steal both
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The Cage and Magpye.
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