The late Rev. Treasurer Hawker, M.A., in his sketch of Wolcot, written for the Devonshire Association in 1877 and published in their _Transactions_, describes most accurately Pindar’s very humorous account of George the Third’s visit to Exeter in _Brother Jan’s Epistle to Zester Naw_. He says:— The humour is irresistible. It is impossible not to laugh.... There is a rollicking swing about the description which keeps the whole narrative going like the steady onward pace of a racing eight-oar, or the _vis vivida_ of a fast four-horse coach. He quotes these stanzas as characteristic alike of the humour and the dialect. Introducing the Royal entry:— Well, in a come _King George_ to town With doust and zweat as nutmeg brown, The hosses all in smoke: Huzzain, trumpetin, and dringin, Red colours vleein, roarin, zingin, So mad seemed all the voke. The King was not entertained at the Palace, but was sent to the Dean. Peter says:— Becaze the Bishop sent mun word _A hadn’t got the means_. A could not meat and drink afford. Peter affected to have heard the King’s remarks about the cathedral:— Zo, said, “Neat, neat; clean, very clean; D’ye mop it, mop it, Measter Dean, Mop, mop it every week?” The unhappy reference of Farmer Tab to the King’s mental condition, though concealed by his dialect, was simply cruel, and, of course, was carefully preserved by Peter:— And, Varmer Tab, I understand, Drode his legs vore and catched the hand And shaked wey might and main. “I’m glad your Medjesty to zee, And hope your Medjesty,” quoth he, “Wull ne’er be _mazed_ again.” The King is befogged by the Devonshire word:— “Maz’d, maz’d, what’s maz’d,” then said the King, “I never heerd of zich a thing. What’s maz’d, what, what, my lord?” “Hem,” zed my lord, and blow’d his nose, “Hem, hem, sir, ’tis, I do suppose, Sir, an old Devonshire word.” Jan Ploughshare is made to say in a later stanza that he has found royalty so disappointing a show that when he gets home to Moreton and reads his Bible he shall for the future “skep the books of Kings.” The late Rev. Treasurer Hawker further says:—