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that if he would come and see him there, he would make him very welcome, because he was a merry companion, and charged him not to forger his name and to ask any one for him about the court, and they would soon bring him to him; for, said the king, I am very well known there.
Now the cobler little dreamt that he was the King that spake to him, much less that the King's name was Harry Tudor. Therefore, with a great deal of confidence he stands up, puts off his hat, makes two or three scrapes with his foot, and gives the King many thanks, also telling him, that he was one of the most honest fellows that ever he met with in all his life-time and although he had never been at court, yet he should not be long before he would make a holiday to come and see him.
Whereupon the King paying for what they had drunk, would have taken his leave of the Cobler; but he
