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out, but keeping his countenance as                     steady as he could before the cobler, he spoke to the yeoman of the guard.

Here, said he, take this honest cobler down into my cellar, and let him drink my health; I will give orders that Harry Tudor shall come to him pre- sently.

So away they went, the cobler being fit to leap out of his skin for joy, not only that he had come off so well, but that he should see his friend Harry Tudor.

CHAP. V.

The Cobler's entertainment in the King's cellar.

The cobler had not been long in the king's cellar, before the king came to                      him in the same habit that he had on                       when the cobler mended his shoe; whereupon the cobler knew him im- mediately, and ran and kissed him, say- ing,