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When on a sudden, several of the nobles came into the cellar, extraordi- nary rich in apparrel, and all stood un- covered before Harry Tudor, which put the cobler into great amazement at                           first, but presently recovering himself, he looked more wishfully upon Harry Tudor, and soon knowing him to be                           the king whom he saw in the presence chamber, though in another habit, he                           Immediately fell upon his knees, saying,

May it please your Grace, may it                           please your Highness, I am a poor hon- est cobler, and mean no harm.

No, no, said the King, nor shall re- ceive any here, I assure you.

He commanded him therefore to rise, and be as merry as he was before, and though he knew him to be the king, yet he should use the same freedom with him as he did before, when he mended the heel of his shoe.