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or no purpose: for though he saw some- thing in the king's face, which he                   thought he had seen before, yet he                    could not imagine him to be Harry Tudor, whose heel of his shoe he had mended, and who had been so merry with him at the inn, and at his own cellar.

He therefore told the king he did not expect to find Harry Tudor a-                   mong such fine folks as he saw there, but that the person he looked for was a plain honest, and true hearted fellow. Adding withal, that he was sure that did Harry Tudor but know that he was come to court, he would make him very welcome: for, says the cobler, when we                   parted, he charged me to come to court soon and see him, which I promised I                   would, and accordingly, I have made a                    holyday on purpose to have a glass with him.

At which speech of the cobler's the king had much ado to forbear laughing