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without this least discovery who he was, returning home to Whitehall early in                   the morning.

Now, on his return home through the Strand, he took notice of a certain cobler who was constantly up, at work, whistling and singing every morning, The king was resolved to see him, and be acquainted with him, in order to                   which he immediately knocks the heel off his shoe by hitting it against a stone, and having so done, he bounced at the cobler's stall.

Who's there? cries, the cobler.

Here's one, cries, the king. With that the cobler opened the stall door, and the king asked him if he could put the heel on his shoe.

Yes, that I can says the cobler: Come in, honest fellow, and sit thee down by me, and I will do it for thee straight, the cobler scrapping his awls