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and old shoes to one side to make room for the king to sit down.

The king being hardly able to forbear laughing at the kindness of the cobler, asked him if there was a house hard by that'sold a cup of ale, and the people up?

Yes, said the coblér, there is an inn over the way, where I believe the folks are up, for the carriers go from thence very early in the morning.

With that the king borrowed an old shoe of the cobler, and went over to                    the inn, desiring the cobler would bring his shoe to him thither as soon he as                    had put on the heel again. The cobler promised he would; so making what haste he could to put on the heel, he                    carries it over to the king, saying, ho- nest blade, here is thy shoe again, and I                    warrant thee it will not come off in                     such a haste.