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have there a tub of good brown ale that was never tapped yet, and you must go                    and taste it, for you are the most ho- nest blade I ever met withal, and I love an honest merry companion, with all my heart.

C H A P. II.

How the Cobler entertained the King in his cellar, and of the disturbance they had like to have had by his wife Joan.

So the cobler took the king with him over the way, where he had his cel- lar adjoining the stall, which was hand- somely and neatly furnished for a man of his profession. Into the cellar he                    took the king; there, said he, sit down, you are welcome; but I must desire you to speak soſtly, for fear of waking my wife Joan, who lies hard by, (shew-                    ing the king a close bed made neatly                     up at one corner of the cellar, much like                     a closet,) for if she should wake she will make our ears ring again.