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To all true hearts and merry company- ions; at which the king smiled, saying, Friend, I’ll pledge thee. In this manner they ate and drank to- gether, till it was almost break of day; the cobler being very free of his liquor, and delighting the king with several of his old stories, insomuch that he was highly pleased with the manner of his entertainment; when on a sudden the cobbler's wife Joan began to awake. In faith, says the cobler, you must be gone, my wife Joan begins to grumble, she’ll awake presently, and I would not for hslt tne shoes in ray shop she would find J you here, Then taking the king by the hand, led him lip the s/airs, saying, Farewell, 'honest friend, it shan’t be long before 1 make a holiday to come and see thee at court. Thou shalt be kindly welcome, replied the king. So they parted, the king on Ins way to Whitehall, ann the cobler to his cel-’, Tar, and there putting all things to hghtf before his wife Joan got up, he went to work again, whistling and singing as -merry as;he used to do, being much s»tbficd that he happened on so good and