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 13 water from head to foot, putting him in a clean shirt; afterwards she dressed him in his holiday clothes, pinning his laced band in prim.

CHAP. IV. The Cobler’s reception at Court, with the manner of his behaviour before the king.

THE cobler being thus sent forth, he strutted through the streets like a crow in a gutter, thinking himself as fine as the best of them all. In this manner he came to court, staring on this body and that body as he walked up and down, and not know- ing who to ask for Harry Tudor. At