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19 So away they went, the cobler being fit to leap out of his skin for joy, not only because he had come off so well, but that he should see his friend Tudor.

CHAP. V. The Cobler's Entertainment in the King's Cellar; how he met with his new friend Harry Tudor, and how he came to know him to be the King.

THE cobler had not been long in the King's cellar before the King came to him in the same habit that he had on when the cobler mended his shoe; where- upon the cobler know him immediately, and run and kissed him, saying, Honest Harry, I have made a holiday on purpose to see you, but I had much a do to get leave of my wife Joan, who was loath that I should lose so much time from my work; but I was resolved to