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Now the king considering the pleasant humour of the cobler, how innocently merry he was, and free from any designs; that he was a person that labored very hard, and took a great deal of pains for a small livelihood, was pleased out of his princely grace and favor, to allow him a liberal annuity of forty merks a year, for the better support of his jolly humour, and the maintainance of his wife Joan; and that he should be admitted one of his courtiers, and that he might have the freedom of his cellar, whenever he pleased.