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 'Nay, quoth the cobbler, you muſt know that it is from you that I muſt have that favour, if it be conferred upon me. 'Ceaſe your prating, quoth Joan, and get you to bed, that you may riſe in the morning, and fall to your buſineſs, for this wicked courſe of life will never do.' With theſe and other like reprimands, ſhe conquered poor Criſpin, who for quietneſs ſake, forthwith went to bed; where we will leave him to take his reſt. Let us now return to the court and ſay ſomething of what paſt between the king, queen, and nobles, relating to that day's comical adventure.

OW it is to be noticed, that the cobbler was no ſooner gone, but the king with his nobles began to renew their mirth, by rehearſing the many comical fancies and pleaſant pranks with which the cobbler entertained them; and what added the more to their recreation and ſport, was a certain lord, who put himſelf into a country habit, and imitated the cobbler ſo to the life, that the king & the reſt of the nobles fell into a fit of laughter, which laſted for a conſiderable time without any intermiſſion; whereupon the queen with her maids of honour, came to enquire into the cauſe of ſuch general mirth.

'My liege, ſaid the queen, I'm glad to hear you and your nobles ſo merry; and would be as glad to know what fancies have been the occaſion of ſo much laughter.' 'My lady, quoth the king, we have had the company of a comical cobbler, the like of whom never came to court ſince