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 KING AND THE COBLER 13 ' Nay, quoth the cobler, You muſt know that it is from you that I maſt have that favour, if it ' be conferred upon me. Ceaſe our prutting quoth Joan, and get you to bed, that you may rile in the morning and fall to your buſineſs, for this wicked courſe of lite will never do. With theſe another like reprimands, the conquered poor Criſpin, who for quietneſs fake, Perth with went to bed; where we will leave him to take his raft. 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. CHAP. II. How the Queen upon bearing much mind a Centrs, came with her manut of honour to know the care thoreuſ, and bow cardinal Wolſey, the proud pre- lare, curbed the king for being, as be ſaid, 100 free with a poor Cooler.

Now it is to be noticed that the cabler was no ſooner gone, bat the king with his nobles, began to renew their mith, by rehearſing the ma- ny comical fancies and pleuſant pranks with which the cobler entertained them; and what added the more to their recreation and ſport waſ a certain lord, who put himſelf into a coantry habit, and i- mitated the cabler ſo to the life, that toe king and the reſt of the nobles ſhall 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 mirto ' My leis, ſaid the queen, I'm glad to hear you ' and your nobleſ ſo merry: and wou does sind ' to knew what recies have been the question ' of ſo much Inughter. My Lady, geoth the ' king, we have led the company of incomioni cob ' lot, the like of whom never ane te court ſince