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 For I’ve travelld the country

And land many ways,

Yet, I never saw a King

In all my whole days.

Oh! then, said the King,

If you can but ride,

It's here in the ale-house

We’ll not long abide;

You’ll get up behind me

And you I will bring

Into the Royal Presence

of Jamie your King.

But, perhaps, said the Tinkler,

they'll be so grandly drest,

That I'll not know the king

Among all the rest:

They will but I tell you,

When you come there.

The king he'll be covered

And the Nobles all bare.

Then up got the Tinkler,

And hosted the black,

With his Budgets of leather

And tools on his back;