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hand rise and pull off his shirt. Then she washed him with warm water from head to foot, putting on him a clean shirt; afterwards she dressed him in his holiday clothes; pinning his laced band in prim.

CHAP. IV,

The Cobler's Reception at Court.
with the Manner of his Behavior
before the King.

THE cobler being thus set forth, strutted through the streets like a crow in a gutter. thinking himself as fine as the best of them all. In this manner he came to court, walking up and down, and staring on every body he met with, not knowing to whom to ask for Harry Tudor At last he espied one, as he thought in the habit of a servant, to whom he made this address, saying.

Dost thou hear, honest fellow, do