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replied she, with all my heart. With this the Cobler applied the remedies and they worked the effect in a few weeks, which being done, they were married. After some few days spent in town, they set forward for the court at Colchester. At length coming there, and the queen understanding she had married nothing but a poor Cobler, fell into distraction, and in wrath hanged herself. The death of the queen pleased the king much, who was glad he had got rid of her so soon. Having buried her, he gave the Cobler one hundred pounds, on condition that he and his lady would quit the Court. The Cobler received it, and promised he would: then setting up his trade in a remote part of the kingdom, they lived many years, he mending shoes, and she spinning thread.
Quoth the sixth boy, I think for a king's daughter she hath spun a very fine thread, but now for my story.
TALE VI.
A Tinker in our town had but one daughter, whose name was Tib, and because her father would not let her marry
