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So going forward, he came into the
room where the king was, accompanied with several of his nobles who attended him.
As soon as the yeomen had put up by
the arras, he spoke aloud: May it please your Majesty here is one that enquires for Harry Tudor.
The cobler hearing this, thought he
had committed no less than treason: Therefore he up with his heels and ran for it; but not being acquainted with the several turnings and rooms through, which he came, he was soon overtaken, and brought before the king; whom the cobler little thought to be the person he enquired after; therefore, in a trembling condition he fell down upon his knees, saying,
May it please your grace, may it please
your highness, I am a poor cobler, and enquired for one Harry Tudor, who is a very honest fellow, I mended the heel of his shoe not long since, for which he paid me nobly, and gave me two pots to boot, but, I had him afterwards to my celler, where we drank part of a cup of happy ale and were very merry, till my wife Joan began to grumble, which put an end to our merriment for that time;
