19 see you, and therefore I made myself as fine as I could. But I’ll tell thee Harry, when I came to court I was in a peck of troubles how to find you out; but at last I met with a man who told me he knew you very well, and that he would bring me to you, but instead of doing so, he brought me before the King, which had almost frightned me out of my seven senses; but in good faith, added the cobler, I am resolved to be merry with you since I have had the good fortune of meeting with you at last.
Ah! that you shall, replied the King,
we will be as merry as princes
With that he called for a large glass
of wine, and drank to the cobler, the King’s good health.
Good a mercy, said the cobler, honest
Harry, I’ll pledge that health with all my heart.
Now after the cobler had drank about
four or five good healths he began to be merry, and fell a singing his old songs and catches, which pleased the King very much, and made him laugh heartily.
When on a sudden, several of the
nobles came into the cellar, extraordi- narily rich in apparel, who all stood un- covered before Harry Tudor, which
