20 put the cobler into great amazement at first; but presently recovering himself, he looked more wistfully upon Harry Tudor, which soon knowing him to be the king whom he saw in the presence chamber, though in another habit, be immediately fell upon his knees, saying,
May it please your grace, may it please
your highness, I am a poor honest cobler, and mean no harm.
No, no, said the king, nor shall receive
any here, I assure you.
He commanded him therefore to rise
and though he knew him to be the king, yet he should use the same freedom with him as he did before, when he mended the heel of his shoe.
This kind speech of the king’s, and
three or four glasses of wine, made the cobler to be in as good a humour as he was before, telling the king several of his pretty stories, and singing some of his best songs, very much to the satisfac- tion of the king and all his nobles.
