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22 When I'm at work within my stall,

 Upon him I shall think;

His kindness I to mind will call,

 Whene’er I eat or drink.

His kindness was to me so great,

 The like was never known,

His kindness I shall still repeat,

 And so shall my wife Joan.

I’ll laugh when I sit in my stall,

 And merrily, will sing,

That I with my poor last and awl,

 Am fellow with the king:

But it is more, I must confess,

 Than I at first did know;

But Harry Tudor ne'ertheless,

 Resolves st shall be so.

And now farewell unto Whitehall,

 I homeward must retire,

To sing and whistle in my stall,

 My Soan will me desire.

I do but think how she will laugh,

 When she hears of this thing, 

That who drank her nut-brown ale,

 Was England's royal King.