KING IND THE COBLER. (illegible text) At which ſpeech of the cobler, the king laugh- ed and told him he would be mindful to obſerve his direction. Whereupon the cobler kindled the fire, and fetch- ed out a brown loaf, from which he cut in fully toſt, which he let a baking at the fire, then he brought ' out his Cheſhire cheeſe. Come ſaid he will ou ' eat ſome Cheſhire cheeſe ; there is as good fellow- ' ſhip in tating us drinking.' This made the king admire the hone freedom of the cobler ſo having eaten a bit, the cobler be- gun health to all true bears, and merry com- sons; at which the king ſmiling, ſaid, 'Good mer- ry friend, I'll pledge thee.' In this manner they ate and drank together until it was almoſt break of day. The cabler being very free of his liquor, and delighting the king with fe- veral of his old flories, in ſo much, that the king was highly pleaſed with the manner of the cobler's entertainment when on a ſudden the cobler's wife Joan began to make: 'I, fnith, ſayſ the cobler, you must be gone, my wife Joan begins to grum- lle, ſhe will awake preſently, and I would not for half the shoes in my flop lie would find you lete. Solating the ling by the hand, he led him up Rairs, fayler. Farewell honeft blade, it fellnet belang Selore I take a holy any, and come to for the cuurt. -You ſhall be kindly welcome,' replied the king. So they pete the king on his way to White all and the coller to lau cellar and there having put all things to rights before his wife Joun got up, he fell to work ngain, whiſtling and finging as werty a le uled to do, being much fatisfied that he had hapead on to good and jovial a companion and all reling in his thoughts how merry he ſhould be when he came to court
