I’le swear to you plain, if you have your mare,
I look to have some boot.’
29
‘What boot will you ask?’ quoth the tanner,
‘What boot will you ask on this ground?’
‘No pence nor half-pence,’ said our king,
‘but a noble in gold so round.’
30
‘Here’s twenty [good] groats,’ said the tanner,
‘and twenty more I have of thine;