362. that is a thing will.
381. will thee give.
382. with the: beside.
383. five hundred.
The Pepys copy was printed for J. W[right], J. C[larke], W. T[hackeray], and T. P[assinger]. Euing, No 273, for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke; No 274, for F. Coles, T. Vere, and W. Gilbertson (as a). Heber’s copy for F. Coles (1646-74).
APPENDIX
I
THE KING AND THE BARKER
Library of the University of Cambridge, MS. Ee. iv, 35. 1, fol. 19 b. Written mostly in couplets of long lines, sometimes in stanzas of four short lines, with omissions, transpositions, and other faults.
It will be observed that neither in this tale nor in the “history” which follows does the tanner become aware that he has been dealing with “our kyng.” In both he calls the king “good fellow” to the very last. What happens at the meeting with Lord Basset, 30, is not made quite intelligible. It must be that Lord Basset and his men fall on their knees, but the conviction that “this” is the king seems to make no great difference in the tanner’s bearing.