‘and send thee well to priefe;’
The tanner would faine haue beene away,
for he wend he had beene a thiefe.
15
‘What art thou, good fellow?’ quoth the tanner,
‘of thee I am in great feare,
For the clothes that thou wearest on thy back
are not for a lord to weare.’
16
‘I neuer stole them,’ said our king,