‘I tell you, sir, by the rood;’
‘No, thou plaiest as many an vnthrift doth,
thou standst in the mids of thy good.’
17
‘What tidings heare you,’ said our king,
‘as you ride farre and neare?’
‘I heare no tidings,’ quoth the tanner,
‘but that cow-hides are deare.’
18
‘Cow-hides? cow-hides?’ then said our king,