‘I know not what they be;’

‘Lo, here thou maist see one;’ quoth the tanner,

‘here lyeth one vnder me.

19

‘Knowst thou not a cow-hide,’ quoth the tanner,

‘and hast gone so long to schoole?

If euer thou come to dwell in the country,

thou wilt be made a foole.’

20

‘What craftsman are you?’ said our king,