‘it shall not slacke my woe;

For when a noble is in small monie

full soone it is agoe.’

45

‘Dost thou loue to keepe gold?’ quoth the tanner,

the king answered and said, Ye;

‘Then I would thou were my neere kinsman,

for I thinke thou wilt thriue and thee.’

46

Now hath the tanner Brocke, his mare,