‘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,