FOOTNOTES:

56. 40.71. into.72. seeding.173. 2 or 3.176. 2.181. saiy.263. 3.286. 20tye;.292. charges of.316. abotts.343. resting.b, jesting.361. hungry.b, angry.403. 300li:.

56. 40.

71. into.

72. seeding.

173. 2 or 3.

176. 2.

181. saiy.

263. 3.

286. 20tye;.

292. charges of.

316. abotts.

343. resting.b, jesting.

361. hungry.b, angry.

403. 300li:.

11. would ride.13. hart: and dainty.14. Unto.24. him turn.26. late in dark.34. miller, your way you have lost.36. not likely.41, 51, 131. the king.44. but some.45. light thee not down.46. Lest that: knock thy.52. I lack.53. one groat.55. discharge all that.66. I will.71. unto.72. seething.73. after him the.83. goodwanting.84. for to85. prethee.86. Shew me.92. thus he.94. of my.95. here offered.102. this youth’s.103. and eke by.105. Yes.106. When he doth speak.113. wil have laid on.114. hempten.116. with no.122. within.123. Or art.124. I pray, quoth.125. or.134. With a hot bag-pudding.141. I drink thee.142. courtnols where ever they be.143. Ile pledge you: thank you.144. For your.145. to your.146. Do so, quoth Richard, but.153. pasty then brought she forth.154. but fir.155. then said our.171. said our.172. said Richard.174. wondrous fat.175. But prethee.181. not then said.183. him then.186. seek out.191. they espy’d.196. should have been.201. fearfull and.204. would have cut off.205. But his kind curtesie there to.206. him a living.211. came home.213. and pastime.214. this his progresse along by.215. this he.216. Mansfields sport.223. our last.224. both be my guests.226. with this.231. kings pleasantnesse.233. there was sent: on the.234. Which had many times been in.236. message orderly.242. ownewanting.244. gallant young.245. he greets you all.252. this is.253. said, faith.254. to bewanting.263. here’s: greatwanting.265. to your.275. in each.276. gift: greatwanting.281. When as: thus did.283. we must: though wee sell.292. charges for.294. elsewanting.301. rode they.305. hand.312. his brave.321. how should.322. mine own.323. doewanting: me that prethee Dick.324. How we: did make.325. happie: then.326. our king.331. laught.332. both by.334. so orderly.336. the folks were sate at the side-board.341. in princely.343. jesting then they.345. wine, ale.346. you all for your country cheere.353. I doe think.356. ’Tis.361. Why, art thou angry.363. ale and wine.364. Y’are.372. If a man could get one hot.373. hose.374. forwanting.375. made a.376. ’Tis: you must.385. Here with.386. their hearts.391. did the king give.393. ladies free.395. she will.406. bid you.bis printed with the long lines broken into two.

11. would ride.

13. hart: and dainty.

14. Unto.

24. him turn.

26. late in dark.

34. miller, your way you have lost.

36. not likely.

41, 51, 131. the king.

44. but some.

45. light thee not down.

46. Lest that: knock thy.

52. I lack.

53. one groat.

55. discharge all that.

66. I will.

71. unto.

72. seething.

73. after him the.

83. goodwanting.

84. for to

85. prethee.

86. Shew me.

92. thus he.

94. of my.

95. here offered.

102. this youth’s.

103. and eke by.

105. Yes.

106. When he doth speak.

113. wil have laid on.

114. hempten.

116. with no.

122. within.

123. Or art.

124. I pray, quoth.

125. or.

134. With a hot bag-pudding.

141. I drink thee.

142. courtnols where ever they be.

143. Ile pledge you: thank you.

144. For your.

145. to your.

146. Do so, quoth Richard, but.

153. pasty then brought she forth.

154. but fir.

155. then said our.

171. said our.

172. said Richard.

174. wondrous fat.

175. But prethee.

181. not then said.

183. him then.

186. seek out.

191. they espy’d.

196. should have been.

201. fearfull and.

204. would have cut off.

205. But his kind curtesie there to.

206. him a living.

211. came home.

213. and pastime.

214. this his progresse along by.

215. this he.

216. Mansfields sport.

223. our last.

224. both be my guests.

226. with this.

231. kings pleasantnesse.

233. there was sent: on the.

234. Which had many times been in.

236. message orderly.

242. ownewanting.

244. gallant young.

245. he greets you all.

252. this is.

253. said, faith.

254. to bewanting.

263. here’s: greatwanting.

265. to your.

275. in each.

276. gift: greatwanting.

281. When as: thus did.

283. we must: though wee sell.

292. charges for.

294. elsewanting.

301. rode they.

305. hand.

312. his brave.

321. how should.

322. mine own.

323. doewanting: me that prethee Dick.

324. How we: did make.

325. happie: then.

326. our king.

331. laught.

332. both by.

334. so orderly.

336. the folks were sate at the side-board.

341. in princely.

343. jesting then they.

345. wine, ale.

346. you all for your country cheere.

353. I doe think.

356. ’Tis.

361. Why, art thou angry.

363. ale and wine.

364. Y’are.

372. If a man could get one hot.

373. hose.

374. forwanting.

375. made a.

376. ’Tis: you must.

385. Here with.

386. their hearts.

391. did the king give.

393. ladies free.

395. she will.

406. bid you.

bis printed with the long lines broken into two.

FOOTNOTES:[60]1599, August 28, two plays, being the first and second part of [Thomas Heywood’s] ‘Edward the IIIJthand the Tanner of Tamworth,’ etc. Arber, III, 147.[61]See an appendix to this ballad. White’s edition has verbal variations from the earlier, and supplies three lines and a half-line which have been cut off in the Bodleian copy of Danter. Heber had a copy of ‘King Edward 4th and the Tanner,’ printed by Edward Allde (1602-23), whether the “history” or the “ballad” does not appear.[62]Printed by Ritson, Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry, 1791, p. 57. Given in an appendix.[63]“Seemingly,” says Mr Chappell, “not one bound up with the collection of ballads.”Selden, in the second edition of his Titles of Honor (for so he chooses to spell), 1631, p. 836, remarks: Nor is that old pamphlet of the Tanner of Tamworth and King Edward the Fourth so contemptible but that wee may thence note also an observable passage wherein the use of making Esquires by giving collars is expressed. He then quotes two stanzas from the history:‘A coller! a coller!’ our king gan cry;Quoth the tanner, It will breed sorrow;For after a coller commeth a halter,I trow I shall be hangd to morrow.‘Be not afraid, tanner,’ said our king;‘I tell thee, so mought I thee,Lo, here I make thee the best esquireThat is in the North Countrie!’(This passage is not in the first edition, of 1614, as I am informed by Mr Macmath, who has copied it for me.) Percy says that he has “restored” one of his stanzas from the last of these two. The restoration might as well have been made from Danter’s history, which he was using. There is a trifling variation from Danter in the fourth verse, as given by Selden and repeated by Percy, which is found in White’s edition.[64]‘The King and the Barker’ is less extravagant and more rational here; the king simply orders the barker ‘a hundred shilling in his purse.’ But both the esquiring (knighting) and the estate are found in still older poems which remain to be mentioned.[65]A pervasive boorishness, with some coarse pleasantry, distinguishes the seventeenth-century tales disadvantageously from the older ones.[66]There is an entry of ‘Miller and King’ (among 128 ballads), December 14, 1624; another entry, June 30, 1625: Stationers’ Registers, Arber, IV, 131, 143. The broadside is in many of the collections: ‘A pleasant ballad of King Henry second and the Miller of Mansfield,’ Roxburghe, I, 178, 228, III, 853, the first reprinted by Chappell, Roxburghe Ballads, I, 537; Pepys, I, 528, No 272; Bagford, II, 25; Wood, 401, fol. 5 b, ‘A pleasant new ballad of the Miller of Mansfield in Sherwood and K. Henry the Second,’ Wood, 254, iv, ‘The pleasant history of the Miller of Mansfield,’ etc., dated 1655; Crawford, No 491. Also, ‘Kinge and Miller,’ Percy MS., p. 235, Hales and Furnivall, II, 147 (see Appendix); Percy’s Reliques, 1765, III, 179, the MS. copy “with corrections” from the Pepys.—Not in the ballad-stanza.[67]John the Reeve is mentioned (in conjunction with Rauf Coilyear) by G. Douglas, Palice of Honour, 1501, Small, I, 65, v. 3, and by Dunbar, about 1510, Small, I, 105, v. 33; John the Reeve again by Lindsay, The Complaynt of the Papingo, 1530, Chalmers, I, 318.[68]Reprinted in Laing’s Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland, from the edition of St Andrews, 1572; thence in Charlemagne Romances, No 6, ed. S. J. Herrtage, Early English Text Society, 1882. As to the date, see Max Tonndorf, Rauf Coilyear, Halle a. S. 1893, p. 13 ff.[69]So far 767 verses of 975: the rest is not pertinent and is very poor stuff. ‘Rauf Coilyear’ is a clever piece, but I cannot think with Mr Herrtage that it is “quite original.” Its exaggerations suggest a second hand; the author means to pepper higher with his churl’s discourtesy than had been done before. The ‘marshalling’ in 183-86 recalls ‘John the Reeve,’ 342-50.[70]Printed in Hartshorne’s Ancient Metrical Tales, p. 35. Professor Kittredge has called my attention to a stanza of Occleve’s which shows that the belief that Edward III went about in disguise among his subjects prevailed not long after the king’s death.O worthy kyng benigne, Edwarde the laste,Thow hadest ofte in thyne hart a drede impressedeWhiche that thyne humble goste fulle sore agaste,And to knowe yf thow cursed were or blessede,Amonge the peple ofte hast thow the dressedeInto the contrey, in symple aray alone,To heere what men seide of thy persone.Occleve, De Regimine Principum,ed. Wright (Roxb. Club), p. 92.[71]So John the Reeve; five or six times in each.[72]Printed in The British Bibliographer, IV, 81, thence in Hartshorne’s Metrical Tales, p. 293, and, with some improvements from the MS., in Hazlitt’s Early Popular Poetry, I, 11. ‘The King and the Hermit’ is told as ‘the romans says,’ v. 15. It is, as Scott has explained, the source of a charming chapter (the sixteenth of the first volume) of ‘Ivanhoe.’ There are many agreements with ‘The King and the Shepherd.’[73]Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, ed. Brewer, Speculum Ecclesiæ, IV, 213-15, about 1216.[74]See Geoffrey of Monmouth, Hist. Reg. Brit., vi, 12, Wace, Roman de Brut, 7111-44, ed. Le Roux de Lincy, I, 329, Layamon’s Brut, 14297-332, Madden, II, 174 f.; and for other drinking-calls besides these, Wace, Roman de Rou, Part iii, 7357-60, ed. Andresen, II, 320.[75]Preface to ‘The King and Miller of Mansfield.’[76]1578, September 25, licensed to Ric. Jones, ‘A merry Songe of a Kinge and a Shepherd:’ Arber, II, 338.1624, December 14, to Master Pavier and others, among 128 ballads, ‘King and Shepperd:’ Arber, IV, 131.Wood, 401, fol. 1 b; Douce, I, fol. I b; Euing, Nos 331, 332; Pepys, I, 76, No 36, I, 506, No 260; Crawford, No 648; Roxburghe, I, 504, printed by Chappell, III, 210.[77]This is as old as Asser; Annales, Wise, Oxford, 1722, p. 30.[78]‘King James and the Tinker,’ Douce, III, fol. 126 b, fol. 136 b; no printer, place, or date. ‘King James the First and the Tinker,’ Garland of Mirth and Delight; no place or date. The same: ‘King James and the Tinkler,’ Dixon, in Richardson’s Borderer’s Table-Book, VII, 7, and Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs, etc., p. 109, Percy Society, vol. xvii. ‘James V. and the Tinker,’ A. Small, Interesting Roman Antiquities recently discovered in Fife, p. 283. ‘King James the First and the fortunate Tinker,’ The King and Tinker’s Garland, containing three excellent songs, Sheffield, 1745, Halliwell, Notices of Fugitive Tracts, p. 29, No 36, Percy Society, vol. xxix (not seen). ‘The King and the Tinkler,’ arifacimento, in Maidment’s Scotish Ballads and Songs, 1859, p. 92; Kinloch MSS, V, 293.[79]‘The Loyal Forrister, or Royal Pastime,’ printed for C. Bates in Pye-Corner (c. 1696), Euing, No 156. ‘King William and his Forrester,’ no imprint, c. 1690-94, Crawford, No 1421. ‘The King and the Forrester,’ Roxburghe, III, 790, Ebsworth VII, 763 (Bow Church-Yard?). ‘King William going a hunting,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 101, from tradition.[80]‘The Royal Frolick,’ etc., Pepys, II, 313, in Ebsworth’s Roxburghe Ballads, VII, 756.[81]‘The Royal Recreation, or A Second Part, containing the passages between the Farmer and his Wife at their return home, where they found the King with his Noble Retinue.’ Pepys, II, 326, Roxburghe, II, 397, Ebsworth, VII, 761.[82]‘The King and the Cobler.’ Charles Dennison, at the sign of the Stationers’ Arms within Aldgate (1685-89, Chappell). Wood, 254, xi; Pepys, Penny Merriments, vol. i; Halliwell, Notices of Popular Histories, p. 48, Percy Society, vol. xxiii, Newcastle, without date; Manchester Penny Histories (last quarter of the eighteenth century), Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, p. 482, No 6.[83]Kulda, Moravské n. pohádky, etc., 1874, I, 56, No 20, in Wenzig, Westslavischer Märchenschatz, p. 179.Tonndorf, in the dissertation already cited, remarks with truth that meetings of king and subject (or the like) are quite regularly a sequel or incident of a hunt, and refers to Grimms, Deutsche Sagen, Nos 550, 563, 566; Cardonne, Mélanges de Littérature orientale, pp. 68, 87, 110; Grässe, Gesta Romanorum, cap. 56, I, 87, Anhang, No 16, II, 198; Othonis Melandri Ioco-Seria, No 338, p. 292, ed. Frankfort, 1617. In four of these cases the noble person loses his way, and has to seek hospitality. In Deutsche Sagen, No 566, we have a charcoal-burner who relieves a prince’s hunger and is afterwards entertained at the prince’s table.

[60]1599, August 28, two plays, being the first and second part of [Thomas Heywood’s] ‘Edward the IIIJthand the Tanner of Tamworth,’ etc. Arber, III, 147.

[61]See an appendix to this ballad. White’s edition has verbal variations from the earlier, and supplies three lines and a half-line which have been cut off in the Bodleian copy of Danter. Heber had a copy of ‘King Edward 4th and the Tanner,’ printed by Edward Allde (1602-23), whether the “history” or the “ballad” does not appear.

[62]Printed by Ritson, Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry, 1791, p. 57. Given in an appendix.

[63]“Seemingly,” says Mr Chappell, “not one bound up with the collection of ballads.”Selden, in the second edition of his Titles of Honor (for so he chooses to spell), 1631, p. 836, remarks: Nor is that old pamphlet of the Tanner of Tamworth and King Edward the Fourth so contemptible but that wee may thence note also an observable passage wherein the use of making Esquires by giving collars is expressed. He then quotes two stanzas from the history:‘A coller! a coller!’ our king gan cry;Quoth the tanner, It will breed sorrow;For after a coller commeth a halter,I trow I shall be hangd to morrow.‘Be not afraid, tanner,’ said our king;‘I tell thee, so mought I thee,Lo, here I make thee the best esquireThat is in the North Countrie!’(This passage is not in the first edition, of 1614, as I am informed by Mr Macmath, who has copied it for me.) Percy says that he has “restored” one of his stanzas from the last of these two. The restoration might as well have been made from Danter’s history, which he was using. There is a trifling variation from Danter in the fourth verse, as given by Selden and repeated by Percy, which is found in White’s edition.

[63]“Seemingly,” says Mr Chappell, “not one bound up with the collection of ballads.”

Selden, in the second edition of his Titles of Honor (for so he chooses to spell), 1631, p. 836, remarks: Nor is that old pamphlet of the Tanner of Tamworth and King Edward the Fourth so contemptible but that wee may thence note also an observable passage wherein the use of making Esquires by giving collars is expressed. He then quotes two stanzas from the history:

‘A coller! a coller!’ our king gan cry;Quoth the tanner, It will breed sorrow;For after a coller commeth a halter,I trow I shall be hangd to morrow.‘Be not afraid, tanner,’ said our king;‘I tell thee, so mought I thee,Lo, here I make thee the best esquireThat is in the North Countrie!’

‘A coller! a coller!’ our king gan cry;Quoth the tanner, It will breed sorrow;For after a coller commeth a halter,I trow I shall be hangd to morrow.

‘A coller! a coller!’ our king gan cry;

Quoth the tanner, It will breed sorrow;

For after a coller commeth a halter,

I trow I shall be hangd to morrow.

‘Be not afraid, tanner,’ said our king;‘I tell thee, so mought I thee,Lo, here I make thee the best esquireThat is in the North Countrie!’

‘Be not afraid, tanner,’ said our king;

‘I tell thee, so mought I thee,

Lo, here I make thee the best esquire

That is in the North Countrie!’

(This passage is not in the first edition, of 1614, as I am informed by Mr Macmath, who has copied it for me.) Percy says that he has “restored” one of his stanzas from the last of these two. The restoration might as well have been made from Danter’s history, which he was using. There is a trifling variation from Danter in the fourth verse, as given by Selden and repeated by Percy, which is found in White’s edition.

[64]‘The King and the Barker’ is less extravagant and more rational here; the king simply orders the barker ‘a hundred shilling in his purse.’ But both the esquiring (knighting) and the estate are found in still older poems which remain to be mentioned.

[65]A pervasive boorishness, with some coarse pleasantry, distinguishes the seventeenth-century tales disadvantageously from the older ones.

[66]There is an entry of ‘Miller and King’ (among 128 ballads), December 14, 1624; another entry, June 30, 1625: Stationers’ Registers, Arber, IV, 131, 143. The broadside is in many of the collections: ‘A pleasant ballad of King Henry second and the Miller of Mansfield,’ Roxburghe, I, 178, 228, III, 853, the first reprinted by Chappell, Roxburghe Ballads, I, 537; Pepys, I, 528, No 272; Bagford, II, 25; Wood, 401, fol. 5 b, ‘A pleasant new ballad of the Miller of Mansfield in Sherwood and K. Henry the Second,’ Wood, 254, iv, ‘The pleasant history of the Miller of Mansfield,’ etc., dated 1655; Crawford, No 491. Also, ‘Kinge and Miller,’ Percy MS., p. 235, Hales and Furnivall, II, 147 (see Appendix); Percy’s Reliques, 1765, III, 179, the MS. copy “with corrections” from the Pepys.—Not in the ballad-stanza.

[67]John the Reeve is mentioned (in conjunction with Rauf Coilyear) by G. Douglas, Palice of Honour, 1501, Small, I, 65, v. 3, and by Dunbar, about 1510, Small, I, 105, v. 33; John the Reeve again by Lindsay, The Complaynt of the Papingo, 1530, Chalmers, I, 318.

[68]Reprinted in Laing’s Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland, from the edition of St Andrews, 1572; thence in Charlemagne Romances, No 6, ed. S. J. Herrtage, Early English Text Society, 1882. As to the date, see Max Tonndorf, Rauf Coilyear, Halle a. S. 1893, p. 13 ff.

[69]So far 767 verses of 975: the rest is not pertinent and is very poor stuff. ‘Rauf Coilyear’ is a clever piece, but I cannot think with Mr Herrtage that it is “quite original.” Its exaggerations suggest a second hand; the author means to pepper higher with his churl’s discourtesy than had been done before. The ‘marshalling’ in 183-86 recalls ‘John the Reeve,’ 342-50.

[70]Printed in Hartshorne’s Ancient Metrical Tales, p. 35. Professor Kittredge has called my attention to a stanza of Occleve’s which shows that the belief that Edward III went about in disguise among his subjects prevailed not long after the king’s death.O worthy kyng benigne, Edwarde the laste,Thow hadest ofte in thyne hart a drede impressedeWhiche that thyne humble goste fulle sore agaste,And to knowe yf thow cursed were or blessede,Amonge the peple ofte hast thow the dressedeInto the contrey, in symple aray alone,To heere what men seide of thy persone.Occleve, De Regimine Principum,ed. Wright (Roxb. Club), p. 92.

O worthy kyng benigne, Edwarde the laste,Thow hadest ofte in thyne hart a drede impressedeWhiche that thyne humble goste fulle sore agaste,And to knowe yf thow cursed were or blessede,Amonge the peple ofte hast thow the dressedeInto the contrey, in symple aray alone,To heere what men seide of thy persone.

O worthy kyng benigne, Edwarde the laste,

Thow hadest ofte in thyne hart a drede impressede

Whiche that thyne humble goste fulle sore agaste,

And to knowe yf thow cursed were or blessede,

Amonge the peple ofte hast thow the dressede

Into the contrey, in symple aray alone,

To heere what men seide of thy persone.

Occleve, De Regimine Principum,ed. Wright (Roxb. Club), p. 92.

[71]So John the Reeve; five or six times in each.

[72]Printed in The British Bibliographer, IV, 81, thence in Hartshorne’s Metrical Tales, p. 293, and, with some improvements from the MS., in Hazlitt’s Early Popular Poetry, I, 11. ‘The King and the Hermit’ is told as ‘the romans says,’ v. 15. It is, as Scott has explained, the source of a charming chapter (the sixteenth of the first volume) of ‘Ivanhoe.’ There are many agreements with ‘The King and the Shepherd.’

[73]Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, ed. Brewer, Speculum Ecclesiæ, IV, 213-15, about 1216.

[74]See Geoffrey of Monmouth, Hist. Reg. Brit., vi, 12, Wace, Roman de Brut, 7111-44, ed. Le Roux de Lincy, I, 329, Layamon’s Brut, 14297-332, Madden, II, 174 f.; and for other drinking-calls besides these, Wace, Roman de Rou, Part iii, 7357-60, ed. Andresen, II, 320.

[75]Preface to ‘The King and Miller of Mansfield.’

[76]1578, September 25, licensed to Ric. Jones, ‘A merry Songe of a Kinge and a Shepherd:’ Arber, II, 338.1624, December 14, to Master Pavier and others, among 128 ballads, ‘King and Shepperd:’ Arber, IV, 131.Wood, 401, fol. 1 b; Douce, I, fol. I b; Euing, Nos 331, 332; Pepys, I, 76, No 36, I, 506, No 260; Crawford, No 648; Roxburghe, I, 504, printed by Chappell, III, 210.

[76]1578, September 25, licensed to Ric. Jones, ‘A merry Songe of a Kinge and a Shepherd:’ Arber, II, 338.

1624, December 14, to Master Pavier and others, among 128 ballads, ‘King and Shepperd:’ Arber, IV, 131.

Wood, 401, fol. 1 b; Douce, I, fol. I b; Euing, Nos 331, 332; Pepys, I, 76, No 36, I, 506, No 260; Crawford, No 648; Roxburghe, I, 504, printed by Chappell, III, 210.

[77]This is as old as Asser; Annales, Wise, Oxford, 1722, p. 30.

[78]‘King James and the Tinker,’ Douce, III, fol. 126 b, fol. 136 b; no printer, place, or date. ‘King James the First and the Tinker,’ Garland of Mirth and Delight; no place or date. The same: ‘King James and the Tinkler,’ Dixon, in Richardson’s Borderer’s Table-Book, VII, 7, and Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs, etc., p. 109, Percy Society, vol. xvii. ‘James V. and the Tinker,’ A. Small, Interesting Roman Antiquities recently discovered in Fife, p. 283. ‘King James the First and the fortunate Tinker,’ The King and Tinker’s Garland, containing three excellent songs, Sheffield, 1745, Halliwell, Notices of Fugitive Tracts, p. 29, No 36, Percy Society, vol. xxix (not seen). ‘The King and the Tinkler,’ arifacimento, in Maidment’s Scotish Ballads and Songs, 1859, p. 92; Kinloch MSS, V, 293.

[79]‘The Loyal Forrister, or Royal Pastime,’ printed for C. Bates in Pye-Corner (c. 1696), Euing, No 156. ‘King William and his Forrester,’ no imprint, c. 1690-94, Crawford, No 1421. ‘The King and the Forrester,’ Roxburghe, III, 790, Ebsworth VII, 763 (Bow Church-Yard?). ‘King William going a hunting,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 101, from tradition.

[80]‘The Royal Frolick,’ etc., Pepys, II, 313, in Ebsworth’s Roxburghe Ballads, VII, 756.

[81]‘The Royal Recreation, or A Second Part, containing the passages between the Farmer and his Wife at their return home, where they found the King with his Noble Retinue.’ Pepys, II, 326, Roxburghe, II, 397, Ebsworth, VII, 761.

[82]‘The King and the Cobler.’ Charles Dennison, at the sign of the Stationers’ Arms within Aldgate (1685-89, Chappell). Wood, 254, xi; Pepys, Penny Merriments, vol. i; Halliwell, Notices of Popular Histories, p. 48, Percy Society, vol. xxiii, Newcastle, without date; Manchester Penny Histories (last quarter of the eighteenth century), Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, p. 482, No 6.

[83]Kulda, Moravské n. pohádky, etc., 1874, I, 56, No 20, in Wenzig, Westslavischer Märchenschatz, p. 179.Tonndorf, in the dissertation already cited, remarks with truth that meetings of king and subject (or the like) are quite regularly a sequel or incident of a hunt, and refers to Grimms, Deutsche Sagen, Nos 550, 563, 566; Cardonne, Mélanges de Littérature orientale, pp. 68, 87, 110; Grässe, Gesta Romanorum, cap. 56, I, 87, Anhang, No 16, II, 198; Othonis Melandri Ioco-Seria, No 338, p. 292, ed. Frankfort, 1617. In four of these cases the noble person loses his way, and has to seek hospitality. In Deutsche Sagen, No 566, we have a charcoal-burner who relieves a prince’s hunger and is afterwards entertained at the prince’s table.

[83]Kulda, Moravské n. pohádky, etc., 1874, I, 56, No 20, in Wenzig, Westslavischer Märchenschatz, p. 179.

Tonndorf, in the dissertation already cited, remarks with truth that meetings of king and subject (or the like) are quite regularly a sequel or incident of a hunt, and refers to Grimms, Deutsche Sagen, Nos 550, 563, 566; Cardonne, Mélanges de Littérature orientale, pp. 68, 87, 110; Grässe, Gesta Romanorum, cap. 56, I, 87, Anhang, No 16, II, 198; Othonis Melandri Ioco-Seria, No 338, p. 292, ed. Frankfort, 1617. In four of these cases the noble person loses his way, and has to seek hospitality. In Deutsche Sagen, No 566, we have a charcoal-burner who relieves a prince’s hunger and is afterwards entertained at the prince’s table.

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