Who was carried off when a Child from Aberdeen and sold for a Slave, 254 THE FAMOUS EXPLOITS OF ROBIN HOOD, LITTLE JOHN, AND HIS MERRY MEN ALL, Including an Account of his Birth, Education, and Death, 269 HISTORY OF DR. FAUSTUS Showing his wicked Life and horrid Death, and how he sold himself to the Devil, to have power for twenty-four years to do what he pleased, also many strange things done by him with the assistance of MEPHISTOPHELES, With an account how the Devil came for him at the end of twenty-four years, and tore him to pieces, 286 THE WHOLE LIFE AND DEATH OF LONG MEG Of Westminster, 299 THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF THE LEARNED FRIAR BACON Giving a Particular Account of his Birth, Parentage, with the many Wonderful Things he did in his Lifetime, to the amazement of all the World, 309 THE HISTORY OF THE BLIND BEGGAR OF BETHNAL GREEN, Containing his Birth and Parentage; how he went to the Wars and Lost his Sight, and turned Beggar at Bethnal Green; how he got Riches, and educated his Daughter; of her being Courted by a rich, young Knight; how the Blind Beggar dropt Gold with the Knight's Uncle; of the Knight and the Beggar's Daughter being Married; and, lastly, how the famous Pedigree of the Beggar was discovered, and other Things worthy of Note, 324 THE PLEASANT HISTORY OF POOR ROBIN THE MERRY SADDLER OF WALDEN Showing the Merry Pranks he played during his Apprenticeship, and how he Tricked a Rich Miser, etc. Very diverting for a Winter Evening Fireside, 337 * * * * * AMUSING PROSE CHAP-BOOKS. THE COMICAL HISTORY OF THE KING AND THE COBBLER CONTAINING The Entertaining and Merry Tricks and Droll Frolics played by the Cobbler How he got acquainted with the King, became a Great Man and lived at Court ever after. CHAPTER I. _How King Henry VIII. used to visit the watches in the city and how he became acquainted with a merry, jovial cobbler._ It was the custom of King Henry the Eighth to walk late in the night into the city disguised, to observe and take notice how the constables and watch performed their duty, not only in guarding the city gates, but also in diligently watching the inner parts of the city, that so they might, in a great measure, prevent those disturbances and casualties which too often happen in great and populous cities in the night; and this he did oftentimes, without the least discovery who he was, returning home to Whitehall early in the morning.