16^4. pray you. 17^1. thou needs: wilt. 18^1. the king. 18^2. wilt thou. 18^3. nor half pence said the tanner. 19^2. see that you. 20^1. we must needs. 20^2. we must. 20^4. not have. 21^1. he tooke. 22^1. helpe, helpe me up. 23^2. girded. 23^3. then said. 23^4. I’de a laid. 24^2. that he. 28^1. wee must needs now change here. 28^2. well that we mote. 28^4. I doe looke. 29^1. wilt thou. 29^2. wilt thou: on this. 29^3. said the. 29^4. but in gold twenty pound. 30^1. twenty groats. 30^2. I had. 30^3. groats. 31^3. Then five. 34^3. a hundred. 34^4. of their. 35^{1,2}, 36^{1,3}, 37^3. coller. 35^2. that he did cry. 36^1. then _wanting_. 36^2. that is a thing will. 38^1. will thee give. 38^2. with the: beside. 38^3. five hundred. _The Pepys copy was printed for_ J. W[right], J. C[larke], W. T[hackeray], and T. P[assinger]. _Euing, No 273, for_ F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke; _No 274, for_ F. Coles, T. Vere, and W. Gilbertson (_as_ =a=). _Heber’s copy for_ F. Coles (1646-74). APPENDIX I THE KING AND THE BARKER Library of the University of Cambridge, MS. Ee. iv, 35. 1, fol. 19 b. Written mostly in couplets of long lines, sometimes in stanzas of four short lines, with omissions, transpositions, and other faults. It will be observed that neither in this tale nor in the “history” which follows does the tanner become aware that he has been dealing with “our kyng.” In both he calls the king “good fellow” to the very last. What happens at the meeting with Lord Basset, 30, is not made quite intelligible. It must be that Lord Basset and his men fall on their knees, but the conviction that “this” is the king seems to make no great difference in the tanner’s bearing. 1 Well yow here a god borde to make yow all low, How het ffell apon a tyme, or en_e_y man het know? 2 The kyng rod a hontyng, as _þat_ tyme was; Ffor to hont a der_e_ Y trow hes hope was. 3 As he rode, he houer- toke yn the wey A tannar off Dantre, yn a queynte ar_a_ye. 4 Blake kow-heydes sat he apon, the hornys heyng be seyde; The kyng low and had god game to se the tannar reyde. 5 Howr_e_ kyng bad hes men abeyde, _and_ he welde sper of hem the wey; ‘Yffe Y may her_e_ eney now tythyng, Y schall het to yow saye.’ 6 Howr_e_ kyng prekyd _and_ seyde, Ser, God the saffe! The tannar seyde, Well mot yow ffar_e_! 7 ‘God ffellow,’ seyde yowr_e_ kyng, ‘offe on thyng Y þe pray; To Drayton Baset well Y reyde, wych_e_ ys the wey?’ 8 ‘That can Y tell the ffro hens þ_a_t Y stonde; When þow comest to the galow-tre, torne vpon þe lyft honde.’ 9 ‘Gram_e_rcy, ffellow,’ seyde owr_e_ kyng, ‘w_i_t_h_owtyn eney wone, I schall prey the lord Baset thanke the sone.