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Amusing Prose Chap Books
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[14] 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. Now, on his return home through the Strand, he took notice of a certain cobbler who was constantly up at work whistling and singing every morning. The king was resolved to see him and be acquainted with him, in order to which he immediately knocks the heel off his shoe by hitting it against a stone, and having so done, he bounced at the cobbler's stall. "Who's there?" cries the cobbler.
Amusing Prose Chap-Books, Chiefly of Last Century (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Amusing Prose Chap-Books, Chiefly of Last Century OF late years there has been a largely increasing interest on the subject of folklore in its various departments. In such respects there has been a very considerable change in the feelings and tastes of the educated middle-class population of this country, from what there was several generations ago. Formerly the educated classes appeared to think that any thing relating to the tastes or ideas of the common people was of very little interest. And in the course of some two hundred years back, leaving out the present time, the num ber of writers who thought it worth their while to deal with such topics were not much more than a doz...
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John Clare Society Journal, 16 (1997)
The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.
