Wednesday, July 03, 2019
Thy Courtesy Is But Small
"King Edward IV and the Tanner of Tamworth," lines 109-120, in Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1872), p. 111:
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The tanner hee tooke his good cowe-hide,
That of the cow was hilt;
And threwe it upon the king's sadèlle,
That was soe fayrelye gilte.
"Now help me up, thou fine fellòwe,
'Tis time that I were gone:
When I come home to Gyllian my wife,
Sheel say I am a gentilmon."
The king he tooke him up by the legge;
The tanner a f** lett fall;
Nowe marrye, goode fellowe, sayd the kyng,
Thy courtesye is but small.
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