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THE GREAT SEAL (frontispiece) THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER "SPLENDID PAGEANTS AND GREAT BONFIRES" TOM’S EARLY LIFE OFFAL COURT "WITH ANY MISERABLE CRUST" "HE OFTEN READ THE PRIEST’S BOOKS" "SAW POOR ANNE ASKEW BURNED" "BROUGHT THEIR PERPLEXITIES TO TOM" "LONGING FOR THE PORK-PIES” TOM’S MEETING WITH THE PRINCE "AT TEMPLE BAR" "LET HIM IN" "HOW OLD BE THESE "DOFF THY RAGS, AND DON THESE SPLENDORS" "I SALUTE YOUR GRACIOUS HIGHNESS!” THE PRINCE’S TROUBLES BEGIN "SET UPON BY DOGS" "A DRUNKEN RUFFIAN COLLARED HIM" TOM AS A PATRICIAN "NEXT HE DREW THE SWORD" "RESOLVED TO FLY" "THE BOY WAS ON HIS KNEES" "NOBLES WALKED UPON EACH SIDE OF HIM" "HE DROPPED UPON HIS KNEES" "HE TURNED WITH JOYFUL FACE" "THE PHYSICIAN BOWED LOW" "THE KING FELL BACK UPON HIS COUCH" "IS THIS MAN TO LIVE FOREVER?" TOM RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS "PRITHEE, INSIST NOT" "THE LORD ST. JOHN MADE REVERENCE" HERTFORD AND THE PRINCESSES "SHE MADE REVERENCE" "OFFERED IT TO HIM ON A GOLDEN SALVER" "THEY MUSED A WHILE" "PEACE MY LORD, THOU UTTEREST TREASON!” "HE BEGAN TO PACE THE FLOOR" TOM’S FIRST ROYAL DINNER "FASTENED A NAPKIN ABOUT HIS NECK" "TOM ATE WITH HIS FINGERS" "HE GRAVELY TOOK A DRAUGHT" "TOM PUT ON THE GREAVES" THE QUESTION OF THE SEAL "EASED HIM BACK UPON HIS PILLOWS" THE RIVER PAGEANT "HALBERDIERS APPEARED IN THE GATEWAY" "TOM CANTY STEPPED INTO VIEW" THE PRINCE IN THE TOILS "A DIM FORM SANK TO THE GROUND" "WHO ART THOU?" "INTO GOOD WIFE CANTY’S ARMS" "BENT HEEDFULLY AND WARILY OVER HIM" "THE PRINCE SPRANG UP" "HURRIED HIM ALONG THE DARK WAY" "HE WASTE NO TIME" AT GUILDHALL "A RICH CANOPY OF STATE" "BEGAN TO LAY ABOUT HIM" "LONG LIVE THE KING!” THE PRINCE AND HIS DELIVERER "OUR FRIENDS THREADED THEIR WAY" "OBJECT LESSONS” IN ENGLISH HISTORY "JOHN CANTY MOVED OFF" "SMOOTHING BACK THE TANGLED CURLS" "PRITHEE, POUR THE WATER" "GO ON—TELL ME THY STORY "THOU HAST BEEN SHAMEFULLY ABUSED" "HE DROPPED ON ONE KNEE" "RISE, SIR MILES HENDON, BARONET" THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PRINCE "HE DROPPED ASLEEP" "THESE BE VERY GOOD AND SOUND" "EXPLAIN, THOU LIMB OF SATAN" "HENDON FOLLOWED AFTER HIM" "LE ROI EST MORT-VIVE LE ROI" "WILT DEIGN TO DELIVER THY COMMANDS?" "LORD OF THE BEDCHAMBER" "A SECRETARY OF STATE" "STOOD AT GRACEFUL EASE" ”’TIS I THAT TAKE THEM" "BUT TAX YOUR MEMORY" TOM AS KING "TOM HAD WANDERED TO A WINDOW" "TOM SCANNED THE PRISONERS" "LET THE PRISONER GO FREE!” "WHAT IS IT THAT THESE HAVE DONE?" "NODDED THEIR RECOGNITION" THE STATE DINNER "A GENTLEMAN BEARING A ROD" "THE CHANCELLOR BETWEEN TWO" "I THANK YOU MY GOOD PEOPLE" "IN THE MIDST OF HIS PAGEANT" FOO-FOO THE FIRST "RUFFIAN FOLLOWED THEIR STEPS" "HE SEIZED A BILLET OF WOOD" "HE WAS SOON ABSORBED IN THINKING" "A GRIM AND UNSIGHTLY PICTURE" "THEY ROARED OUT A ROLLICKING DITTY" "WHILST THE FLAMES LICKED UPWARDS" "THEY WERE WHIPPED AT THE CART’S TAIL" "THOU SHALT NOT" "KNOCKING HOBBS DOWN" "THRONE HIM" THE PRINCE WITH THE TRAMPS "TROOP OF VAGABONDS SET FORWARD" "THEY THREW BONES AND VEGETABLES "WRITHE AND WALLOW IN THE DIRT" "KING FLED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION" "HE STUMBLED ALONG" "WHAT SEEMED TO BE A WARM ROPE" "CUDDLED UP TO THE CALF" THE PRINCE WITH THE PEASANTS "TOOK A GOOD