Nor did he sell his cheese by the wey only, or his cider by the
great, but abased himself with his own hands to take a shoemaker’s
knife (a homely instrument for such a high personage to touch),
and cut it out equally, like a true justiciary, in little pennyworths
that it would do a man good for to look upon. So likewise of his
cider, the poor man might have his moderate draught of it (as
there is a moderation in all things) as well for his doit or his dandiprat
as the rich man for his half-sou or his denier. Not so much, quoth I,
but this tapster’s linen apron, which you wear to protect your apparel
from the imperfections of the spigot, most amply bewrays your lowly
mind. I speak it with tears, too few such noblemen have we that will
draw drink in linen aprons. Why, you are every child’s fellow;