The Prince and the Pauper

How it begins

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 JOYF…