Meanwhile, in palace, Tom'sfate ran thruogh different paths, although no less complicated. Once Tom was left alone, turned himself this way and that before the mirror, admiring its delicate smell.
He drew the sword and bowed, kissing the blade as knights did.
He tried each of the sumptouos chairs and ate all we wanted.
Finally, it ocurred to him that the Prince was long gone.
He began to fear he would be discovered and punish and resolved to fly.
But when he opened the door, he ran across six gorgeous gentlemen servants and two Young pages that started bowing.
Tom steppped back and closed the door frightened.
After a Little while, a page announced him the visit of Lady Jane Grey. When the girl came in she was greatly surprised, as Tom knelt down and said:
- Have mercy, milady! I am not Prince Edward.I am only Tom Canty, from London Bridge.I beg you to take me where the Prince is, he will restore me my rags.
Lady Jane fled away in fright, opened the door and escaped. In very few minutes the news from menial.
From lord to lord and in the palace they all thought the Prince had gone mad.
.He knelt down! was the comment.
He knelt down in front of her, When the rumors spread trought the hig civil servants of the court, a Chamberlain commnicated in the name of the King that, was the false and that nobody should carry it abroad or repeat it.
Finally, Tom came out on a corridor. He could not stay locked in his apartments. Two doctors and some servants were following him in silence.
The nobles he encountered on his way bowed courteusly to him.He soon found himself in a noble apartment.
There, reclined on a diván there dressed with luxurious and rather frayed clothes.
One of his legs,completely bandaged was resting on a pillow. That invalid was the dread King Henry VIII,
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