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Master Headley told him , not unkindly , for he had some pity for the spoilt lad , that not the Lord Mayor himself would take his own son with him while yet an apprentice . Tibble Steelman would indeed go to one of the attendants ' tents at the further end of the lists , where repairs to armour and weapons might be needed , and would take an assistant or two , but who they might be must depend on his own choice , and if Giles had any desire to go , he had better don his working dress . In fact , Tibble meant to take Edmund Burgess and one workman for use , and one of the new apprentices for pleasure , letting them change in the middle of the day . The swagger of Giles actually forfeited for him the first turn , which -- though he was no favourite with the men -- would have been granted to his elder years and his relationship to the master ; but on his overbearing demand to enter the boat which was to carry down a little anvil and charcoal furnace , with a few tools , rivets , nails , and horse-shoes , Tibble coolly returned that he needed no such gay birds ; but if Giles chose to be ready in his leathern coat when Stephen Birkenholt came home at midday , mayhap he might change with him . Stephen went joyously in the plainest of attire , though Tibble in fur cap , grimy jerkin , and leathern apron was no elegant steersman ; and Edmund , who was at the age of youthful foppery , shrugged his shoulders a little , and disguised the garments of the smithy with his best flat cap and newest mantle . They kept in the wake of the handsome barge which Master Headley shared with his friend and brother alderman , Master Hope the draper , whose young wife , in a beautiful black velvet hood and shining blue satin kirtle , was evidently petting Dennet to her heart 's content , though the little damsel never lost an opportunity of nodding to her friends in the plainer barge in the rear . The Tudor tilting matches cost no lives , and seldom broke bones .