"Butcher's Tale"

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I ran across the initial notes I made a year ago that ended up in this post about "Butcher's Tale," and I discovered that I forgot to mention something.

I didn't (and still don't) understand what the line "But the king's shilling is now my fee" really means, but a year ago, I realized that "shilling" sounds a bit like "shelling," so the accoutrements of war are sort of present even in the first verse.