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then, when the clock struck three,
they tied him up again.
The prince said to the girl:
- Tell my mother that she must
send here twelve men armed with
iron clubs. Tell her that I'm alive and
that you can save me.
.The next morning the attendants
went to the Queen and said that the
girl had not eaten anything. So the
Queen summoned her up to the
palace, and the girl told her what
that youth had told her in the
dungeon. The Queen sent her back
to the dungeons with twelve armed
men, and at midnight those
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