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him thus: "May it please your

royal highness, it is now about

fifty years since I heard from my

father, who heard my grandfather

say, that there was then in this

castle a princess, the most

beautiful was ever seen; that she

must sleep there a hundred years,

and should be waked by a king's

son, for whom she was reserved."

The young prince was all on

fire at these words, believing,

without weighing the matter, that

he could put an end to this rare

adventure; and, pushed on by love

and honor, resolved that

moment to look into it.

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