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house, but should desire that my
stepsisters should not know of it'
:and the fairy rejoined, 'Each time
that thou wouldest fare out and
enjoy thyself, come to the date-
tree, and say,

"My date-tree tall and golden,
With a golden mattock I dug thee around,
With a golden bucket I watered thee,
With a silken towel I wiped thy dry :
Undress thyself and robe thou me."

And when thou wouldest undress,
change the last verse, and say,
"Undress thou me, and robe
thyself."‘
Now it chanced that a great
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