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tells her the truth she blames the glass for being
untrue, and the quicksilver for being put on
badly.
When the town was thus filled with women the
King had them all drawn up in a line, and he
walked up and down from top to bottom, and
as he examined and measured each from head
to foot one appeared to him wry-browed,
another long-nosed, another broad-mouthed,
another thick-lipped, another tall as a may-
pole, another short and dumpy, another too
stout, another too slender; the Spaniard did not
please him on account of her dark colour, the
Neopolitan was not to his fancy on account of
her gait, the German appeared cold and icy, the
Frenchwoman frivolous and giddy, the Venetian
with her light hair looked like a distaff of flax.
At the end of the end, one for this cause and
another for that, he sent them all away, with
one hand before and the other behind.

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