Page 41 - Sweet Diamond Pie

resolved to take the good mouthful
offered her, and, by giving Sweet
Diamond Pie a sleeping-draught, to
satisfy the poor girl but pay her in bad
coin. As soon as the Night was come,
when the stars come in the sky and the
glowworms on the earth, the Queen
gave Sweet Diamond Pie, who did
everything she ordered to him, wine
drugged with opium; then she put him
to bed with Betta. And no sooner had
he thrown himself on the mattress than
he fell as soundasleepas a dormouse.