24 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.

 

entered into it ; what not a little surprised
him was, he saw none of his people could
follow him, because the trees closed again,
as soon as he passed through them.
However, he did not cease from
valiantly pursuing his way. He came
into a spacious outward court, where
everything he saw might have frozen
up the most hardy person with horror.
There reigned all over a most frightful
silence, the image of death everywhere
shewing itself, and there was nothing to
be seen but stretched out bodies of men
and animals, seeming to be dead. He,
however, very well knew by the rosy