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6ut with a loud voice to her women. Her nurse, who presented
herself first, desired to be informed what she would please to.
have, and if anything disagreeable had happened to her.

‘Tell me,’ said the princess, ‘what is become of the young
man whom I love with all my soul?’

‘Madam,’ replied the nurse, ‘we cannot understand your high-
ness, unless you will be pleased to explain yourself.’

‘A young man, the best and most amiable,” said the princess,
‘whom I could not awake; I ask you where he is?’

‘Madam, answered the nurse, ‘your. highness asks these
questions to jest with us. I beseech you to rise.’

‘T am in cnet said the princess, ‘and I must know where
this young man is.’ i

‘Madam, insisted the nurse, ‘how any man could come with-
out our knowledge we cannot imagine, for we all slept about the
door of your chamber, which was locked, and IT had the ey in
my pocket.’ .

At this the princess lost all patience, and ee her nurse
by the hair of her head, and giving her two or three sound cuffs, she
cried, ‘You shall tell me where this young man is, old sorceress,
or I will beat your brains out.’

The nurse struggled to get from her, and at last succeeded; when
she went immediately, with tears in her eyes, to complain to the
queen her mother, who was not a little’ surprised t to see her in this
condition, and asked who had done this.

‘Madam, began the nurse, ‘you see how the princess has treated,
me; she would certainly have murdered me, if I had not had the
good fortune to escape out of her hands, She then began to tell what
had been the cause of all that violent passion in the princess. ‘The
queen was surprised to hear it, and could not guess how she: came to
‘be so senseless as to take that for a reality which could be no other
. than a dream. ‘Your majesty must conclude’ from all this, thadam,’