the King’s Son : WB 211

assured him of exact obedience, upon which he went on thus: ‘I
have constantly lived in perfect felicity, and was never crossed by

“any accident: but by your arrival all the happiness I possessed is

vanished; my daughter is dead, her attendant is no more, and it is
through a miracle that I am yet alive. You are the cause of all
those misfortunes, for which it is impossible that I should be
comforted ; therefore depart ‘from hence in peace, without farther
delay, for I myself must perish if you stay any. longer: I am
persuaded that your presence brings. mischief along with it. This is
all I have to say to you. Depart, and beware of ever appearing
again in my dominions; no consideration whatsoever shall hinder
me from making you. repent of it I was going to speak, but he
stopped my mouth with words full of anger; and so I was obliged
to leave his palace, rejected, banished, an outcast from the world,
and not knowing what would become of me. And so I became

‘a hermit.

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