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such a magnificent company in the train of his ambas-
sador, may it not be that he may be able also to help you
in your war against the Emperor of India?”

“True!” said the king. Then turning to the ambas-
sador: “ Tell your master,” said he, “that if he will furnish
me with an army of one hundred thousand men, to aid me

 

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in the war against the Emperor of India, he shall have my
daughter for his wife.”

“Sire,” said the ambassador, ‘‘I will answer now for
my master, and the answer shall be this: That he will
help you with an army, not of ove hundred thousand, but
of #wo hundred thousand men. And if to-morrow you
will be pleased to ride forth to the plain that lieth to the

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