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 The king hearing of a Lady who had likewise an only daughter, for the sake of her riches, had a mind to marry her; though she was old, ugly, hook-nos'd and hump-back’d, yet all could not deter him from marrying her. The daughter of the said piece of deformity was a yellow dowdy, full of envy and ill nature; and, in short, was much of the same mould as her mother. This signified nothing, for in a few weeks the king attended by the nobility and gentry, brought the said piece of deformity to his palace, where the marriage-rites were performed. Long they had not been in the court, before they set the king against his own beautiful daughter, which was done by false reports and accusations. The young princess having lost her father's love, grew weary of the court, and on a certain day meeting with her father in the garden, she desired him with tears in her eyes, to give her a small subsistance, and she would go and seek her fortune; to which the king consented, and ordered her mother in-law to make up a small sum according to her discretion. To her she went, who gave her a canvas bag of brown bread, a hard cheese, with a bottle of beer; though this was but a very pitiful dowry for a king's daughter,