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 14 The Hiſtory of the four Kings.

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, grow weary of the court, and on a certain day meeting with her father in the garden, the deſired him, with tears in her eyes, to give her a ſmall ſunſiſtence, and the 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 and hard cheeſe, with a bottle of beer; tho' this was but a very pitiful dowry for a King's daughter. She took it, returned thanks, and ſo proceeded, paſſing through groves, woods, and valleys, till at length ſhe ſaw an old man ſitting on a ſtone, at the mouth of a cave, who ſaid, Good-morrow, fair maiden, whither away ſo faſt? Aged