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8 terrified to find herself alone in so old and gloomy a palace. After thinking a few minutes what could possibly

done to remedy this inconvenience, she soon hit upon expedient; she touched all the persons in the except the king and queen, with her wand; maids honour, governesses, waiting-women, gentlemen ushers, grooms of the bed-chamber, lords in waiting, cooks, scullions, guards, pages, and footmen, were thrown into a sleep as sound as that of the princess.

She touched also with her wand all the horses in stables, all the grooms, all the dogs in the and oveneven [sic] little Bichon, the princess’s favourite who lay on the bed by her side: all fell fast asleep, the timotime [sic] should arrive for the princess to awakoawake [sic], they would be ready at a moment’s warning to upon her. EvonEven [sic] the very spits, and the partridges pheasants that were roasting on them, together the fire, were all laid asleep; and all this was in a moment—for fairies are never long in their feats.

The king and queen, after embracing their tenderly, without awaking her, left the palace; madomade [sic] a proclamation, that no one, on pain of should dare approach her. Tho king might, have saved himself this trouble: for in a quarter of hour there sprang up round thothe [sic] palace a vast of trees of all sorts and sizes, bushes and brambles, twining one in the other, that neither man nor