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 them for sale, and in a little time they agreed. Now that which he looked for was the purse, out of which he supposed she would take the money, for he suspected she had it, and accordingly it succeeded; for going to a coffer and taking it out, she fastened it to her girdle: when he having his wishing hat on, clasped her in his arms, and wishing himself in a wild desart, away they flew together over sea and land, till they came to a vast wilderness in Ireland; there he set her down, faint and almost breathless, under a tree on which grew very curious apples to look toAgrippina casting her eyes upon them, she intreated him to pull some of them to quench her thirst, for she was almost ready to perish with drought. yet he still loving her though she had played him such a slippery trick, and clapped unadvisedly his cap on her head to keep off the scorching sun, as knowing she knew not the virtue of it, so climbing up fell to gathering. In the mean while she sat pensive and sad, and wishing to God she was out of that desolate place, and in her father's courts, all on a sudden, contrary to her expectation, she was carried away, leaving Andolocia to fret at his folly, and vex himself more than ever: so that wandering up and down, faint and weary, at length sat down by a brook and fell to eating his apples, when immediately a grievous pain seized his head, so that he supposed them infectious, and began to fear his life: but on the contrary a great pair of goat's horns sprung out of his forehead, and then the pain ceased. This made him wonder at himself and stand amazed; but as he was sad and pensive, an old hermit came to him, and seeing him a stranger, and in that condition, invited him to his cave, and gave him such poor refreshment as he had, which consisted of nuts, wild apples, and roots, and his drink proceeded from a pleasant brook hard by: but Andolocia