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 night, the princess had no occasion, and the Prince left her the next morning to return into the city, where his father had been in great pain for him.

The Prince told him he had lost his way in the forest as he was hunting, and had lain at the cottage of a collier who had given him some brown bread and cheese.



The King his father, who was a very good man, readily believed him; but his mother, the Queen, could not be persuaded that this was altogeter [sic], true and seeing that he went almost every day a hunting, and that he had always some excuse ready for so doing, tho’ he had lain out three or four nights