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 The fifth, that she would sing perfectly.

And the sixth, that she would play on kinds of musical instruments to the  perfection.

The old Fairy's turn coming next, she advanced forward, and, with a shaking which seemed to shew more spite then  she said, That the Princess would have  hand pierced with a spindle, and die of  wound.

This terrible gift made the whole tremble, and every one of them fell to

At this very instant, the young Fairy out from behind the curtains, and  these words aloud, Assure yourselves, O  and Queen, that your daughter shall not  of this disaster; it is true, I have not  to undo what my elder has done. The Princess shall indeed pierce her hand with a spindle, but instead of dying she shall only into a profound sleep, which shall last an hundred years; at the expiration of which,  King's Son shall come and awake her from.

The King to avoid this misfortune, by the old splenetic and malicious  caused immediately his royal  to be issued forth, whereby every person  forbidden, upon the pain of death, to  with a distaff or spindle, nay, even so  as to have a spindle in any of their houses.

About 15 or 16 years after, the King Queen being gone to one of their houses