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Sleeping Beauty, was formerly, in a distant country, a king and a queen, the most beautiful and happy the world; having nothing to allay their delights, but the want of children to participate in  pleasures they enjoyed. This was their whole eoneernconcern [sic]: physieiansphysicians [sic], waters, vows, and were tried, but all to no purpose. At, however, the queen proved with child, and due time she was brought to bed of a daughter. At the ehristeningchristening [sic] the prineessprincess [sic] had seven for her god-mothers, who were all they  find in the whole kingdom, that every one might give her a gift.

The christening being over, a grand feast was to entertain and thank the fairies. Before each of them was placed a magnificent, with a spoon, a knife, and a fork, of pure and excellent workmanship, set with divers