TALE IX.
THE FAIRY-PRINCE.
There lived in Spain a notable and beautiful virgin, but far more famous for excellence at her needle, insomuch that happy did the courtier think himself, who could wear the smallest piece of her work, though at a price almost invaluable. It happened one day, as this admirable seamstress sate working in her garden, that, casting aside her eyes on some fair flower or tree, she saw, as she thought, a little gentleman, yet one that shewed great nobility by his clothing, come riding toward her from behind a bed of flowers; thus surprised how any body should come into her garden, but much more, at the stature of the person, who, as he was on horseback, exceeded not a foots length in height, she had reason to suspect that her eyes deceived her. But the gallant, spurring his horse up the garden, made it not long, though his horse was little, before he came to see her: then greeting the
