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they had lived. And after supper, without losing any time, the lord almoner married them in the chapel of the castle, and the ehief lady of honour drew the curtains.
They had but very little sleep that night, the princess had no oeeasion; and the prince left her the next morning to return into the eity, where his father had been in great pain anxious for his return.
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 eheese.
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 altogethcr true; and, seeing that he went almost every day a hunting, and that he had always found some excuse for so doing, though hc had lain out three or four nights together, she began to suspeet (and very justly too) his having some little private amour, which he then endeavoured that she should remain ignorant of.
Now these frequent excursions, which he then made from the palace, where thc times that he retired to the princess, with whom he lived in this manner for about two years, and by whom he had two fine ehildren, the eldest of whom was
