The Prince did not know what to believe, and presently a very aged countryman spake to him thus:— "May it please your royal Highness, more than fifty years since I heard from my father that there was then in this castle the most beautiful princess that was ever seen; that she must sleep there a hundred years, and that she should be waked by a king's son, for whom she was reserved."
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I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
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Louis King of France, on a visit with the Burgundians, while hunting, became acquainted with one Conon, a countryman, but of honest and simple spirit, for monarchs are delighted with men of this sort.
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After the activities of the second day she stayed the night with a countryman.
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