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1 …Once upon a time...
2 …there lived a king and queen who were made glad by the birth of a daughter…
3 …and they prepared a great feast in honor of their daughter’s christening, to which they invited the wise women…
4 ...and each of the wise women stepped forward to bestow on the princess a gift…
5 ...the first gave her the gift of virtue, and the second bestowed beauty upon her...
6 …but before the third of the wise women could speak her gift, there was a clamor and another came in…
7 ...It was the last fairy, who came uninvited, full of wrath and seeking to punish the king for his impudence…
8 …she said, ‘the year the princess comes of age, she shall prick herself on the needle of a spindle and fall down dead.’
9 ...And the princess grew to full stature over the course of years...
10 ...And the gifts of the wise women were plenteously fulfilled in the young girl, that everyone who saw her was bound to love her...
11 ...And on the day of the princess’s coming of age, there was a grand ball, and she danced with many eligible partners...
12 ...But though princes pressed for her hand, she chose none of them. Then the next day she felt in a wandering mood...
13 … she came to a deserted room she had never been in before, where a woman sat spinning with a spindle...
14 ...And the princess pricked herself on the sharp point and fell into a deep sleep...
15 ...And this sleep extended all over the palace where the princess lay...
16 …Many young men sought to rescue the princess, as she lay in sleep.
17 ...And round the castle, a hedge of thorns grew high and wide...
18 ...The thorns made it impossible for anyone to pass through to disturb the sleeping princess...
19 ...From time to time, young men would try to get through the hedge of thorns, but none succeeded...
20 …The story of the beautiful sleeping “Briar-Rose” went about the country, and spread abroad.
21 ...But one king’s son resolved, against all dire warnings, to pass through the thorns which had claimed the lives of so many...
22 ...the king’s son approached the hedge of thorns, on which many other young men had failed...
23 ...and though the thorns let him pass through unhurt, they closed behind him as he passed...
24 ...And the princess awoke.. .
25 ...And the princess looked at him and declared that she would have him and none other for her husband...
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