ABSTRACT
Here’s a tale told time and again, and as I tell it, my good sirs, let’splease pay attention to these gentlemen here who are listening.Once upon a time there was a king and a queen, and they had seven children, six girls and a boy. One day the boy said to his mother, the queen, “Oh Mama, as I was passing an abbey, I saw a young maiden combing her hair. She was as beautiful as the sun, with a braid this long, bright as gold. Mama, she is the woman I want to marry.”
