t until t lay dead.

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    quot;I ;

    So took al stairs into crystal toal stables al al. to a crystal garden doal trees in  floal pools. tuck t in .  t niger  t;May I ?quot;

    quot;You certainly may,quot; said t;tal floal garden of my solid crystal castle.quot; ossed , w.

    back to tone t day,  ed tone, slipped to tered a solid silver palace. Silver servants came running up saying, quot;Command, our lord!quot; took o sced over silver fires, and silver gardens tle buncuck t. t nigo ter whem.

    to tered a solid gold palace, oo, from o boots; ts, pillotered ains o stick in  and gave to ter t night.

    Noournament, and ter in marriage. tal key, entered tal palace and cal al bridle and saddle, and to tournament in crystal armor and carrying a crystal lance. ed all ts and fled  revealing who he was.

    t day urned on a silver rappings of silver, dressed in silver armor and carrying ed everyone and fled, still unknoo all. turned on a gold fitted entirely in gold. orious time as ;I knoles of crystal, silver, and gold.quot;

    So t married, and ttle shepherd became king.

    And all were very happy and gay,

    But to me wc nor pay.

    (Monferrato)

    NOtES:

    quot;tlesquot; (I tre castelli) from Comparetti, 62 and 22, Monferrato, Piedmont.

    tese tales are variants of a single type. I took ts