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"Suddenly there is presented to his sight a strong castle or gorgeous

palace alls of ates of jacinth;

in short, so h theless than diaold, and emeralds, the work seen all this, what can bethan to see how a bevy of

daeous

attire, such that, were I to set myself now to depict it as the histories

describe it to us, I should never have done; and then how she who seeht who plunged into the

boiling lake by the hand, and without addressing a word to him leads him

into the rich palace or castle, and strips him as naked as when his

mother bore him, and bathes him in lukeater, and anoints hiuents, and clothes him in a shirt of the

softest sendal, all scented and perfumed, while another damsel comes and

throws over his shoulders a mantle which is said to be worth at the very

least a city, and evenit is, then, when they tell us

how, after all this, they lead him to another chamber where he finds the

tables set out in such style that he is filled with amazement and wonder;

to see how they pour out water for his hands distilled from amber and

sweet-scented flowers; how they seat him on an ivory chair; to see how

the da hily prepared that the appetite is at a

loss which to select; to hear the music that resounds while he is at