If your majesty goes out there alone , fasting , before sunrise , and takes the middle one of the three buds , and eats it , then in six months you will bring a princess into the world . As soon as she is born , she must have a nurse , whom I shall provide , and this nurse must live with the child in a secluded part of the palace ; no other person must visit the child ; neither the king nor the queen must see it until it is fourteen years old , for that would cause great sorrow and misfortune . ' The queen rewarded the old woman richly , and next morning , before the sun rose , she was down in the garden , found at once the little bush with the three buds , plucked the middle one and ate it . It was sweet to taste , but afterwards was as bitter as gall . Six months after this , she brought into the world a little girl . There was a nurse in readiness , whom the wise woman had provided , and preparations were made for her living with the child , quite alone , in a secluded wing of the castle , looking out on the pleasure-park . The queen did as the wise woman had told her ; she gave up the child immediately , and the nurse took it and lived with it there . When the king came home and heard that a daughter had been born to him , he was of course very pleased and happy , and wanted to see her at once . The queen had then to tell him this much of the story , that it had been foretold that it would cause great sorrow and misfortune if either he or she got a sight of the child until it had completed its fourteenth year . This was a long time to wait . The king longed so much to get a sight of his daughter , and the queen no less than he , but she knew that it was not like other children , for it could speak immediately after it was born , and was as wise as older folk . This the nurse had told her , for with her the queen had a talk now and again , but there was no one who had ever seen the princess . The queen had also seen what the wise woman could do , so she insisted strongly that her warning should be obeyed . The king often lost his patience , and was determined to see his daughter , but the queen always put him off the idea , and so things went on , until the very day before the princess completed her fourteenth year . The king and the queen were out in the garden then , and the king said , ` Now I ca n't and I wo n't wait any longer . I must see my daughter at once . A few hours , more or less , ca n't make any difference . ' The queen begged him to have patience till the morning . When they had waited so long , they could surely wait a single day more . But the king was quite unreasonable .
` No nonsense , ' said he ; ` she is just as much mine as yours , and I will XXXXX her , ' and with that he went straight up to her room .
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