He was almost asleep when a maple seed fell on his head, and he said:
“The seed makes me think of the hair of the Beautiful Princess.”
Then he heard a gentle tapping.
The tapping seemed to come from the tree under which he lay. He got up and called in a loud voice:
“Princess, princess, come to me,
If princess, now, you really be!”
Then, he heard a gentle sigh, but he thought it was the wind stirring the new green leaves.
Then the prince fell asleep, and dreamed a dream.
He dreamed that a door opened in the tree under which he lay and out walked the beautiful princess.