"'Thanks,' said they. Then after a silence one of them said, 'If I were you I would go and lie on the top of a great cliff, and as the yellow sunlight trickles over the stones at morning, I would catch a bit in a gold box and shut the lid quickly and keep it. Where is a Lady would have golden locks like that, so yellow and so fine?'
"'It is well,' cried the Prince, and so saying he went away, sadly thinking of the kiss he might not have.
"Next day the Court and the King and the Princess were in the garden awaiting the two Princes.
"First came Prince Clever who had gotten his good looks again, and who came gaily with a hundred knights and with slaves who bore an ivory box which held the Princess' hair.
"Next came Prince Sturdy on a great black steed, but all alone and with only a little gold box in his hand.
"When both had bent before the lady she smiled and said, 'You are empty handed.'
"'No,' said Clever, and bade the slaves approach. Then from the ivory box he took a glorious tress of the Lady's hair.
"'Is it like?' said he. 'Ah!' she cried, as she matched it with her own long hair. 'It is the same! It was mine! How came you by this?'
"'Pardon me, Lady,' he said. 'It was I who in your sleep yesterday stole this tress of hair. Where else is any like it?'