So he was brought to the princess, and he told her that his apprentice had made a ring for her. She answered that she had not ordered a ring. “However, show it to me.”
As soon as she glanced at it, she said: “How much do you want for this?”
“Two thousand pounds.”
“Oh! it’s worth much more than that,” she said.
So she paid down the money and told the master-goldsmith to fetch his assistant to her. As soon as the master came home, he told his wife everything. She was still more astonished.
“O Lord!” she said, “I cannot understand it at all.”
The master told Anthony that the princess bade him come and see her.
“She can come to me,” was his reply.
When the princess heard that, she lost no time, but took some royal garments for him, and drove to Anthony’s house in the royal coach. She went straight to him and said, “I am come to bring you home with me, Anthony.”
She bade him put on the royal robe she had brought with her for him, and they drove together to the palace, and their marriage was celebrated not long after.