In order that the Minister might marry the Princess, he went to the King, and said, “O Lord, Your Majesty, a leopardess is coming in the ship.”
Thereupon the King having said, “It is good. If so, let us go to look at the leopardess,” set off.
Then the Minister, because the Minister’s lie is coming to light, having gone to the road, said at the hand of the King, “O Lord, Your Majesty, I did not say it in the midst of your multitude. What though I said leopardess! It is a Princess who is wonderful to look at.”
The King taking that speech for the truth, having gone, when he looked it was a good-looking Princess. Then the King having asked the Princess regarding the circumstances, came back, summoning her to the palace, and married her.
When she was there a little time a Prince was born. Having been born, during the time while he was there, that teacher who had imposed [on the King], in much grief wrote false letters to the whole of the various cities that her father the King was very unwell, and that having seen the letter she was to come speedily; and he sent the letters.
The King who had married this Princess having received the letter and looked at the letter, told the Princess. Because a King does not go to yet [another] city, he told the Princess to go with the army and Minister, and come back, and started off the Princess-Queen to go to the city at which is her father the King.
Thereupon, at the time when the Queen, carrying that Prince, was going with the Minister on the sea, the Minister said thus to the Queen, “O Queen, now then, that King does not matter to us. Because of it, let us go to another city.”
Then the Queen, at the time when they were going ashore, said thus, “Why do you speak in that manner in the company of that crowd? We are now going ashore; when we have gone ashore let us go somewhere or other,” she said.
The Minister said, “It is good.” Having come ashore and said, “Let us go to another city,” and gone a little far, the Queen gave into the Minister’s hand the Prince, and having said, “I will go aside and return,” went and hid herself. Having hidden herself, and gone into a tree on which are many leaves, she remained looking in the direction of this Minister. When he had been looking out for a considerable time, she remained there looking on, and said, “When I am not [there], he will put down the Prince and go; then having gone there I will go away, carrying the Prince.”
While she was looking, the Minister, having called the Queen, because she was lost took the Prince by both legs, and having split him, and thrown him into the sea, he sought the Queen. He could not find her.