Note 1 — Concerning a Royal Princess and a Turtle
H. (Henry) Parker translation
During the time when they are [thus], the royal Queen bore a Princess endowed with much beauty. On that very day1 the Minister’s Queen also bore a Turtle. Concerning the circumstance that the Minister’s Queen bore the Turtle, the King and the Minister also remained in much grief. During the time when they were thus, the royal Queen bore yet six Princesses. At the time when she had borne [the last of them] ten years were fulfilled for the Princess whom she bore first.