Note 4 — The Wax Horse1

At the time when the executioners were taking the Prince, having said “A thing of mine is [there]; I will take it and give it to you,” he climbed a tree, and taking the Wax Horse which at first he had placed and hidden there among the leaves, he flew away.4 Having gone thus a little far, and stopped, during the night time he came again to the royal palace; and calling the Princess, while they were going [on the flying horse] by the middle of a great forest wilderness, when pain in the body was felt by the Princess they alighted on the ground. Having caused her to halt [there] he went to a village near by, in order to bring medicine and other materials that she needed for it; and having set the Wax Horse near a shop and gone to yet [another] shop, when coming he saw that there having been a fire near the shop the Wax Horse having been melted had gone. After the Wax Horse was lost this Prince was unable to go to the place where the Princess stayed.