Note 6 — The Wax Horse1
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This Prince in this way sought a marriage from the girls’ society itself, because he being a foundling6 no one gives a [daughter in] marriage on that account. Before this, one day while at the playground, when the other boys said, “He is base-born,” he having asked the King who reared him where his two parents were, had ascertained that having brought him from the midst of the forest he reared him.