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RIQUET WITH THE TUFT. 
 
 There was once upon a time a queen who 
 hinX a little son ; but he had a hunch upon 
 his back, and was besides so hideously ugly, 
 that it was for some time doubted if he had 
 the form of a human creature. 
 
 A fairy, who happened to be present at the 
 prince's birth, assured his parents, that not- 
 withstanding his excessive ugliness, he would 
 make himself agreeable to every one on ac- 
 count of his great wit and talents : she added, 
 that this was not all : ibr that she had also 
 bestowed upon him the power of endowing 
 the person he should love best in the world, 
 with the yerj same qualities. AH this was 
 some ccmsolation to the poor queen, who was 
 dreadfully afflicted at the thought of having 
 brougiit such a frightful little creature into 
 the world. It is true, no sooner did he begin 
 to talk, than he said the most charming 
 things imaginable; and whatever he did wais 
 in so clever and agreeable a manner, that 
 every body loved and admired him. 
 
4 RIQUET WITH THE TUFT* 
 
 Seven years after, the queen of a neigh- 
 bouring kingdom was brought to bed of twin 
 daughters: the one that was born first was 
 more beautiful than the day ; whieh caused 
 the queen so much joy, that it was thought 
 by those about her, that it would endanger 
 her life. The same fairy who was present 
 at the birth of little Riquet with the Tuft, 
 was with the queen in her confinement; and 
 to remedy the inconvenience her too great 
 joy had occasioned, she assured her that the 
 new-born princess should have no under- 
 standing at all, but that she should be as 
 silly and stupid as she was handsome. This 
 assurance grieved the queen very much : but 
 in a few minutes she received a still greater 
 disappointment; for the second princess, 
 when born, was the ugliest little marmot ever 
 It held. 
 
 The fairy seeing the queen's distress, said 
 to her: '' 1 entreat your majesiy, do not thus 
 afflict yourself. Your daughter shall be 
 endowed with so much wit, that nobody will 
 peiceive her want of beauty.'^ " This would 
 be a great comfort to me, indeed," replied 
 the queen : " but would it not be possible to 
 bestow a small portion of the same charming 
 advantage on the princess who is so beau- 
 tiful'' "^^ This is not in my power," an* 
 
RIQUET WITH THE TLFT. 5 
 
 swered the fairy; '^^ I cannot meddle with 
 her understanding, but 1 can do all I please 
 with respect to her beauty ; and therefore, as 
 there is nothing 1 would not do for your 
 satisfaction, I will bestow on her, for a gift, 
 that she shall be able to make the person she 
 loves as handsome as she pleases.^' 
 
 As the two princesses grew up, their per- 
 fections grew also, and nothing was talked of 
 but the beauty of the eldest, and the wit and 
 talents of the youngest. It is true, their 
 defects increased in the same degree, for the 
 youngest became every day more ugly, and 
 the eldest more ignorant and stupid ; she 
 either did not reply to the questions that 
 were asked of her, or spoke in the silliest 
 manner possible. She was so extremely awk 
 ward too, that if she had to place half a dozen 
 tea-cups on the chimney-piece, she was sure 
 to break one of them ; or if she attempted to 
 drink a glass of water, she let half of it fall 
 upon her clothes. Though beauty is a great 
 advantage to a young lady, yet the youngest 
 of the princesses was by every one preferred 
 to the eldest. It must be confessed, that 
 people first approached the eldest to see and 
 admire her, but they soon left her to hear 
 the clever and agreeable conversation of her 
 sister — so that in less than a quarter of an 
 
6 RIQUET WIEH THE TUFT. 
 
 hour the eldest always found herself alone^ 
 while all strangers got as near as they could 
 to the youngest. The eldest, though very 
 stupid, observed all this, and would willingly j 
 have parted with her beauty to gain but half 
 the wit of her sister. The queen, notwith- 
 standing her good nature, could not refrain 
 from reproving her now and then for her 
 stupidity ; so that the poor princess was 
 ready to die of grief. 
 
 One day, having retired to a neighbouring 
 wood, where, without being seen, she might ^ 
 sit down and cry at her ease for the hard fate 
 she was obliged to endure, she perceived a 
 young man of small stature, and very ugly, 
 coming near to her ; he was at the same time 
 magnificently dressed. This was the young 
 prince Riquet with the Tuft, who having 
 fallen violently in love with this princess from 
 the portraits he had every where seen of her, 
 had left his father^s kingdom to have the 
 pleasure of seeing and conversing with her. | 
 Delighted at so unexpected an opportunity 
 of meeting her alone, he addressed her with 
 all imaginable respect. Obsta-ving, after 
 the first compliments were over, that she 
 appeared very melancholy, he said : " f can- 
 not imagine, madam, how it is possible for a j 
 lady poasessed of ^uch beauty as your's to b« ! 
 
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RIQUET WITH THE TXJFT. 7 
 
 SO unhappy as you appear ; for though I can 
 boast of having seen a great number of hand- 
 some ladies, I can assure you, none of them 
 could in the smallest degree be compared to 
 you.'* " You are pleased to flatter me,'* 
 replied the princess, without adding another 
 word. " Beauty," continued Riquet with 
 the Tuft, " is so great an advantage, that it 
 supplies the place of every thing else ; and 
 she who is endowed with so great a blessing 
 ought to be insensible to every kind of mis- 
 fortune.'' " I had much rather," said the 
 princess, '^ be as ugly as you are, and pos- 
 sessed of wit, than have the beauty you 
 praise, and be such a fool as I am," " No- 
 thing, madam," replied the prince, " is a 
 surer mark of good sense than to believe 
 ourselves in want of it; indeed, the more 
 sensible we really are, the plainer we see how 
 much we fall short of perfe<5tion." " I know 
 nothing of what you are talking of," an- 
 swered the princess ; " but I do know that 
 I am very, very foolish, and that is the cause 
 of the grief in which you see me." '* If tbis 
 is all that makes you unhappy, madam,** 
 said the prince, " I can very easily put an 
 end to your affliction." " By what means ?" 
 replied the princess. '^ I have the power/' 
 §aid Riquet with the Tuft, " to bestow as 
 
8 RIQUET WITH THE TUFT- 
 
 much wit as I please on tlie person I am to 
 love best in the world 3 and as that person 
 can be no other, madam, than yourself, it 
 depends only on your own will to be the 
 wittiest lady upon the earth. I shall ask of 
 you in return but one condition, which is, 
 that you shall consent to marry me." 
 
 71ie princess looked at him with asto- 
 nishment, but did not speak a word. 
 
 " I see/' continued Riquet, "that my pro- 
 posal makes you uneasy, aad I am not sur- 
 prised at it ; I will therefore give you a whole 
 year to consider of your answer. '^ 
 
 The princess was so very stupid and silly, 
 and at the same time so much desired to be 
 witty, that she resolved on accepting the 
 offer made her by prince Riquet with the 
 Tuft ; she even thought a whole year a very 
 long time, and would gladly have made it 
 shorter if she could. She accordingly told 
 the prince she would marry him on that 
 day twelvemonth ; and no sooner had she 
 pronounced the words, than she found her- 
 self quite another creature : she said every 
 thing she wished, not only with the greatest 
 ease imaginable, but in the most natural and 
 graceful manner. She immediately took 
 her part in a lively and agreeable conversa- 
 tiiii with the prince, in which she showed 
 
RIQUET WITH THE TUFT. 9 
 
 herself SO extremely witty, that Riquet began 
 to fear he had bestowed upon her more of the 
 charming quality she had so much longed 
 for than he had kept to himself. 
 
 When the princess returned to the palace, 
 the whole court was thrown into the utmost 
 astonishment at the sudden and wonderful 
 change they observed in her ; for every 
 thing she now uttered they found to be as 
 clever and entertaining as it had before been 
 stupid and ridiculous. The joy at this event 
 was the greatest ever known throughout the 
 court : the youngest princess was the only 
 person w4io did not partake of it: for as she 
 had no h^n^ier the advanta2:e of wit over the 
 beauty of her sister, she could not but appear 
 to everyone the most ugly and disagreeable 
 creature in the world, 
 
 The king now consulted his eldest daughter 
 in the affairs of his government, and was even 
 guided by her advice in matters of the great- 
 est importance. And the news of this great 
 change beiuiT every where talked of, it soon 
 reached the ears of the neighbouring princes, 
 who all ha-^tened to present themselves at 
 her father's palace, to gain, if possible, her 
 favour, and demand her in marriage of the 
 king. But the princess listened with equal 
 coldness and inditierence to all they had to 
 
10 RIQUET \TITH THE TUFT. 
 
 say ; not one of them had wit enough to make 
 her think for a moment of accepting his 
 offer. As length there came a prince, so 
 powerful, so rich, so witty, and so handsome, 
 that she could not help feeling a great affec- 
 tion for him. The king, perceiving this, 
 told her she had only to choose for a husband 
 whom she liked best, and that she might be 
 sure of his consenting to her marriage with 
 him. As the most sensible persons are 
 always the most careful in determining on 
 such serious matters, the princess, after 
 thanking her father, begged him to allow 
 her time to consider what she should do. 
 
 Soon after, the princess chanced in her 
 walk to wander towards the very wood in 
 which she had met with Riquet with the 
 Tuft ; and wishing to be free from inter- 
 ruption while thinking of her new lover, she 
 proceeded a good way into it. When she 
 had walked about for some time, she heard a 
 great noise underground, like that of many 
 persons running backwards and forwards, 
 and busily employed on some affair of im- 
 portance After listening for a moment, 
 she distinguished difierent voices ; one said, 
 *' Bring me that kettle :'' another, " Fetch 
 the great boiler :*- another, '^ Put some coals 
 on the fire.'^ At the same moment the 
 
RIQUET \TITH THE TUFT. 11 
 
 ground opened, and a spacious kitchen, filled 
 with vast numbers of cooks, assistants, and 
 scullions, to.J2:ether with all sorts of utensils 
 lit for preparing a splendid dinner, appeared 
 to the view of the astonished princess : some 
 had rolling-pins, and were making- the most 
 delicate sorts of pastry ; others were beating 
 the syllabubs and turning the custards : and 
 atone end of the kitchen she sow at least 
 twenty men-cooks, all busily employed in 
 trussing different sorts of the finest game and 
 poultry imaginable, and singing all the time 
 as merrily as could be. 
 
 The princess, in the utmost surprise at 
 what she beheld, inquired of them, to whom 
 they belonged ? " To prince Riquet with 
 the Tuft, raadam,'^ replied the head cook, 
 " whose wedding dinner we are preparing." 
 The princess, still more surprised than before, 
 and instantly recollecting that this was ex- 
 actly the day twelvemonth on which she had 
 promised to marry prince Eiquet, was ready 
 to sink on the ground. The reason of her 
 not recollecting this before was, that when 
 she made the promise she was quite silly, and 
 that the wit the prince had endowed her 
 with, had made her forget every thing that 
 had happened to her before. She tried to 
 walk away from the place, but bad not gone 
 
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13 RIQUET WITH THE TUFT. 
 
 twenty steps when Riquet with the Tuft pre- 
 sented himself before her, dressed magnifi* 
 cently in the gayest wedding suit that ever 
 was seen. 
 
 •^ You perceive, madam," said he, '^ that I 
 have kept my promise faithfully, and no 
 doubt you have come hither for the same 
 purpose, and, by bestowing on me your hand, 
 to make me the happiest of men." " I must 
 frankly confess," replied the princess, " that 
 I am not yet come to a resolution on that 
 subject, and also that I fear it never will be 
 in my power to consent to what you desire." 
 " You quite astonish me, madam !" answered 
 prince Riquet. "That I can easily imagine," 
 continued the princess : " and certainly I 
 should be greatly perplexed what to say to 
 you, if I did not know that you possess the 
 best understanding in the world. Were you 
 a silly prince, you would no doubt say to me, 
 * the promise of a princess ought not to be 
 broken, and therefore you must marry me.' 
 But you, prince Riquet, who have so much 
 more sense than any other, will, I trust, 
 excuse me for what I have declared. You 
 cannot have forgotten that, when I was but 
 a silly stupid princess, 1 could not be pre- 
 vailed on to consent to marry you ; how, 
 therefore, now that I am endowed with ua- 
 
RIQUET WITH THE TLFT. 13 
 
 derstanding, and for that reason must na- 
 turally be the more difficult to be pleased, 
 can you expect me to choose a prince I then 
 rejected ? If you really wished to marry me, 
 you did very wroni^ to chan^^e me from the 
 most silly creature in the world to the most 
 witty, so as to make me see more plainly the 
 faults of others/' 
 
 " If, madam," replied Riquet with the 
 Tuft, " you would think it but reasonable 
 in a prince without sense to reproach you for 
 what you have declared, why should you 
 think proper to deny me the same advantage, 
 in an affair in which the happiness of my 
 whole life is concerned ? Is it just that per- 
 sons of sense should be worse treated than 
 those who have none ? You, my princess, 
 who are now so very clever, and so much 
 wished to be so, can you really determine to 
 treat me in this manner ? But let us con- 
 sider a little. Is there any thing in me 
 besides my ugliness, that you dislike ? Are 
 you dissatisfied with my birth, my under- 
 standing, my temper, manners, or condi- 
 tion ?" "With none of these," re]>lied the 
 princess ; " I dislike in you only the ugliness 
 of your person." " If that is the case," 
 answered Riquet, " I shall soon he the hap- 
 piest man alive, since you, princess, have the 
 
14 aiQUET 'WITH THE TUFT. 
 
 power to make me as handsome as yon 
 please.'' " How can that be possible ?'* 
 resumed the princess. " Nothing more is 
 necessary," said Riquet, ^* than you should 
 love me well enough to wish me %'ery hand- 
 some: in short, my charming princess, I 
 must inform you that the same faiiy, who, 
 at my birth, bestowed upon me the gift of 
 making the lady I love best, as witty as I 
 pleased, was present also at your's, and gave 
 to you the power of making him you should 
 love the best, as handsome as you pleased.'* 
 *^ Since this is the case," said the princess, 
 *^ I wish you with all my heart to be the 
 handsomest prince in all the world, and as 
 much as depends on me I bestow upon you 
 the gift of beauty." 
 
 The princess had no sooner finished speak- 
 ing, than Riquet with the Tuft appeared to 
 her eyes the handsomest, best-shaped, and 
 most agreeable person she had ever beheld. 
 
 Some people were of opinion that this sur. 
 prising change in the prince was not occa- 
 sioned by the gift of the fairy, but that the 
 love the princess (Conceived for him was the 
 only cause : and they also added, that the 
 princess thought so much of the perseverance 
 of her lover, of his discretion, and the many 
 exci^llcnt (|ua]ities of heart and mind he pos 
 
RIQUET ^2TH THE TUFT. 15 
 
 S€«Bed, that she no longer perceived either 
 the ugliness of his face, or the deformity of 
 his person. 
 
 The hunch on his back now seemed to her 
 to be nothing more than the easy carriage 
 in which men of quality indulge themselves, 
 and his lameness a careless freedom in his 
 gait, which appeared extremely graceful 5 the 
 squinting of his eyes, in those of the prin- 
 cess, did but make them seem more brilliant 
 and more tender: in short, his thick red 
 nose, in her opinion, gave a warlike and 
 heroic air to his whole face. 
 
 However this may be, the princess pro- 
 mised to marry prince Riquet with the Tuft 
 immediately, provided he could obtain the 
 consent of the king her father. 
 
 The king being informed that his daugh- 
 ter entertained a great esteem for prince 
 Riquet with the Tuft, and having heard of 
 the extraordinary qualities of both his heart 
 and mind, received him with pleasure for a 
 son-in-law ; so that the following day, as 
 the prince had long expected, proved to be 
 that of the union with the beautiful and no 
 less witty princess. 
 
 THE END. 
 
RiaUET WITH THE TUFT. 
 
 Princes, by fortune's freaks, are often cuffed — 
 This chance befel our RIQUET WITH THE TUFT 
 Who tho* the son of a great king and queen. 
 Was, sure, the us^liest mortal ever seen: 
 Of smallest stature, head of jargest size, 
 Hump on his back, a squint in both his eyes,— 
 His mouth, a channel wide 'twixt nose and chin, 
 Half open stood, forming- a horrid grin ; 
 His spindle shanks could scarce support his frame, 
 One toot was clubbed, the other bent and lame : 
 Yet he had wit, and the rare gift possest, 
 To make her wise whom he should love the best: 
 This boon a fairy to his parents gave, 
 Whose grief would else have sunk them in the grave. 
 In distant lands, — for so the story runs, 
 A king had daughters two— but wanted sons; 
 The youngest ugly, full of sterling sense- 
 By most esteemed an ample recompense. 
 The eldest proved an idiot from her birth, 
 But none so beautiful e'er trod the earth ; 
 Added to which, she could the secret boast. 
 To make him handsome whom she loved the most 
 Like constellations at the court they shone, 
 For beauty one, for wit the other known -. 
 This soon was spread forth, by the trump of fame, 
 And numerous suitors to the ladies came ; 
 Among the rest PRINCK RIQUET found his way — 
 Tho' lacking form, great sense he did di play : 
 The elder charm^^d him, and he wished to find 
 Himself in wedlock with that princess joined. 
 He offered her the marriage knot to tie, — 
 The blushing maiden quickly made reply,— 
 ** I know I'm silly, and it grieves me sore, 
 **My want of sense I ev'ry day deplore; 
 ** Your wit I like, yet deem me not unkind — 
 " Your fate with mine I fear I ne'er can bind.'* 
 If to my person only ynu object, 
 'Then,' RIQUET said, 'success I may expect; 
 * To me, sweet girl, you beauty can dispense,— 
 I, in return, can give you wit and sense.' 
 
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