“To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.” MenWantYearsLongShowsCareJoyPassionLostStrongWaitingCenturyTearsLessonsHundredTalesRefinedUncommonUnheardArdor Author:Charles Perrault
“After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.” YearsCountrySidesSleepSawsMiddleSonKingsHundredWoodsHuntingPrincessThickTowers Book:The sleeping beauty in the woods Source: The sleeping beauty in the woods
