At this he looked up , and saw the most beautiful woman he had ever set eyes on . ` Oh , it is Fortune that has sent you to me , ' he said . ` It is indeed , ' said she . ` What are you in need of , or what has sent you here ? ' ` Necessity , ' said he . ' I am dying for want of food and drink . ' ` Come inside , then , ' she said ; ` there is plenty of both here . ' Accordingly he went in to where she was , and she opened a large room for him , where he saw a number of men lying asleep . She then set food before him , and after that showed him to the room where the others were . He lay down on one of the beds and fell sound asleep . And now we must go back to the two that he left behind him in the wood . When nightfall and the time of the wild beasts came upon these , the Englishman happened to climb up into the very same tree on which the Scotsman was when he got a sight of the castle ; and as soon as the day began to dawn and the Englishman looked to the four quarters of heaven , what did he see but the castle too ! Off he went without saying a word to the Irishman , and everything happened to him just as it had done to the Scotsman . The poor Irishman was now left all alone , and did not know where the others had gone to , so he just stayed where he was , very sad and miserable . When night came he climbed up into the same tree as the Englishman had been on the night before . As soon as day came he also saw the castle , and set out towards it ; but when he reached it he could see no signs of fire or living being about it . Before long , however , he heard the window opened above his head , looked up , and beheld the most beautiful woman he had ever seen . He asked if she would give him food and drink , and she answered kindly and heartily that she would , if he would only come inside . This he did very willingly , and she set before him food and drink that he had never seen the like of before . In the room there was a bed , with diamond rings hanging at every loop of the curtains , and everything that was in the room besides astonished him so much that he actually forgot that he was hungry .
When she saw XXXXX he was not eating at all , she asked him what he wanted yet , to which he replied that he would neither eat nor drink until he knew who she was , or where she came from , or who had put her there . '
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