The hours passed as if they were minutes , till the princess said that she could be no longer absent from her father . Then Virgilius conducted her himself over the airy bridge , and laid her gently down on her own bed , where she was found next morning by her father . She told him all that had happened to her , and he pretended to be very much interested , and begged that the next time Virgilius came he might be introduced to him . Soon after , the sultan received a message from his daughter that the stranger was there , and he commanded that a feast should be made ready , and , sending for the princess delivered into her hands a cup , which he said she was to present to Virgilius herself , in order to do him honour . When they were all seated at the feast the princess rose and presented the cup to Virgilius , who directly he had drunk fell into a deep sleep . Then the sultan ordered his guards to bind him , and left him there till the following day . Directly the sultan was up he summoned his lords and nobles into his great hall , and commanded that the cords which bound Virgilius should be taken off , and the prisoner brought before him . The moment he appeared the sultan 's passion broke forth , and he accused his captive of the crime of conveying the princess into distant lands without his leave . Virgilius replied that if he had taken her away he had also brought her back , when he might have kept her , and that if they would set him free to return to his own land he would come hither no more . ` Not so ! ' cried the sultan , ` but a shameful death you shall die ! ' And the princess fell on her knees , and begged she might die with him . ` You are out in your reckoning , Sir Sultan ! ' said Virgilius , whose patience was at an end , and he cast a spell over the sultan and his lords , so that they believed that the great river of Babylon was flowing through the hall , and that they must swim for their lives . So , leaving them to plunge and leap like frogs and fishes , Virgilius took the princess in his arms , and carried her over the airy bridge back to Rome . Now Virgilius did not think that either his palace , or even Rome itself , was good enough to contain such a pearl as the princess , so he built her a city whose foundations stood upon eggs , buried far away down in the depths of the sea . And in the city was a square tower , and on the roof of the tower was a rod of iron , and across the rod he laid a bottle , and on the bottle he placed an egg , and from the egg there hung chained an apple , which hangs there to this day . And when the egg shakes the city quakes , and when the egg shall be broken the city shall be destroyed . And the city Virgilius filled full of wonders , such as never were seen before , and he called its name Naples . -LRB- Adapted from ` Virgilius the Sorcerer . ' -RRB-
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