the beautiful rainbow informed fairer-than-a-fairy that he was young, the son of a powerful king, and that the fairy, lagree, who owed his parents a grudge, had revenged herself by depriving him of his natural shape for some years; that she had imprisoned him in the palace, where he had found his confinement hard to bear for some time, but now, he owned, he no longer sighed for freedom since he had seen and learned to love fairer-than-a-fairy.