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Then he told her all that had happened, and said, 'I love you far

better than all the world; so come with me to my father's palace,

and you shall be my wife.' And Snowdrop consented, and went home

with the prince; and everything was got ready with great pomp and

splendour for their wedding.

To the feast was asked, among the rest, Snowdrop's old enemy the

queen; and as she was dressing herself in fine rich clothes, she

looked in the glass and said:

'Tell me, glass, tell me true! Of all the ladies in the land, Who

is fairest, tell me, who?'

And the glass answered:

'Thou, lady, art loveliest here, I ween; But lovelier far is the

new-made queen.'