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84her, and looked for a door in the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the song had so touched his heart that he returned to the forest every day and listened to it. One time, as he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw the sorceress approach, and heard her say: %u201cRapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair.%u201dThen Rapunzel let down her strands of hair, and the sorceress climbed up them to her. \luck,%u201d said the Prince to himself. And the next day, just as it was beginning to get dark, he went to the tower and called out: %u201cRapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair.%u201dThe hair fell down, and the prince climbed up. At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man such as she had never seen before came in to her. However, the prince began talking to her in a very friendly manner, telling her that his heart had been so touched by her singing that he could have no peace until he had seen her in person. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him as her husband, she thought, \would rather have me than would old Frau Gothel.\and placed her hand into his.She said, \get down. Every time that you come, bring a strand of silk, from which I will weave a ladder. When it is finished I will climb down, and you can take me away on your horse.\They arranged that he would come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day. The sorceress did not notice what was happening until one day Rapunzel said to her, \why it is that you are more difficult to pull up than is the young prince, who will be arriving any moment now?\\you? I thought I had removed you from the whole world, but you

