At length he arrived at the top of a mountain, where he sat down to rest himself; giving his horse liberty to feed, and Cabriole to run after the flies.  He knew that the gloomy cave was not far off, and looked about to see whether he could discover it; and at length he perceived a horrid rock as black as ink, whence issued a thick smoke; and immediately after he spied one of the dragons casting forth fire from his jaws and eyes; his skin all over yellow and green, with prodigious claws and a long tail rolled up in an hundred folds.  Avenant, with a resolution to die in the attempt, drew his sword, and with the phial which the Fair One with Locks of Gold had given him to fill with the water of beauty, went towards the cave, saying to his little dog, “Cabriole, here is an end of me; I never shall be able to get this water, it is so well guarded by the dragons; therefore when I am dead, fill this phial with my blood, and carry it to my princess, that she may see what her severity has cost me:  then go to the king my master and give him an account of my misfortunes.”  While he was saying this, he heard a voice call “Avenant, Avenant!” “Who calls me?” said he; and presently he espied an owl in the hole of an old hollow tree, who, calling him again, said, “You rescued me from the fowler’s net, where I had been assuredly taken, had you not delivered me.  I promised to make you amends, and now the time is come; give me your phial; I am acquainted with all the secret inlets into the gloomy cave, and will go and fetch you the water of beauty.”  Avenant most gladly gave the phial, and the owl, entering without any impediment into the cave, filled it, and in less than a quarter of an hour returned with it well stopped.  Avenant was overjoyed at his good fortune, gave the owl a thousand thanks, and returned with a merry heart to the city.  Being arrived at the palace, he presented the phial to the Fair One with Locks of Gold, who had then nothing further to say.  She returned Avenant thanks, and gave orders for every thing that was requisite for her departure:  after which she set forward with him.  The Fair One with Locks of Gold thought Avenant very amiable, and said to him sometimes upon the road, “If you had been willing, I could have made you a king; and then we need not have left my kingdom.”  But Avenant replied, “I would not have been guilty of such a piece of treachery to my master for all the kingdoms of the earth; though I must acknowledge your beauties are more resplendent than the sun.”

At length they arrived at the king’s chief city, who understanding that the Fair One with Locks of Gold was arrived, he went forth to meet her, and made her the richest presents in the world.  The nuptials were solemnized with such demonstrations of joy, that nothing else was discoursed of.  But the Fair One with Locks of Gold, who loved Avenant in her heart, was never pleased but when she was in his company, and would be always speaking in his praise:  “I