The Queen lamented over this day and night, and said, "I am like a field on which nothing grows.
The mother, however, now sat and lamented all day long, until the youngest son, who was always with her, and whom she had named benjamin, from the bible, said to her, dear mother, why are you so sad.
Now when the king met his lords in the morning, he always lamented and said, "Oh, if I only had my love with me.
But the servants were ordered to give the king's son a sleeping draught, and then the maiden laid herself down on the threshold and lamented all night long.
Then she went to her father and cried and lamented, and said she would go forth into the world.
" The tailor told him what the king had required of him, and how he could not perform it, and lamented his misfortune.
Then the other went away, and wept and lamented over his foal.
Oh, very badly, said he, and then they lamented their misfortune together, but they said nothing about it to the youngest, for they did not like him at all, and always called him stupid Hans, because he did not know the ways of the world.
The mother, however, now sat and lamented all day long, until the youngest son, who was always with her, and whom she had named benjamin, from the bible, said to her, dear mother, why are you so sad.
And as she thus lamented someone said to her, "What ails you, king's daughter?
Many years had passed since the little girl had lamented and wept about "poor Inge.
" "The princess wept and lamented aloud; her tears moistened the elder stump, which was really not an elder stump but the Marsh King himself, he who in marshy ground lives and rules.
"How much the bird reminds me of the musical box of the late lamented empress," said an old courtier, "it has exactly the same tone, the same execution.
" Giuseppe went off at once, while his wife lamented, and the boy wept.
