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After some time the young queen heard her husband say in his

dreams at night: 'Boy, make me the doublet, and patch the

pantaloons, or else I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.'

Then she discovered in what state of life the young lord had been

born, and next morning complained of her wrongs to her father,

and begged him to help her to get rid of her husband, who was

nothing else but a tailor. The king comforted her and said:

'Leave your bedroom door open this night, and my servants shall

stand outside, and when he has fallen asleep shall go in, bind

him, and take him on board a ship which shall carry him into the

wide world.' The woman was satisfied with this; but the king's

armour-bearer, who had heard all, was friendly with the young

lord, and informed him of the whole plot. 'I'll put a screw into

that business,' said the little tailor.