with the Sun, Vastolla said to Peruonto, "My fine lad, now make
this ship to be changed into a palace, for then we shall be more
secure; you know the saying, "Praise the Sea, but keep to the
Land." And Peruonto replied--

"If you would have me say the spell,
With figs and raisins feed me well!"

So Vastolla, at once, fed him again, and Peruonto, swallowing
down the raisins and figs, did her pleasure; and immediately the
ship came to land and was changed into a beautiful palace, fitted
up in a most sumptuous manner, and so full of furniture and
curtains and hangings that there was nothing more to ask for. So
that Vastolla, who a little before would not have set the price of a
farthing on her life, did not now wish to change places with the
greatest lady in the world, seeing herself served and treated like a
queen. Then to put the seal on all her good fortune, she besought
Peruonto to obtain grace to become handsome and polished in his
manner, that they might live happy together; for though the
proverb says, "Better to have a pig for a husband, than a smile
from an emperor," still, if his appearance were changed, she
should think herself the happiest woman in the universe. And
Peruonto replied as before--

"If you would have me say the spell,
With figs and raisins feed me well!"

Then Vastolla quickly opened his lips, and scarcely had he spoken
the words when he was changed, as it were from an owl to a
nightingale, from an ogre to a beautiful youth, from a scarecrow to