further, you will find a well; sit down on the brink of it, and there
will come up three golden heads, which will speak; and whatever they
require, that do." Promising she would, she took her leave of him.
Coming to the hedge and using the old man's wand, it divided, and let
her through; then, coming to the well, she had no sooner sat down than
a golden head came up singing:

"Wash me, and comb me,
And lay me down softly.
And lay me on a bank to dry,
That I may look pretty,
When somebody passes by."

"Yes," said she, and taking it in her lap combed it with a silver
comb, and then placed it upon a primrose bank. Then up came a second
and a third head, saying the same as the former. So she did the same
for them, and then, pulling out her provisions, sat down to eat her
dinner.

Then said the heads one to another: "What shall we weird for this
damsel who has used us so kindly?"

The first said: "I weird her to be so beautiful that she shall charm
the most powerful prince in the world."

The second said: "I weird her such a sweet voice as shall far exceed
the nightingale."

The third said: "My gift shall be none of the least, as she is a
king's daughter, I'll weird her so fortunate that she shall become