The Fisherman and His Wife · page 21 2101‘I will think about that,’ said the wife.102Then they went to bed: but Dame Ilsabill could not sleep all night for thinking what she should be next.103At last, as she was dropping asleep, morning broke, and the sun rose.104‘Ha!’ thought she, as she woke up and looked at it through the window, ‘after all I cannot prevent the sun rising.’105At this thought she was very angry, and wakened her husband, and said, ‘Husband, go to the fish and tell him I must be lord of the sun and moon.’106The fisherman was half asleep, but the thought frightened him so much that he started and fell out of bed.107‘Alas, wife!’ said he, ‘cannot you be easy with being pope?’108‘No,’ said she, ‘I am very uneasy as long as the sun and moon rise without my leave.109Go to the fish at once!’110Then the man went shivering with fear; and as he was going down to the shore a dreadful storm arose, so that the trees and the very rocks shook.111And all the heavens became black with stormy clouds, and the lightnings played, and the thunders rolled; and you might have seen in the sea great black waves, swelling up like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads.112And the fisherman crept towards the sea, and cried out, as well as he could:113‘O man of the sea!114Hearken to me!115My wife Ilsabill Will have her own will, And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!’116‘What does she want now?’ said the fish.117‘Ah!’ said he, ‘she wants to be lord of the sun and moon.’118‘Go home,’ said the fish, ‘to your pigsty again.’119And there they live to this very day.1 2← previousThe Twelve Dancing Princessesnext →The Willow-wren and the Bear↑ back to Grimms' Fairy TalesThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/11/page/2/