A knight
must find the answer to the Queen's riddle: What do women desire most in all the world? If he
doesn't, then he'll be executed as a rapist and will lose his head on the block. The knight has
no choice, then, but to venture far and wide in his epic quest to keep his head where nature
intended it. He traverses the length and breadth of the kingdom, stopping numerous women along
the way, young and old, to ask them what it is that women desire most of all.
Unfortunately for the knight he gets several different answers from the women he asks.
Some say women want money most of all, others say sex. Still others insist that happiness is the
thing, whereas others are equally adamant that it's good looks, remarriage, flattery, or the
freedom to do as one pleases.
It's not looking good for the knight as he
approaches an ugly old crone, who promises to give him the answer to his question on condition
that he pledge himself to her. The knight reluctantly agrees, and the hag accompanies him
to...
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