<P> One day, a prince rides through the forest and hears Rapunzel singing from the tower . Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for her and discovers the tower, but is naturally unable to enter it . He returns often, listening to her beautiful singing, and one day sees Dame Gothel visit, and thus learns how to gain access to Rapunzel . When Dame Gothel leaves, he bids Rapunzel let her hair down . When she does so, he climbs up, makes her acquaintance, and eventually asks her to marry him . She agrees . </P> <P> Together they plan a means of escape, wherein he will come each night (thus avoiding Dame Gothel who visits her by day), and bring Rapunzel a piece of silk, which she will gradually weave into a ladder . Before the plan can come to fruition, however, she foolishly gives him away . In the first edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, she innocently says that her dress is getting tight around her waist (indicating pregnancy); in the second edition, she asks Dame Gothel (in a moment of forgetfulness) why it is easier for her to draw up the prince than her . In anger, she cuts off Rapunzel's hair and casts her out into the wilderness to fend for herself . </P> <P> When the prince calls that night, Dame Gothel lets the severed hair down to haul him up . To his horror, he finds himself staring at her instead of Rapunzel, who is nowhere to be found . When she tells him in a jealous rage that he will never see Rapunzel again, he leaps from the tower and lands on some thorns, which blind him . </P> <P> For months, he wanders through the wastelands of the country and eventually comes to the wilderness where Rapunzel now lives with the twins she has given birth to, a boy and a girl . One day, as she sings, he hears her voice again, and they are reunited . When they fall into each other's arms, her tears immediately restore his sight . He leads her and their twins to his kingdom, where they live happily ever after . </P>

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