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It was no where , replied the princess , spritelily , till my countrymen gained it from the sea -- Indeed , moppet ! said his majesty ; and pray who were your countrymen , before you had any country ? Your majesty asks a vey shrewd question , said she , which I can not resolve on a sudden ; but I will step home to my library , and consult five or six thousand volumes of modern history , an hundred or two dictionaries , and an abridgment of geography in forty volumes in folio , and be back in an instant . Not so fast , my life , said the emperor , you must not rise till you go to execution ; it is now one in the morning , and you have not begun your story . My great grandfather , continued the princess , was a Dutch merchant , who passed many years in Japan -- On what account ? said the emperor . He went thither to abjure his religion , said she , that he might get money enough to return and defend it against Philip 2d .