the prince was overcome with grief, and in his despair he threw himself from the tower. he escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell poked out his eyes . blind , he wandered about in the forest, eating nothing but grass and roots, and doing nothing but weeping and wailing over the loss of his beloved wife. thus he wandered about miserably for some years, finally happening into the wilderness where rapunzel lived miserably with the twins that she had given birth to