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23 I will. 'Tis neither here nor there said she; if you do not death’s your portion.

At midnight she went as before, and was angry with lucifer for letting the handkerchief go; but now, said she, will kiss thee and he’s to shew thy lips, which she did. Jack standing near him, with his sword of sharpness, cut off the head, and brought it under his  coat to his master, who was in, and laid it at the end of the bolster. the morning when the lady came he pull'd it out by the horns, and  her the devils lips which she  last.

Thus having answer’d her twice, the broke, and the evil spirit  her at which time she appeared in  her beauty, a delightful and virtuous   They were married the next  in great pomp and solemnity,  soon after they returned with a  company to the court of King, where they were received  the greatest joy, and loud  by the whole court. Jack of