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( 23 ) Quoth Jack, now let me live or die,

I’ll fight this ſwinging boar;

Tho’ I'm but thirteen inches high,

and he ten yards and more.

A ſword he got five inches long,

a little cap of ſteel;

A breaſtplate too both ſtout and ſtrong,

quoth Jack I’ll make him reel.

Upon a badger’s back he got,

in order to proceed;

Thus being mounted cap-a-pee,

away he rode full ſpeed.

With double courage, ſtout and brave,

he did his valour Keep;

Then coming to the Giant’s cave,

he found him faſt aſleep.

His mouth it was not open wide,

but ſtood it ſeems half cock,

Jack down his throat with ſpeed did ride,

he never ſtood to knock.