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 named Blunderboar hearing of it, vowed to be revenged on Jack, if ever it was his fortune to light uppon him. This giant kept an enchanted caſtle ſituated in the midſt of a loneſome wood: Now Jack about four months after, walking near the borders of the ſaid wood, on his journey towards Wales, he grew weary, and therefore ſat himeſlf down by the ſide of a pleaſant fountain, where a deep ſleep ſeized on him; at which time the giant coming there for water found him, and by the lines written upon his belt, knew him to be Jack that killed his brother Giant, and therefore without making any words, he throws him upon his ſhoulder, for to carry him to his enchanted caſtle.

Now as they paſſed throw a thicket, the ruſtling of the boughs awaked poor Jack, who finding himſelf in the clutches of the Giant, he was ſtrangely ſurpriſed; yet it was but the beginning of his terrors: for at the firſt entering within the walls of the caſtle, he beheld the ground all covered with bones and ſculls of dead men. The Giant telling Jack that his bones would enlarge the number of thoſe that he ſaw This ſaid, he brought him into a large parlour where he beheld the bloody quarters of ſome that were lately ſlain, and in the next room were many hearts and livers; which the Giant to terrify Jack, told him, 'That mens hearts and livers were the choiceſt of his deit, for he commonly, as he ſaid, eat them with peper and vinegar: adding, that he did not queſtion but his heart would make him a dainty bit.' This ſaid, he locks up poor Jack in an upper room, leaving him there, while he went to fetch another Giant, living in the ſame wood, that he might be partaker in the pleaſure which they would have in the deſtruction of poor Jack.

Now when he was gone, dreadful ſhrieks and cries affrighted poor Jack, eſpecially a voice which continually cried,