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 picture of the Giant dragging a diftressed knight and his fair lady by the hair of the head, with this motto:

Now amongst the vast assembly there present, were five aged gentlemen, who were fathers to some of those miserable captives which Jack had lately set at liberty, who understanding that he was the person that performed those great wonders, they immediately paid him their venerable respects. After which, their mirth increased, and the smiling bowls went freely round to the prosperous success of the victorious conqueror; but in the midst of all their mirth, a dark cloud appeared, which daunted all the hearts of this assembly.

Thus it was, a messenger brought the dismal tidings of the approach of one Thunderdel, a huge Giant with two heads, who, having heard of the death of his kinsman, the above mentioned Giants, was come from the northern pole in search after Jack, to be revenged on him for their most miserable downfal and was within a mile of the kight'sknight's [sic] seat, the country people flying before him from their houses and habitations, like chaff before the wind. When they had related this, Jack not a white daunted, said, Let him come. I am prepared with a tool to pick his teeth, and you ladies and gentlemen, walk but forth into the garden, and you shall be the joyful spectators of this monstrous Giant's death and destruction. To which they all consent, every one wishing him good fortune in that great and dangerous enterprize.