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 inviſible coat, the better to perfect and complete the dangerous enterprizes that lay before him.

travelling over vaſt hills and wonderful mountains, when at the end of three days, he came to a large and ſpacious wood through which he muſt needs paſs, where on a ſudden to his great amazement he heard dreadful ſhrieks and cries: Whereupon caſting his eyes around to obſerve what it might be, beheld with wonder, a Giant ruſhing along with a worthy knight and his fair lady, which he held by the hair of their heads in his hands, with as much eaſe, as if they had been but a pair of gloves; the ſight of which melted poor Jack into tears of pity and compaſſion: wherefore, he alighted off from his horſe; which he left tied to an oak tree, and then putting on his inviſible coat, under which he carried his ſword of ſharpneſs, he came up to the Giant and though he made ſeveral paſſes at him: yet nevertheleſs, it could not reach the trunk of his body, by reaſon of his height, tho' it wounded his thighs in ſeveral places: but at length giving him a ſwinging ſtroke, he cut off both his legs, juſt below the knees, ſo that the trunk of his body, made not only the ground to ſhake, but likewiſe the trees to tremble with the force of his fall, at which by mere fortune, the knight and his lady eſcaped his rage, then bad Jack time to talk with him, ſetting his foot upon his neck ſaid, thou ſavage and barbarous wretch, I am come to execute upon you the juſt reward of your villany. And with that running him through and through, the monſter ſent forth a hideous groan, and yielded up his life, into the hands of the valiant