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18 court of King Arthur, as trophies of my unparalleled victory. And in teſtimony of the truth of what he had ſaid, he unlocked the iron gate, ſetting the miſerable captives at liberty, who all rejoiced like condemned malefactors, at the ſight of a reprieve: Then leading them together to the aforeſaid room, he placed them round the table, and ſet before them two quarters of beef, as alſo, bread and wine, ſo that he feaſted them very plentifully; ſupper being ended, they ſearched the Giant's coffers, where, finding a vaſt ſtore of gold and ſilver, Jack equally divided it amongſt them, they all returned him hearty thanks for their treaſure and miraculous deliverance. That night they went to their reſt, and in the morning they aroſe and departed, the captives to their reſpective towns, and places of abode, and Jack, to the Knight's houſe, whom he had formerly delivered from the Land of the Giant.

How Jack came to the Knight's Houſe, and his noble entertainment there, &c.

T was about ſun-riſing, when Jack mounted his horſe to proceed on his journey, and by the help of his directions, he came to the Knight's home ſome time before noon, where he was received with all demonſtrations of joy imaginable, by the Knight and his Lady, who in an honourable reſpect to Jack, prepared a feaſt, which laſted for many days, inviting all the gentry in the adjacent parts, to whom the worthy Knight was pleaſed to relate the manner of of his former danger, and the happy deliverance by the undaunted courage of Jack the Giant Killer, and by way of gratitude, he preſented him with a ring of gold, on which was engraven, by curious art, the picture of the Giant dragging a diftreſſed Knight and his fair Lady by the hair of the head, with this motto