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Now amongſt the vaſt aſſembly there preſent, were five aged gentlemen, who were fathers to ſome of theſe miſerable captives, whom Jack had lately ſet at liberty; who, underſtanding that he was the perſon who performed theſe great wonders, immediately paid him their venerable reſpects: After which, their mirth increaſed, and the ſmiling bowl 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 Thunderful, a huge Giant with two heads; who, having heard of the death of his kinſman, the above-named Giant, was come from the northern pole in ſearch of Jack, to be revenged on him for their moſt terrible downfal, and was within a mile of the Knight's ſeat, the country people flying before him, from their houſes and habitations, like chaff before the wind. When they had related this, Jack, not with a tool to pick his teeth, and you gentlemen and ladies, 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 conſented, every one wiſhing him good fortune, in that great and dangerous enterprize.

How Jack overthrew the Giant on the Moat, and cut of both his heads, &c.

HE ſituation of the Knight's houſe, take as follows: It was placed in the midſt of a