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hasty-pudding. At which the Welch Giant seeing, cried out, Cuts plut, hur can do that hurtself: then taking the sharp knife, he ripped up his own belly from the bottom to the top and out droppet his tripes and trollybuds, so that hur fell down for dead; thus Jack outwitted the Giant, and proceded forward on his journey.


CHAP. VI.

How King Arthur’s son going to seek fortune, met with Jack; how they travelleng together, and of the wonderful things he performed.

KING Arthur’s son only desired of his father to furnish him with a certain sum of money, that he might go and seek his fortune in the principality of Wales, where a boutiful lady lived whom he heard was possessed with seven evil spirits; but the king his father advised him utterly against it, yet he