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and pray keep them for my sake, for they are things of excellent use : The Coat will keep you invisible, the Cap will furnish you with knowledge, the Sword cuts asunder whatever you strike, and the Shoes are of extraordinary swiftness, these may be serviceable to you, and therefore pray take them with all my heart : Jack takes them, thanking his uncle, and follows his master.
Jack having overtaken his master, soon after arrived at the lady’s house, who finding the king’s son to be a suitor prepared a banquet for him, and being ended, she wiped his mouth with her napkin saying, you must shew this to-morrow or else lose your head, and she put it safely into her bosom.
The king’s son went to bed sorrowful, but Jack’s Cap of knowledge instructed him how to obtain it. In the middle of the night she called upon her familiar spirit to carry her to Lucifer. Jack put on his Coat of darkness, with his Shoes of swiftness, and was there as soon as her, by reason of his coat they could not see him. When she entered the place, she gave the handkerchief to old Lucifer, who laid it carefully upon a shelf ; from whence Jack brought it to his master, who shewed it to the Lady the next day.
The next night she saluted the King’s son, telling him, he must shew her to-morrow morning the lips that she kissed last this night, or lose his head. Ah, replied he, if you kiss none but mine I will.
