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named Blunderboar hearing of it, vowed to be revenged on Jack, if ever it was his fortune to light upon him. This Giant kept an enchanted castle situated in the midst of a lonesome wood: Now Jack about four months after, walking near the borders of the said wood, on his journey towards Wales, he grew weary, and therefore sat himself down by the side of a pleasant fountain, where a deep sleep seized on him; at which time the Giant coming there for water found him, and by the lines written upon his belt, knew him to be Jack that killed his brother Giant, and therefore without making any words, he throws him upon his shoulder, for to carry him to his enchanted castle.
Now as they passed throw a thicket, the rustling of the boughs awaked poor Jack, who finding himself in the clutches of the Giant, he was strangely surprised; yet it was but the beginning of his terrors; for at the first entering within the walls of the castle he beheld the ground all covered with bones and soulls of dead men. The Giant telling Jack that his bones would enlarge the number of those that be saw. This said, he brought him into a large parlour where he beheld the bloody quarters of some that were lately slain, and in the next room were many hearts and livers; which the Giant to terrify Jack, told him, 'That mens hearts and livers were the choicest of his diet, for he commonly, as he said, eat them with pepper and vinegar; adding that he did not question but his heart would make him a dainty bit.' This said, he locks up poor Jack in an upper room, leaving him there, while he went to fetch another Giant, living in the same wood, that he might be partaker in the pleasure which they would have in the destruction of poor Jack.
Now when he was gone, dreadful shrieks and cries affrighted poor Jack, especially a voice which continually cried,
