can come to me? I am a Giant with three heads,
and besides thou knowest I can fight five hundred men."

"O! but," quoth Jack, "here's the King's son coming with one thousand
men to kill you."

"Oh! Jack, this is heavy news indeed; I have a large vault underground,
where I will hide myself, and thou shalt lock, bolt, and bar me in, and
keep the keys till the King's son is gone."

Jack, having secured the Giant, he returned and fetched his master. They
were both heartily merry with the wine and other dainties which were in
the house; so that night they rested in very pleasant lodgings, whilst
the poor uncle, the Giant, lay trembling in the vault underground.

Early in the morning, Jack furnished his master with a supply of gold
and silver, and set him three miles forward on his journey, concluding
he was then pretty well out of the smell of the Giant, and then returned
to let his uncle out of the hole, who asked Jack what he would give him
in reward, since his castle was not demolished.

"Why," quoth Jack, "I desire nothing but the old Coat and Cap, together
with the old rusty Sword and Slippers, which are at your bed-head."

"Jack, thou shalt have them, 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 show this to-morrow or 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 familial-spirit to carry her to Lucifer. Jack put on his Coat
of darkness, with his Shoes of swiftness, and was there as soon as she;
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 showed it
to the lady the next day. The next night she saluted the King's son,
telling him he must show her to-morrow mornin