All call him their deliv’rer,
(The Giant race extinct) ;

His name throughout all ages
With these great deeds is linked.

Jack and his squire are knighted ;
Then soon the Priests appear
To celebrate the marriage,
And now another cheer.

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But who is this with Hedgehog,
This fair one by his side,

As lovely as a sunbeam,
Dressed also as a bride?

It is an old, yet young love,

And though her youth did change,
She ever has been constant ;

Their bliss is deep as strange.

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Two years she deemed him faithless,
Had mourned from dawn to eve ;
Restored now on the sudden,
She scarcely can believe.

The ceremony over,

The King, at Jack’s request,
Enters into his castle,

With many a noble guest.

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And sumptuous was the banquet,
And wine a mighty tide

Flowed from the well-filled cellar,
To toast the lovely bride.

And after heavy feasting
The monarch ordered in
A host of clerkly writers,
With many a parchment skin.