taps,

He with a tiger at heel—her Giant, swarthy, colossal:

"I smell flesh of a man; yea, wife, tho' he prove but a

morsel,

Man tastes good." She replied, "Sure thou be'est failing

in eyesight;

'Tis but a young elephant, my sweetest lord, not a biped."

Down he crook'd his monstrous knees, and rested his hip-

bones,

Call'd for his hen, said "Lay so she, with a chuck cock-