And then at length cry'd out, This is a woman!

Thumb. Then were the gods mistaken—she is not

A woman, but a giantess——whom we,

With much ado, have made a shift to haul[87]

Within the town: for she is by a foot[88]

Shorter than all her subject giants were.

Glum. We yesterday were both a queen and wife,

One hundred thousand giants own'd our sway.

Twenty whereof were married to ourself.

Queen. Oh! happy state of giantism where husbands