Jack and the bean-stalk : English hexameters (1886)
Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron, 1852-1928, Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886, ill · London ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 38
33 Calld for his hen, said, Lay ; so she, with a chuck cock- a-doodle, Dropt him an egg, pure gold, a refulgent, luminous oval,—That was her use :—when he pushd her aside, cried, Bring me the meat now,Gorged his enormous meal, fell prone, and lost recollection. 34 … 35 Jack from a saucepan watchd his broad chests monstrousupheavals : Then to the chamber above both dame and tiger ascended. Now for it, hist! says Jack— coast clear, and none tobehold me, Airily Jack stole forth, and seized the plump, money-laying, Priceless, mystical hen ;
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