A
TRVE
RELATION
OF
THE
GIANT
THEVTOBOCVS
.
AMong
the
many
effects
which
this
great
mother
and
worke-mistris
Nature
hath
produced
in
this
vnder-world
,
the
excessiue
tallnes
of
Giants
hath
euer
held
one
of
the
highest
rancks
vpon
the
Theater
of
wonders
.
Euen
the
holy
Scripture
in
sondry
places
dtoh
beare
them
witnes
;
And
the
historiographers
in
the
description
of
their
so
huge
Collosses
&
other
relations
,
which
the
Poets
in
their
Giganto-machies
do
show
the
admiration
wherein
they
were
had
.
As
also
the
very
Etimology
of
their
name
doth
inferr
the
same
(
for
Giant
signifieth
a
Son
of
the
Earth
)
As
though
it
were
not
of
the
nature
&
possibility
of
men
to
be
gett
such
creatures
.
Hence
the
verse
Iuuenal
.
Sat.
4.
Vnde
fit
vt
malim
fraterculus
esse
gigantum
,
Seemes
to
inferre
an
vncouth
and
extraordinary
linage
,
as
proceeding
straungely
from
the
Earth
.
which
is
also
the
cause
that
som
who
for
their
hie
fortunes
thought
scorne
to
haue
so
low
a
birth
,
did
boldy
auouch
that
their
Ancestors
were
those
Angels
,
which
the
Greekes
&
Latines
call
Demones
and
Genii
:
as
if
it
Lactant.
Fir.
lib.
10.
cap.
15.
had
ben
impossible
to
Nature
to
haue
brought
forth
such
high
blood
as
they
thought
to
be
.
Or
that
that
great
worke-mistrisse
should
not
haue
bene
able
to
haue
imparted
them
,
both
an
extreame
heate
&
moisture
togither
,
the
true
causes
of
this
excessiue
tallnes
;
&
to
bring
this
sentence
to
effect
,
Operatur
natura
quantum
,
&
quandiu
potest
,
Ab
extremis
Picolomin
.
de
scientia
ciuili
gradu
10.
c.
9.
Arist.
9
de
natura
anima
.
ed
extrema
.
Natura
enim
in
suis
operationibus
non
facit
saltum
.
It
is
most
true
then
,
that
there
haue
ben
Giants
in
this
world
,
&
that
they
haue
had
men
for
their
fathers
,
not
only
before
,
but
also
long
after
the
floud
.
Otherwise
from
whence
should
Goliath
haue
come
?
from
whence
Og
King
of
Basan
?
the
first
being
6.
cubits
&
a
spanne
high
,
&
the
bed
of
the
other
9.
cubits
long
;
the
cubit
according
to
the
Greekes
being
2.
foote
,
&
to
the
Latines
one
foote
&
a
half
,
from
whence
all
those
Amachins
in
respect
of
which
the
Israelits
did
seeme
but
as
grashoppers
?
And
from
whence
all
the
rest
mentioned
all
along
the
Scriptures
?
Do
not
the
fathers
also
&
almost
al
Historiographers
testify
with
one
consent
against
all
hard
beleeuers
,
that
in
all
ages
,
since
at
one
time
or
other
,
there
haue
ben
men
of
such
great
&
extraordinary
height
?
S.
Austen
rehearseth
that
a
little
before
the
Gothes
affliction
there
was
at
Rome
a
woman-Giant
whose
Parents
did
not
exceede
the
common
stature
.
Plutarch
in
vita
Sertorii
.
3.
Plutarch
(
the
life
&
soule
of
truth
&
Antiquity
)
writeth
that
Sertorius
being
entred
the
Towne
of
Tingis
in
Africk
,
and
finding
there
a
mighty
,
long
and
huge
graue
,
where
then
Antheus
told
him
that
that
famous
Antheus
of
Libia
was
buried
;
a
hard
beleeuer
,
as
many
others
,
vpon
meere
incredulity
caused
it
to
be
opened
,
where
finding
indeed
a
mans
body
full
30.
cubits
long
,
with
much
wonder
&
solemnity
did
sacrifice
vnto
it
peace-offrings
,
&
religiously
caused
it
to
be
shutt
againe
.
Pliny
,
most
curious
in
the
inquiry
of
naturall
things
,
saith
that
in
old
Creta
,
now
of
later
yeares
called
Candia
,
a
great
earthquake
hauing
turned
vp
a
whole
mountaine
,
there
vnder
was
found
a
dead
coarse
46.
cubits
long
,
which
some
did
auouch
to
be
the
body
of
Arion
.
Philostratus
makes
mention
of
3.
others
of
the
same
length
,
one
of
whose
skulls
he
could
not
fill
with
72.
pints
of
Candia
.
Some
others
haue
sayd
that
one
of
them
was
30.
cubits
high
,
the
second
22.
&
the
third
12.
But
because
he
doth
only
describe
that
which
was
found
in
the
Iland
of
Cos
which
he
saith
was
18.
foote
long
,
not
otherwise
medling
with
that
of
Imbros
,
nor
of
Lemnos
found
by
Menocrates
,
I
am
contented
with
the
most
verified
things
.
Finally
all
historians
make
report
of
an
infinite
number
of
such
other
great
bodies
as
of
that
of
Orestes
being
7.
cubits
long
which
was
digged
vp
by
the
commaundement
of
the
Oracle
;
That
of
whome
there
are
yet
some
bones
to
be
seen
at
Valence
;
As
also
of
a
liue
woman
,
which
Zonaras
saith
was
a
long
cubit
higher
then
any
of
the
tallest
men
of
her
time
.
And
specially
of
the
Emperor
Maximinus
,
which
(
as
saith
Iulius
Capitolinus
in
his
life
,
according
to
Codrus
,
did
vse
his
wiues
bracelett
as
a
ring
to
his
finger
;
pulld
and
drew
whole
coaches
&
carts
loaden
after
him
,
broke
&
bruysed
to
dust
pouder
a
Topase
between
his
fingers
,
eate
at
his
meales
50.
&
60.
pound
of
flesh
,
dranke
a
certaine
measure
full
,
called
Amphora
Capitolina
which
is
no
lesse
then
the
eight
part
of
an
Hogs-head
;
&
did
wearie
out
20.
25.
&
30.
souldiers
in
wrestling
,
&
beat
downe
to
the
ground
ten
of
them
at
once
,
with
many
such
&
greater
deedes
that
cannot
but
argue
an
extraordinary
strenght
&
bignes
.
And
if
we
will
giue
credit
vnto
Virgil
in
that
great
peece
of
strength
he
doth
attribute
to
Turnus
in
his
combat
against
Aeneas
,
which
yet
is
not
likely
he
would
haue
fained
to
grossely
,
but
that
he
had
either
read
,
heard
,
or
seen
the
like
,
you
may
see
in
the
folowing
verses
,
that
he
alone
pulld
out
of
the
ground
a
huge
stone
&
cast
it
at
his
enemie
,
which
hardly
12.
other
men
could
haue
stirrd
or
lifted
vp
.
I
should
neuer
end
if
I
would
go
from
time
to
time
relating
euery
particular
which
is
found
in
the
stories
,
about
Giants
.
One
only
,
&
the
same
now
in
hand
,
(
belonging
to
the
King
of
France
,
which
for
some
speciall
causes
he
hath
most
graciously
lent
to
the
Printer
&
bearer
hereof
)
being
now
in
England
,
is
to
be
seen
,
as
it
hath
ben
already
thorough
most
Protestant
Countryes
,
for
a
present
&
ready
ey-witnes
vnreprouable
of
what
aboue
we
haue
sayd
.
The
same
bones
Monsieur
de
Langon
,
(
a
worthy
Gentleman
of
Daufine
in
France
)
found
in
a
Tombe
which
lay
in
a
peece
of
ground
of
his
,
called
to
this
day
and
of
olde
Giants-ground
,
where
he
had
occasion
of
building
,
&
therfore
of
digging
,
where
in
by
some
Tombe
was
accomplished
the
Profery
of
Virgil
,
Gradiáque
effossis
mirabitur
ossa
sepulchris
.
The
tombe
of
these
bones
,
30.
foote
long
was
found
some
17
or
18.
foote
deepe
vnder
the
ground
,
hard
by
an
old
Castle
in
times
past
called
Chaumont
,
now
Langon
,
neere
a
little
hillock
;
And
the
bones
within
were
some
putrified
by
reason
of
a
certain
slow
spring
which
was
found
there
,
&
what
bones
soeuer
the
water
or
moisture
did
touch
,
became
as
hard
as
stone
,
therfore
as
heauy
.
Some
are
yet
naturally
light
and
worme-eaten
as
commonly
olde
bones
are
.
Some
altogether
perisht
,
and
turned
to
dust
.
But
by
the
principal
peeces
that
are
heere
,
which
are
no
lesse
then
200.
waight
(
the
rest
being
to
heauy
to
carry
easily
vp
and
downe
)
the
bones
of
the
thigh
and
legg
sett
together
being
full
9.
foote
long
,
without
neither
the
foot
nor
the
ioint
;
wherby
it
may
easily
be
perceiued
,
that
(
what
soeuer
the
others
were
,
either
Orion
of
46.
foote
,
or
Antheus
of
30.
)
this
our
Giant
could
be
no
lesse
,
at
the
very
least
then
●6
.
foot
high
;
Which
yet
doth
suffice
ouer
&
aboue
to
rauish
with
admiration
,
such
as
shall
see
those
limbs
of
his
.
For
his
teeth
,
whereas
S.
Austen
saith
he
saw
one
vpon
the
sea
shore
at
Vtica
,
which
was
a
hundred
times
greater
then
any
of
our
common
ones
;
I
thinke
I
may
concurre
to
double
that
number
in
those
we
haue
101.
hands
,
to
show
,
whereupon
euery
body
may
imagine
what
an
ouen
he
had
for
a
mouth
,
what
a
gulfe
for
his
belly
.
And
that
I
may
not
longer
stand
vpon
euery
peece
we
haue
;
whereof
the
beholders
shal
be
more
sure
&
content
to
trust
their
owne
eyes
,
then
my
describing
;
I
le
tell
you
but
a
word
of
the
thicknes
of
his
vertebres
,
wherby
those
that
haue
euen
any
superficiall
skill
in
Anatomy
may
easily
iudge
the
whole
dimension
of
our
Giant
,
(
according
to
the
proportion
of
his
legge
and
thigh
aforesaid
)
to
haue
ben
aboue
25.
foot
,
euery
one
of
his
vertebres
being
almost
half
a
footlong
,
and
the
number
of
them
in
euery
man
28.
besides
those
5.
which
are
called
dissimilitudinary
,
whereupon
I
durst
almost
say
,
he
was
very
neere
the
whole
length
of
the
Tombe
it selfe
.
But
that
which
is
no
lesse
to
be
noted
then
his
extraordinary
height
,
is
his
owne
name
,
ranck
and
quality
thus
found
inscribed
vpon
his
Tombe
,
THEVTOBOCVS
REX
,
for
he
indeed
was
a
King
or
at
least
one
of
the
Kings
,
of
that
famous
Army
of
Theutons
,
Tigurines
,
Ambruns
and
Cimbrians
,
which
Marius
defeated
vpon
the
borders
of
Fraunce
towards
Italy
,
when
they
were
ready
to
enter
and
inuade
it
,
in
the
yeare
of
the
foundation
of
Rome
642
and
before
the
Incarnation
of
our
Sauiour
105.
For
his
name
,
quality
and
height
Florus
tells
it
vs
in
these
few
words
lib.
3.
cap.
3.
Certe
Rex
ipse
Theutobocus
quaternos
,
senosque
equos
transilire
solitus
,
vix
vnum
cum
f●geret
ascendit
,
proximoque
in
sal●●
comprehensus
,
insigne
spectaculum
triumphi
fuit
,
quippe
vir
proceritatis
eximia
super
●ropha●
opsa●manebat
.
King
Theutobocus
,
who
was
wont
to
leape
ouer
5.
or
6.
horses
,
did
scarce
get
vp
vpon
one
,
when
he
fled
away
;
And
so
being
taken
in
the
next
wood
,
was
a
wonderfull
ornament
to
the
Triumph
,
for
he
being
a
man
of
an
excessiue
height
,
was
higher
then
the
very
trophees
for
that
warr
.
Orosus
lib.
5.
cap.
16.
doth
rehearse
it
a
great
deale
more
at
length
,
and
surely
with
a
great
deale
more
truth
then
any
,
saying
that
these
Barbarians
came
with
their
huge
Army
to
assayle
Marius
in
his
owne
camp
,
neere
the
falling
of
the
riuer
Lisere
into
the
Rosne
,
with
whom
hauing
had
some
light
skirmishes
diuers
dayes
,
at
last
thinking
themselues
strong
enough
,
they
diuided
their
army
in
three
,
and
so
went
three
seuerall
wayes
;
wherby
Marius
took
time
to
dislodge
,
and
sett
his
Campe
in
a
place
of
more
aduantage
vpon
a
little
hill
,
commaunding
the
enemies
;
from
which
falling
to
battell
,
he
did
kill
200000.
of
them
and
tooke
8000.
prisoners
;
among
the
rest
making
mencion
of
their
king
which
either
by
error
of
report
,
or
of
former
scribes
,
or
late
Printers
,
he
calles
Theutobodus
,
who
(
saith
he
)
did
make
the
victory
more
glorious
by
his
death
.
As
also
afterward
the
very
women
,
who
seing
they
could
not
obtayne
from
Marius
,
freedome
for
their
bodies
,
and
liberty
to
serue
their
owne
Gods
according
to
their
custome
,
after
they
had
killed
,
first
their
owne
children
,
and
then
the
most
part
one
another
,
the
rest
did
hang
themselues
at
their
cart-wheeles
,
some
with
ropes
,
some
with
their
owne
hayres
.
I
know
some
will
say
with
Plutarch
and
Florus
that
Marius
did
ouerthrow
those
Barbariaus
in
another
part
of
France
hard
by
Aix
,
&
Marseilles
in
a
Prouince
which
is
farr
enough
from
Daufiné
;
And
that
the
Marsilians
did
inclose
their
vines
with
the
bones
of
those
that
were
the
slain
,
so
great
the
discomfiture
was
.
But
the
answere
is
ready
,
that
according
to
the
huge
numbers
whereof
this
floud
of
men
was
compounded
,
Marius
did
not
ouerthrow
them
all
at
once
,
by
reason
also
that
they
had
diuided
themselues
,
as
Orosus
saith
;
and
that
those
who
were
defeated
there
,
we
but
the
third
part
which
went
that
way
rowards
Italy
,
whome
Marius
also
ouertooke
and
cut
short
after
he
had
ouerthrowen
these
former
.
And
although
Florus
make
but
one
of
the
ouerthrowes
at
Marseilles
and
the
death
of
Theutobocus
;
yet
since
he
himselfe
doth
specifie
the
height
of
that
king
,
and
we
finde
him
buried
in
this
place
,
it
must
needes
folow
he
was
not
killed
very
farr
thence
.
Finally
though
we
had
not
those
strong
likelihoods
and
proofes
we
knowe
that
the
first
part
of
these
Barbarians
with
their
king
Theutobocus
were
defeated
not
farre
from
the
place
where
we
haue
found
his
Tombe
,
yet
the
modalls
of
the
stamp
hereunder
represented
,
that
haue
ben
found
therein
,
marking
so
cleerely
Marius
,
&
being
so
like
to
those
of
the
Amphitheator
of
Oranges
,
all
which
is
also
of
Marius
,
do
show
howsoeuer
and
proue
without
any
difficulty
,
that
this
our
Giant
was
none
els
then
Theutobocus
,
a
King
among
these
Theutons
,
and
other
Barbarians
,
whom
Consul
Marius
ouerthrew
vpon
the
borders
of
France
either
in
Daufiné
or
Prouence
,
brought
from
wheresoeuer
,
and
vpon
what
soeuer
occasions
,
to
be
buried
where
we
haue
found
him
.
A
true
Relation
of
the
Bones
of
Giants
,
which
are
to
be
seene
at
this
day
,
as
well
in
Germany
,
Brabant
,
Flanders
,
Holland
,
Frize
,
as
in
Italy
,
Lorraine
,
&
France
.
By
,
I.
B.
G.
THe
better
to
verifie
that
which
we
report
,
our
Theutobocus
of
an
Almande
race
,
wee
will
speake
a
word
of
the
bones
of
Giants
which
are
found
at
this
day
in
Germany
and
elsewhere
.
First
in
the
Citty
of
Wornes
,
which
is
thought
to
be
builded
by
the
Giants
,
there
is
found
the
tombe
of
a
Giant
called
Herusfephery
or
Iephem
of
the
Horne
,
with
a
certain
clouen
staffe
and
a
stone
wherewith
he
vsed
to
salute
himselfe
;
the
which
staffe
is
as
bigg
as
one
could
well
brace
in
his
armes
as
long
as
thirty
ordinary
paces
,
and
the
stone
fower
foote
high
large
downwards
ten
paces
&
vpward
,
before
in
the
fashion
of
a
piramyd
.
And
vnder
the
Town
house
there
are
many
bones
of
diuers
sortes
of
diuers
Beasts
very
huge
,
as
also
diuers
bones
of
men
,
as
the
broken
bones
of
the
arme
and
thigh
of
a
Giant
,
which
is
of
the
bignesse
of
a
foote
round
&
a
foote
and
a
halfe
in
length
,
and
that
of
the
thigh
of
the
like
bignes
,
but
two
foote
and
a
halfe
long
.
At
Openhoin
there
is
the
whole
bone
of
the
thigh
of
a
Giant
three
foote
and
a
halfe
long
,
and
they
say
hee
was
borne
in
the
same
house
where
the
bone
remaineth
,
the
house
is
called
vntill
this
day
,
the
house
of
the
Giant
and
is
not
solde
without
this
bone
.
At
Saint
Troy
there
was
found
within
the
Rhine
An.
1612.
the
bone
of
the
left
thigh
of
a
Giant
of
the
same
bignesse
that
this
of
Theutobocus
,
foure
foote
long
,
the
which
is
now
at
Cleues
in
the
house
of
Monsieur
Wiss●l
,
of
the
bones
there
were
none
but
the
inward
part
of
the
Bocace
ch.
68.
4
l.
del●genealogie
des
Dieux
.
skull
besides
that
of
one
thigh
,
yet
not
altogether
whole
but
somewhat
rotten
.
His
teeth
were
waighed
and
three
of
them
waighed
100
ounces
.
The
same
body
was
by
skilfull
men
iudged
to
haue
been
200
cubites
.
And
those
teeth
hang
to
this
day
with
chaines
in
the
Church
of
Drepano
.
In
the
Hage
hard
by
the
wood
there
is
a
Gentleman
who
hath
in
his
house
a
thigh
bone
3
foote
in
hight
,
and
in
thicknes
one
.
At
Rotterdam
algardener
hath
a
legg
bone
two
foote
long
,
which
he
found
in
an
Abbey
.
Holland
.
At
Greninghen
they
holde
it
for
true
,
of
a
Church
there
which
hath
beene
builded
by
Giants
without
any
Frize
.
ladder
.
It
is
25
foote
in
height
,
round
aboue
,
after
the
forme
of
a
Drum
,
and
40
foote
in
bredth
;
built
vpon
huge
foure-square
pillars
,
and
did
serue
for
a
kinde
of
house
and
strong
defence
to
them
,
500
yeare
before
Christs
comming
.
At
Francfort
there
is
a
iaw
tooth
or
grinder
as
they
tearme
them
,
as
big
as
ones
fi●t
which
is
in
the
handes
of
Monsieur
Malepart
.
At
Darmestat
there
is
in
the
house
of
the
Prince
many
bones
of
Giants
.
At
Bona
vpon
the
Rhine
,
there
is
to
be
seene
a
thigh
bone
of
a
Giant
fiue
foote
high
.
At
Ladebourg
fishermen
found
the
bodyes
of
two
Giants
the
one
30
foote
high
,
the
other
22.
who
tooke
away
onely
the
thigh
and
legg
bones
of
the
greatest
.
At
Manom
neere
Frankendad
,
hath
been
found
a
hip
bone
of
the
bignes
of
the
bullet
of
a
battring
Cannon
.
The
Duke
of
Bartens
hath
a
bigg
bone
of
a
mighty
Giants
thigh
,
which
hath
cost
him
very
deere
;
And
hath
beene
shewed
of
late
in
Paris
at
the
faire
of
S.
German
;
being
3
foote
and
a
halfe
long
.
And
in
the
time
of
Cesar
there
liued
a
merueilous
Giant
called
Druon
,
fifteene
cubites
high
full
of
horrible
and
cruell
tiranny
,
who
liued
in
a
very
strong
Castle
in
Brabant
scituate
vpon
a
marishe
by
the
side
of
the
riuer
Schaldis
;
the
which
Giant
constrained
all
that
past
that
riuer
to
leaue
there
the
moyetie
of
their
marchandizes
,
and
if
any
did
faile
all
was
forfeited
,
and
the
Marchant
lost
his
hand
.
Wherefore
the
place
was
named
Hantwerp
,
which
is
as
much
to
say
;
as
cut
off
the
hand
,
which
is
now
called
Anwerp
.
With
this
Giant
fought
a
Knight
of
Caesars
called
Brarius
and
brauely
slew
him
,
whence
it
is
likely
that
the
word
,
braue
came
Those
of
the
towne
of
Anwerpe
show
at
this
day
in
their
town-house
some
bones
of
the
said
Giant
,
which
are
of
marueilous
greatnes
.
At
Bruges
in
the
Prison
of
the
towne
vnder
the
gate
vppon
two
Irons
,
there
is
a
thigh-bone
bigg
in
the
middest
,
of
a
foote
in
roundnes
,
and
long
three
foote
and
a
halfe
,
and
is
said
to
be
of
a
Giant
which
builded
the
prison
without
a
ladder
.
At
Stenan
in
digging
the
ditches
of
the
Towne
hath
been
found
the
whole
bones
of
a
Giant
22
foote
high
in
the
time
that
the
Duke
of
Butkion
held
it
,
from
the
Duke
of
Lorraine
Two
yeares
since
there
was
found
within
3
leagues
of
Mets
the
head
of
a
Giant
which
was
as
bigg
as
the
barrel
of
a
drum
,
which
was
returned
to
the
said
Duke
,
sauing
three
teeth
which
some
speciall
Burgesses
of
that
Citty
keepe
to
themselues
.
Bocace
affirmeth
that
in
his
time
in
the
bottome
of
a
mountain
neare
the
citty
of
Drepan
in
Scicily
was
found
the
whole
Body
of
a
marueilous
Giant
,
in
his
full
proportion
holding
a
staffe
club
,
or
rather
a
t●ee
of
the
forme
of
a
mast
of
a
ship
,
the
which
staffe
being
touched
,
went
presently
to
dust
,
being
garnished
within
with
leade
,
which
being
melted
weighed
fifteen
quintals
,
euery
quintal
containing
a
hundred
pound
.
The
Body
being
likewise
touched
turned
to
dust
,
except
some
bones
and
three
of
his
teeth
.
In
the
Castle
of
Moulins
in
the
prouince
of
Bourthere
is
the
Picture
of
an
huge
bon'd
Giant
,
with
a
true
France
.
shoulder
bone
of
his
,
which
might
well
serue
for
a
table
to
six
men
.
All
which
thinges
are
yet
,
either
to
be
seene
to
this
day
,
or
read
in
faithfull
Authors
:
therefore
without
doubt
so
true
,
as
they
that
will
gaine
say
them
,
must
needes
be
euen
lesse
then
Pigmies
in
any
skill
,
witt
,
learning
,
or
iudgement
,
and
more
then
very
Giants
in
ignorance
,
rudenesse
and
brutishnesse
.
Admire
and
praise
God
for
his
mighty
and
wondrous
workes
in
Heauen
and
Earth
.
FINIS
.
depiction of man