When Albion chiefe capteine of the giants was slaine, the residue that remained at home in the Ile, continued without any rule or restraint of law, in so much that they fell to such a dissolute order of life, that they seemed little or nothing to differ from brute beasts: and those are they which our ancient chronicles call the giants, who were so named, as well for the huge proportion of their stature (sithens as before is said, that age brought foorth far greater men than are now liuing) as also for that they were the first, or at the least the furthest in remembrance of any that had inhabited this countrie. For this word _Gigines_, or _Gegines_, from whence our word giant (as some take it) is deriued, is a Greeke word, and signifieth, Borne or bred of or in the earth, for our fore-elders, specially the Gentiles, being ignorant of the true beginning of mankind, were persuaded, that the first inhabitants of any countrie were bred out of the earth, and therefore when they could go no higher, [Sidenote: _Terrae filius_ what it signifieth.] reckoning the descents of their predecessours, they would name him _Terrae filius_, The sonne of the earth: and so the giants whom the poets faine to haue sought to make battell against heauen, are called the sonnes of the earth: and the first inhabitants generally of euery countrie were of the Greekes called _Gigines_, or _Gegines_, and of the Latines [Sidenote: _Aborigines_. _Indigenae_.] _Aborigines_, and _Indigenae_, that is, People borne of the earth from the beginning, and comming from no other countrie, but bred within the same.