Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete — John Shaqi
Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, CompleteHolinshed, Raphael
History
Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
common to them, and to the Gothlanders) more than of ships wrought of
wickers, sometime vsed in our Britaine, and couered with leather euen
in the time of Plinie, lib. 7. cap. 56. as also botes made of rushes
and réeds, &c. Neither haue I iust occasion to speake of ships made of
canes, of which sort Staurobates, king of India fighting against
Semiramis, brought 4000. with him and fought with hir the first
battell on the water that euer I read of, and vpon the riuer Indus,
but to his losse, for he was ouercome by hir power, & his nauie either
drowned or burned by the furie of hir souldiers.
But to proceed, when the said Albion had gouerned here in this
countrie by the space of seauen yeares, it came to passe that both he
and his brother Bergion were killed by Hercules at the mouth of
Rhodanus, as the said Hercules passed out of Spaine by the Celtes to
go ouer into Italie, and vpon this occasion (as I gather among the
writers) not vnworthie to be remembred. It happened in time of Lucus
[Sidenote: Lestrigo.]
king of the Celts, that Lestrigo and his issue (whom Osyris his
[Sidenote: Janigenes were the posteritie of Noah in Italie.]
grandfather had placed ouer the Janigenes) did exercise great
tyrannie, not onelie ouer his owne kingdome, but also in molestation
of such princes as inhabited round about him in most intollerable
maner. Moreouer he was not a little incouraged in these his dooings by
[Sidenote: Neptune had xxxiii. sonnes.]
Neptune his father, who thirsted greatly to leaue his xxxiii. sonnes
settled in the mightiest kingdoms of the world, as men of whom he had
alreadie conceiued this opinion, that if they had once gotten foot
into any region whatsoeuer, it would not be long yer they did by some
meanes or other, not onelie establish their seats, but also increase
their limits to the better maintenance of themselues and their
posteritie for euermore. To be short therefore, after the giants, and
great princes, or mightie men of the world had conspired and slaine
the aforsaid Osyris, onlie for that he was an obstacle vnto them in
their tyrannous dealing; Hercules his sonne, surnamed Laabin, Lubim,
or Libius, in the reuenge of his fathers death, proclaimed open warres
against them all, and going from place to place, he ceased not to
spoile their kingdomes, and therewithall to kill them with great
courage that fell into his hands. Finallie, hauing among sundrie other
[Sidenote: Lomnimi. Geriones.]
ouercome the Lomnimi or Geriones in Spaine, and vnderstanding that
Lestrigo and his sonnes did yet remaine in Italie, he directed his
viage into those parts, and taking the kingdome of the Celts in his
waie, he remained for a season with Lucus the king of that countrie,
[Sidenote: Galathea. Galates, or Kelts.]
where he also maried his daughter Galathea, and begat a sonne by hir,
calling him after his mothers name Galates, of whom in my said
Chronologie I haue spoken more at large.
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