stoope downe, and to gather vp stones, whereof in that place there was great plentie, which by his commandement they bestowed so freelie vpon [Sidenote:  Hercules discomfiteith his enimies.  Albion is slaine.] their enimies, that in the end hee obteined the victorie, and did not only put his adversaries to flight, but also slue Albion there in the field, togither with his brother Bergion, and the most part of all their whole armie.  This was the end of Albion, and his brother Bergion, by the valiant prowesse of Hercules, who as one appointed by Gods prouidence to subdue the cruell & vnmercifull tyrants, spent his time to the benefit of mankind, deliuering the oppressed from the heauie yoke of miserable thraldome, in euerie place where he came.

[Sidenote:  The occasion of the fable of Jupiter helping his son Hercules.] And by the order of this battell wee maye learne whereof the poets had their inuention, when they faine in their writings, that Jupiter holpe his sonne Hercules, by throwing downe stones from heauen in this battell against Albion and Bergion.  Moreouer, from henceforth was this Ile of [Sidenote:  How this Ile was called Albion, of the giant Albion. Iohn Bale.] Britaine called Albion (as before we haue said) after the name of the said Albion:  because he was established chiefe ruler and king thereof both by his grandfather Osiris and his father Neptune that cunning sailour reigning therein (as Bale saith) by the space of 44. yeares, till finally he was slaine in maner afore remembred by his vncle Hercules Libicus.

After that Hercules had thus vanquished and destroied his enimies, hee passed to and fro thorough Gallia, suppressing the tyrants in euerie part where he came, and restoring the people vnto a reasonable kinde of libertie, vnder lawfull gouernours.  This Hercules (as we find) builded the citie Alexia in Burgongne, nowe called Alize.  Moreouer, by Lilius Giraldus in the life of Hercules it is auouched, that the same Hercules came ouer hither into Britaine.  And this dooth Giraldus write by warrant of such Britons as (saith he) haue so written themselues, which thing peraduenture he hath read in Gildas the ancient Briton poet:  a booke that (as he confesseth in the 5. dialog of his histories of poets) he hath seene.  The same thing also is confirmed by the name of an head of land in Britaine called Promontorium Herculis, as in Ptolomie ye may read, which is thought to take name of his arriuall at that place.  Thus much for Albion and Hercules.

[Sidenote:  Diuers opinions why this Ile was called Albion.  See more hereof in the discription.] But now, whereas it is not denied of anie, that this Ile was called ancientlie by the name of Albion:  yet there be diuers opinions how it came by that name:  for manie doo not allow of this historie of Albion the giant.  But for so much as it apperteineth rather to the description than to the historie of this Ile, to rip vp and lay foorth the secret mysteries of such matters:  and because I thinke that this opinion which is here auouched, how it tooke that name of the forsaid Albion, sonne to Neptune, may be confirmed with as good authoritie as some of the other, I here passe ouer the rest, & proceed with the historie.