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| Keywords: Curious creatures in zoology (14948325823).jpg CURIOUS CREATURES 33 <br> him Take the Romances of Chivalry Pacolet and <br> all the dwarfs were endowed with acute wits and there <br> was very little they could not compass but the giants <br> their ultimate fate was always to be slain by some knight <br> and their imprisoned knights and damsels set free A <br> dwarf was a cleanly liver but a giant was turbulent <br> quarrelsome lustful and occasionally cannibal Fe Fi <br> Fo Fum was the type of colossal man and as it is quite <br> a pleasure to whitewash their characters in these respects <br> I hasten to do so before further discoursing on the sub- <br> ject of these great men <br> It is Olaus Magnus who thus tells us <br> Of the sobriety of Giants and Champions <br> That most famous Writer of the Danish affairs Saxo <br> alleged before and who shall be often alleged hereafter <br> saith that amongst other mighty strong men in the <br> North who were as great as Giants there was one <br> Starchaterus Thavestus whose admirable and heroick <br> Vertues are so worthily extolled by him that there were 23574788 76213 32031 Page 33 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/23574788 1890 10 5962/bhl title 32031 Ashton John NameFound Magnus Biodiversity Heritage Library Curious creatures in zoology; with 130 illus throughout the text Monsters Are Real Animals University of California Libraries archive org bhl page 23574788 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/23574788 bhlMonstersRreal Halloween university of california libraries archive org bhlmonstersrreal Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-10-19 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/14948325823 2015-08-25 21 53 25 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Curious creatures in zoology Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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