A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1592. 



it hath beene sayde, and specially for swine (when as 

 that province hath no swine at all) it is utterly false : 

 for dogges it is no marvell, when as not kings courts 

 were ever, or at this day are destitute of them, as it is 

 well knowen to all men. But as touching dogges after- 

 ward in the seventh section. 



Victuals, &c. Whither beasts meate may fitly be 

 termed by the name of Victus, a man may justly doubt : 

 when Doletus interpreting a peece of Tullie, saith : As 

 for Victus (sayth he) wee will so expound it with the 

 Civilians, namely that we comprehend under the word 

 of Victus all things necessarie for the life of man, as 

 meate, drinke, attire of the bodie, &c. And Ulpianus 

 de verborum significatione defineth Victus in the very 

 same words. But in this place the saide authors call 

 beasts meate by the name of Victus. 



But let us see what trueth and plaine dealing is to 

 be found in these men. We have no labouring cattell 

 besides horses and oxen : these have grasse and hay 

 (except where haye is wanting) for their fodder, and water 

 to drinke. Now, the very same writers confesse, that 

 the Islanders live by fish, butter, flesh both beefe, and 

 mutton, and corne also, though it bee scarce, and brought 

 out of other countries. Therefore they have not the 

 same foode with brute beasts, which notwithstanding the 

 [I. 579.] sayde writers affirme in these wordes : They and their 

 cattell use all one victuals or food. What Munsters 

 meaning is in this clause, he himselfe a little before hath 

 plainely taught. 



Island (saith he) conteineth many people living onely 

 with the food of cattell, and sometimes by taking of 

 fishes. But what else is the food of cattell, but the 

 meat of cattell, saith Doletus ? Unlesse perhaps Munster 

 calleth the food of cattell, cattell themselves slaine for 

 the foode of men : whom, as I thinke, the use of the 

 latine tongue doth gainesay, which hath taught us that 

 as men doe eate, so beasts doe feede, and hath termed 

 the victuals of men, and the food or fodder of catteL 



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