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most the male is the greater ; as in man, pheasants, 

 peacocks, turkeys, and the like : and in some few, as 

 in hawks, the female. Some differ in the hair and 

 feathers, both in the quantity, crispation, and colours 

 of them ; as he-lions are hirsute, and have great manes : 

 the shes are smooth like cats. Bulls are more crisp 

 upon the forehead than cows ; the peacock, and pheas 

 ant-cock, and goldfinch-cock, have glorious and fine 

 colours ; the hens have not. Generally, the hes in 

 birds have the fairest feathers. Some differ in divers 

 features : as bucks have horns, does none ; rams have 

 more wreathed horns than ewes ; cocks have great 

 combs and spurs, hens little or none ; boars have great 

 fangs, sows much less ; the turkey-cock hath great and 

 swelling gills, the hen hath less : men have generally 

 deeper and stronger voices than women. Some differ 

 in faculty ; as the cocks amongst singing-birds are the 

 best singers. The chief cause of all these (no doubt) 

 is, for that the males have more strength of heat than 

 the females ; which appeareth manifestly in this, that 

 all young creatures males l are like females ; and so 

 are eunuchs, and gelt creatures of all kinds, liker fe 

 males. Now heat causeth greatness of growth, gen 

 erally, where there is moisture enough to work upon : 

 but if there be found in any creature (which is seen 

 rarely) an over-great heat in proportion to the moist 

 ure, in them the female is the greater ; as in hawks 

 and sparrows. And if the heat be balanced with the 

 moisture, then there is no difference to be seen between 

 male and female ; as in the instances of horses and 

 dogs. We see also that the horns of oxen and cows, 



1 That is, young male creatures. So we have merchants strangers, let 

 ters patents, &c. /. S. 



