OF BODIES, Chap.XXXVI. 385 



tne hedge, and when we flruck him over the ribs with our poles , 

 he would not quit his hold, ( foftronglythefearcofthedogs 

 wrought in his fantafy ) till greater blowes knocked him on 

 the head. Which fheweth evidently that this action , was the 

 effect of chance prefltng his fantaly to do fbmething ; and not 

 any reafbn or diicourfe providing for his fafety : as we have al- 

 ready faid upon occafion of the others hanging among the dead 

 vermine in the warren. 



Thofe in Thracia > that will not goe over a frozen River, 

 when the yce is too thin to beare them, arc by their memory, 

 not by their judgement taught to retire; for ac other times 

 they have been wetted , when they have heard the noife of the 

 (hreame running under the yce ; or the very running of the 

 water calleth the fpeciefes of fvvimming out from their me- 

 mory, along with it into their fantafy (neither of which is plea- 

 ant to them in thewintejr ) and fb difliking the noife for the 

 other e6:ec"ts fake , that ufed to accompany it, they avoyde that 

 which begetteth it, and fb retire from the jriver. And the rea- 

 ibn of their lifkning to the noife , proceedeth frcm the fpirits, 

 that their paflfion upon appreheniion of a danger prefleth into 

 the nerves of their fenfes, as well as into the other nerves of 

 their braines j which accordingly maketh them fb vigilant and 

 attentive then to^ outward 'objects and motions. 



That the Jaccatray or Hyajna , when he is hungry, mould of tf *I 

 have his fantafy call out from his memory, the Images of thofe ^^ invent 

 Beafts, which ufe to ierve him in that occafion, is the ordinary in calling 

 ccurfe of nature : and that together vvith 'thofe images, there bcafttohim. 

 fliould likewife come along the actions and founds which ufed 

 to accompany them, and are lodged together vvith them in the 

 memory,, is alfb naturall ; then, as little ftrangeins, that by 

 his owne voyce he fliould imitate thoie founds, which at that 

 time do fo powerfully poffefTe hit imagination : and having a 

 great docility in thofe Organs which forme the voice, like a 

 Parrat he reprefenteth them fb lively , that the deceived beafts 

 flock to him , and fb are caught by him : which at the fit A hap- 

 peneth by chance y but afterwards by memor w v 3 and grovveth fa- 

 miliar to him. 



', Norcanweimagincl, that the Jaccall hath a defigne of fcr- 

 ving the Lyon 5 but hi$ nature bcmg(like a dog) to bark when j 



Fff he 



