OF BODIES.XXXVII. 39? 



With a /mall reward , leaving her quarry to her mailer ; fb 

 that a ipedatour^who underftandeth not the myftery, nor ever 

 6\v hawking before , may well admire to fee a bird fo dutifully 

 and exa&ly obey a mans command : and may conceive fne 

 hath areatbnable fbule, whereby to underhand him , anddif- 

 courfe of themeanes to bring his purpole to eft-eel. Whereas 

 indeed , all this is no more , then to make her doe for you and 

 when you pleafe , the fame which (lie doth by nature to feed 

 her felfe. 



The cunning of dogs is begotten in the fame way. Coyduc&s 

 are beaten and whipped to what they are taught , like letting 

 dogs. Cormorants have their throats tied , that they may not 

 (vvallo.v the fifli they catch , but be conftrained to bring it to 

 the man that imployeth them; fb chat looking along ftep by 

 ftep , you mall meet with nothing but what is plaine and eafie 

 to be taught , and to be performed by fenfe and memory ; 

 without needing to attribute any difcourleor reafoningunto 

 beafts. 



Apes are likewise taught as dogs may be, to carry things to a 

 certaine houfe 5 where receiving what is given them , they re- 

 turne home with it : and you may be confident, this lerviceable- 

 nefle of the Ape , grew out of his being carried firft to the ta- 

 verne by the mayd or boy , who there gave him Ibmewhat that 

 pleaied him ; and then being made to carry the pot along by the 

 boy; and afterwards being made to carry money in 0ne hand, 

 and the pot in the other ; whereof Ibme drawer discharged him 

 of the one,and filled the other, and withall gave him a reward; 

 which alfb was repeated to him at his returnehome with his foil 

 pot: till at thelaft, when he was.fuftkiently ufed to this exercife, 

 he would of himlelfe goe ftraight thither^ as foon as he was har- 

 nefTed in fuch-fort as he ufed to oe for this fervice. Which appea*. 

 reth tobeafliiefeiHon and cuftome,not judgement^by his recei- 

 ving indifferently whatfoever is put into his pot. 



And by the tale of Lipfius his dog; from whom other JeflTe 

 doss, fnatehing as he trotted along, part of what hung out of his 

 basket (which he carried in his mouth) he fet it downe to werry 

 one of them whiles in the meane time, the others fed at liberty 

 and at eafe upon the meate that lay there unguarded; til he com- 

 ming backe to it, drove them away 3 and Iiimfelfe made an end 



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