TREATISE 



of eating it up. Whereby we may conceive that the fpccies of 

 carrying his basket to his matter ( which cuttome had fetled in 

 his memory) was diibrdercd, and rhruft out of his fantafic, by a 

 Wronger, of fighting for his meat with the other curres : after 

 which it followed naturally in his fantafie , to cate what he had 

 fought for. And that lending then fpkits into his nerves, 

 agreeable ro the nature of it, and governing the parts depen- 

 ding of the braine , a motion and action en faed,, which was 

 futable to the objeft in the fanrafie ; and this could be none 

 other, but of eating what the/amalie found conformable unto 

 its nature, 



t. The baboone we have mentioned, might be taught fome 



of the Baboon lefTons trade on purpofe with very few Hops , and upon an in- 

 that played on ^ rumcllt: whereon all the firings may be firucken with one 

 blow , and but one fret to be yfed at a time , and that fret to be 

 /topped with one finger : ofwhich much labour and timemight 

 beget a habit in him : and then , imitation of the found/ might 

 make him play in due meafare. And if we will marke it in our 

 felve$,we mail fee, that although in the firft learning of a leffcn 

 upon the Lute, we imployour reafonand difcour/e about it ; 

 yet when we have it very perfeft, our fingers (guided by a flight 

 fantafie) doe fall by cuiiome , without any reflexion at all 3 to 

 play it as well as if we thought never fb carefully upon it. And 

 there is no companion, bctweene the difficulty of a. guittarre 

 and of a lute. 



I have been told that at the Duke of Florence his marriage, 

 there was a dance of horfes , in which they kept exa(ft time of 

 mufickc. The meanes ufed for bringing them to it,, is faid to 

 have been by tying and hampering their legs in fuch a fort, that 

 they could lift the n up but in a determinate way :. and then fet- 

 ting them upon a pavement, that was heated underneath ib hot 

 that they could not endure to ftand ftill 3 whiles fuch mnficall 

 ayres were played to them, as fitted their motions. All which 

 being often repeated, the horfes tooke a habit , that in hearing 

 3. thofe ayres.they would lift up their legs in that fa/liion ; andfo 



Of the reaching danced to the tune they had been taught. 

 of Elc P han " O f t he E lephants, it is &id that they may be taught to write ; 

 to doe diras t$ ^^ ^ at P urel 7 P n vvor fc and commanding tliem , they will 

 tricks, cioe what they are bidden ; and that they are able to kcepe ac- 



count, 



