OF BODIES.Cbap.XXXVil. 



count,, and will leave working at a precife number of revoluti- 

 ons of the fame a#ion , which meafureth out their taske tinto 

 them. All which (as I faid before) if it were plainely and lite- 

 rally true,, would require very great consideration : but becaufe 

 the teachers of beafts havccertaine fecretsin their art, which 

 Zanders by doe not reach unto j we are not abJc(npon fuch fcan- 

 ty relation* as we have of them) to make fufficient judgement 

 how fuch things are done j unleffe wee. had the managing of 

 thofe creatures , whereby to try them in /everall occafions.and 

 toobfervewhat caufe produeeth every operation they doe; and 

 by what Heps they attaine urito their inftrudtions andfervice- 

 abienefle. 



It is true,the uncontrolled reports of them, obliege us to be- 

 leevefome extraordinary matter of their docility,andof firange 

 things done by them : but withal 1., theexampleof other taught 

 beafts among. uf, ando-f the ftrange judgements that are made 

 of them by perfons , who doe not penetrate into their cau/es, 

 may inftrud: us how eafie it is to miftake the matter ; and allure 

 KSj that the relations which are made us , doe not alwaies pun- 

 ctually agree with the truth of what paffed. He that fhould tell 

 an Indian what feats Bankes his horle would dee^how he would 

 rettore a g love to the due owner, after his matter had vvhifpered 

 that mans name in his eare ; how he would tell the jufi number 

 of pence in any piece of filvercoyne barely fhewed him by his- 

 mafter ; and even obey preiintly his command , in diicharging 

 himlelfe of his excrements whenfoever he bade him (ib great a 

 power art may have over nature:) would make him believe, ad- 

 mire moreat this learned beaft , then we doe at their docile E- 

 lephants, upon the relations we have of them. Whereas every 

 oneoFus knoweth 3 by what rneanes his painefall tntor brought 

 him to doe all his tricks ; and they are no whit more extracrdi- 

 nary, then a fawkners manning of a hawke , and training her to 

 kill partriges.and to flic at the retrive: but dee all of them (both 

 thefe.,andall other jugling artificies ofbea/h) depend upon the 

 iamCjOr like principles ; and are knowne to be but directions of 

 nature, ordered by one that compofeth and levelleth her opera- 

 tions to another end further off ( in thole adtions-J then fhe of 

 her felfe would aime at. The particulars of which, we need not 

 trouble our fdves :o meddle with. 



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