OF BODIES. Chap. XXXViir. "403 



THE EIGHT AND THIRTIETH CHAPTER, 



Of preference of future tvfnts t frovidencift t the lowing of things 



never feene before j and fitch ethtr aftions t obftrvtdi* 



feme living creatures ; which fam to be even 



Above the reafon thut it in 



man himfr/ff, 



T He fourth and laft kind of adtions , which we may with la 

 aftoniiliment obferve among beafts, I conceive will Whybeaftcar*' 

 availe JittJe to infer out of them, that the creatures which affuid ofmca* 

 doe them,are endewed with reafon and under/landing : for fuch 

 they are, as if we mould admit that, yet we mould ftili be as far 

 to leeke for the caufes whence they proceed. What mould move 

 a lambe to tremble at the firft fight of a woolfe ? or a hen at a 

 kite never before feene ? neither thegrimmeft malUffe , or the 

 biggeft owicr, will at all affright them. 



That vvh ich in the ordinary courle ofnature.caufeth beafts to 

 be afraid of mentor of other bcafis, i* the hurt and theevill they 

 receive from them : which comming into their fantafie, toge- 

 ther with the Idea of him that did it , is alib lodged together 

 with it in the memory ; from whence they come linked or glew- 

 ed together , whenfbever the ftroake of any new ob/ed caileth 

 either of them backeimo the fantafie. This is confirmed by 

 the tamenefle of the birds and hearts, which the firft difcoverers 

 oflflands not inhabkated by men , did finde in thofe they met 

 withall there. Their ftories tell us .that at their firtt arrivall upon 

 ihoie coafis, where it ieemeth men had never been , the birds 

 would not flic a;vay, but fuftered the mariners to take them in 

 rheir hands : nor the beafls.which with us are wild, would runnc 

 from them ; but their difcourteous guefts ufed them fb hardly, 

 as they foone changed their confidence into diftrurt andaverfi- 

 on , and by little they grew, by their commerce wit/i men, and 

 by receiving injuries from thereto be as wilde^as any of the like 

 kind in our parts. 



From the darrtmes and fires , this apprehenfion and feareac 



Gg 4 thc 



