OF BODIES, Chap.XXXVlII. 47 



bs the colour likewise, and fuch extancies or defers, as 

 may any way proceed from fuch a caufe , will happen to be in 

 thole parts, in which they were fanfied. And this is as farre, 

 as is fit to wade into this point, for fo generall a diicourfe as 

 ours is; and more then was neceflary for our turne : to the 

 ferving whereof, the verity of the fad onely, and. not the 

 knowledge of the caufe, was required: for wee were to fhevv 

 no more, but that theapprehenfions of theparents,may defcend 

 to the children-. 



Outofthisdifcourfe, the reafcn appeareth, why beaftshave 

 an avcrfionfrom thole, who ufetc doe them harme : and why 

 this averfion defcendeth from the old ones to rheir brood ; 

 though it mould never have happened that they had formerly 

 encountred with , what at the n'rft fight they flye from and 

 avoid. 



But yet the reafon appeareth not, why (for examp'e) a 

 fiieep in England (where r.here are no wolves bred, nor have *. 

 been thefe many ages) mould be afraid , and tremble at fight jjj[ s Annp3 ' 

 of a Wolfe, fince neither he , nor his damme or fire, nor theirs 

 in multitudes of generations, ever law a wolfe, or received hurt 

 by any. In like manner, how mould a tame wea/ell brought 

 into England from Ireland (where there are no poyfbnous- 

 creatures ) be afraid of a toad as foone as he leech one ? Nei- 

 ther he, nor any of his race, ever hadany imprefTions- following 

 harme; made upon their fantaiies : and as little can a Lyon re- 

 ceive hurt from a houiliold Cocke : therefore we mu(l ieeke 

 the reafons of thefe and fuch like antipathies a little further and 

 we mall find them hanging upon the fame fixing, with iympa- 

 thies proportionable to them. 



Let us goe by degrees : wee daily fee that dogges will have 

 an averfion from Glovers, that make their ware of dogs skins -* 

 they will barke at them , and be churlifh to them, and not en- 

 dare to come neere them , although they never fa w them be- 

 fore. The like hatred they will exprefle to the dogge killers in 

 the time of the plague , and to thofe that flea dogges. I have 

 kno,vnofaman that ufed to be imploved in fuch aftaires, who 

 palling fbm^times over the grounds neere my motheri 

 houfe (for hee dwelled ac a village not farre off) the dogges 



would 



