A TREATISE 



fee that ror a oit or m.ucc tue/ incurre their deftrudtion :and 



yet neither the examples of their fellowes killed before their 



eves in the /ame purfuite , nor the blowes which themfelves 



ao feele ; can-krve them for warning, where the fenfe is fb 



ftrongly afte&ed ' but as foone as the blow that removed 



them is pafTed . ( if it miffe killing or laming them ) and they 



be gotten on wing agame, they will returne to their prey as 



eagerly and as confidently , as if nothing were there to hinder 



them. 



This then being the truereafon of all fympathy and antipa- 

 . thy , we cannot admit that any beafts fhould love or hate one 



That the An- another, for any othei caufe , then fome of thofe wee have 

 tipathy of touched. AH which are reduced to Jocall motion , and to ma- 

 Beails towards rtr j a ]j application of bodies of one nature, to bodies of an o- 

 waybc Taken t ^ ier ' anc ^ are ** we ^ tranfmitted to their young cnes , as be- 

 away by affue- gotten in themfelves : and as the fatisfying of their fenfe , is 

 more prevalent in the Happe fojes , then the feare which from 

 other grounds is begotten in their fantafy ; and fo wia 

 keth them approach to what the other would drive them 

 from. 



In like manner, any averfion ofthe fantafy may be mattered 

 not onely by a more powerfull agent upon the prefent fenfe, 

 but alfo by afTue faction , and by bringing into the fantafy 

 with pleafing circum fiances that object which before was dif- 

 pleafing and affrightfull to it : as we fee that all fort* of Beafts 

 or Birds, if they be taken young may be tamed and will live 

 quietly together. Dogges that are uled to hunt and kill Deere, 

 will live friendly with one that is bred with them 5 and that 

 Fawne which otherwife would have bin affraid of them, by fuch 

 education groweth confident and playeth boldely with them. 

 Of which we can no longer remaine in doubt, if we will be- 

 lieve the flory of a Tyger ( accounted the cruelieft beaft of all 

 others) who being fhut up with a Deere, that had bin bred with 

 him from a Kid and from his being a whelpe j and no meate 

 given him, ufed meanes to break prifbn,when he was halfe ftar- 

 ved , rather then he would hurt his familiar friend. You will 

 not fufpeci . that it was a moral! conhderation , which made 

 him fo Jdnde : but the Deere had never come into /us ian 



tafy 



