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CURIOUS CREATURES. 



ambassage from our flocke, intreating that thou would'st 

 pray for us unto the common GOD, who came to save 

 the world ; the which words were no sooner ended, 

 but he ran away as fast as any foule could fly. And 

 least this should seeme false, under Constantine at 

 Alexandria there was such a man to be scene alive, and 

 was a publick spectacle to all the World ; the carcasse 

 thereof, after his death, was kept from corruption by 

 heat, through salt, and was carried to Antiocha that the 

 Emperor himself might see it. 



" Satyres are very sildom scene, and taken with great 

 difficulty, as is before saide : for there were two of these 

 founde in the woods of Saxony towards Dacia, in a 

 desart, the female was killed by the darts of the hunters, 

 and the biting of Dogs, but the male was taken alive, 

 being in the upper parts like a man, and in the neather 

 partes like a Goat, but all hairy throughout : he was 

 brought to be tame, and learned to go upright, and also 



