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Lycaon, and men oppressed therewith, Lycaones, because 

 that there was one Lycaon, as it is fained by the poets, 

 who, for his wickednes in sacrificing of a child, was by 

 Jupiter turned into a Wolf, being utterly distracted of 

 human understanding, and that which the poets speake 

 of him. And this is most strange, that many thus 

 diseased should desire the graves of the dead." 



THE ANTELOPE. 



When not taken from living specimens, or skins, the 

 artists of old drew somewhat upon their imaginations for 



their facts, as is the case with this Antelope, of which 

 Topsell gives the following description : " They are 



