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to affirme that there are in Horsses divine qualityes, 

 understanding things to come, for, being tyed to their 

 mangers they mournd for the death of Patroclus, and 

 also shewed Achilles what should happen unto him ; 

 for which cause Pliny saieth of them that they lament 

 their lost maisters with teares, and foreknow battailes. 

 Accursius affirmeth that Ccesar three daies before he 

 died, found his ambling Nag weeping in the stable, 



which was a token of his ensewing death, which thing 

 I should not beleeve, except Tranquillus in the life of 

 Ccesar, had related the same thing, and he addeth more- 

 over, that the Horsses which were consecrated to Mars 

 for passing over Rubicon, being let to run wilde abroad, 

 without their maisters, because no man might meddle 

 with the horses of the Gods, were found to weepe abun- 

 dantly, and to abstaine from all meat. 



" Horsses are afraid of Elephants in battaile, and like- 



