i 5 o CURIOUS CREATURES. 



fed with Gates or barly, doth presently expell the paine 

 of the Sorenesse, if so be that it be 2 or 3 times 

 washed over with the juyce of young or greene Sea- 

 crabs beaten small together." But I could fill pages 

 with remedial recipes furnished by the horse. 



THE MIMICK DOG. 



"The Mimicke or Getulian Dogge," is, I take it, 

 meant for a poodle. It was " apt to imitate al things it 

 seeth, for which cause some have thought that it was 

 conceived by an Ape, for in wit and disposition it 



resembleth an Ape, but in face, sharpe and blacke like 

 an Hedgehog, having a short recurved body, very long 

 legs, shaggy haire, and a short taile : this is called of 

 some Cam's Lucernarius. These being brought up with 

 apes in their youth, learne very admirable and strange 



