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white. The Goat does not see well in the day-light ; but 
its sight is more acute by night. The eyes of the Goat 
shine by night, and they throw out light. Also he-Goats 
have more teeth than she-Goats. Goat’s cheese appeases all 
wounds and pains if laid upon them. Their hoofs burnt 
and pounded with liquid pitch cure baldness. Their blood. 
does as much ; and if it be drunk destroys venom. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. § 22. 
Upon provocation the he-Goat striketh through an 
ordinary piece of armour or shield at one blow,—his force 
and the sharpness of his horns are so pregnable. Goats 
foresee and foreshew change of weather, for they depart 
from their stables, and run wantonly abroad before showers, 
and afterward, having well fed, of their own accord return 
to their folds again. Goats take breath through their 
ears; and certain Goats have a certain hole or passage in 
the middle of their head, betwixt the horns, which goeth 
directly unto the liver, and the same stopped with liquid 
wax suffocateth or stifleth the beast. There is no_ beast 
that heareth so perfectly and so sure as a Goat, for he is 
not only holp in this sense with his ears, but also hath the 
organ of hearing in part of his throat. With Goat’s milk 
wine is preserved from corruption by sourness, Of the suet 
and fat of Goats are the best candles made, because it is 
hard and not over liquid. The blood of a Goat scoureth 
rusty iron better than a file. The loadstone draweth iron, 
and the same, being rubbed. with garlic, dieth and loseth 
that property, but being dipped again in Goat’s blood, 
reviveth and recovereth the former nature. In ancient time 
they made fruitful their vineyards by this means :—they 
took three horns of a female Goat, and buried them in the 
earth with their points or tops downward to the root of 
the vine stocks. The gall of a female Goat put into a 
vessel and set in the earth hath a natural power to draw 
Goats unto it. Herein appeareth the pride of this beast, 
that he scorneth to come behind either cattle or sheep, but 
always goeth before. Goats love singularity, and may well 
be called schismatics among cattle; in great stocks they are 
soon infected with the pestilence. The wild Goats of Crete 
eat dittany against the strokes of darts; and Goats by lick- 
