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heart and right foot with its breath [cum anima sua] be 
hung on a tree, the birds will gather together upon that 
tree, Albertus Magnus, ‘Of the Virtues of Animals.” 
Ox. 
Tue dewlap or freshlap that hangeth down under his 
throat and stretcheth to the legs is a token of gentle- 
ness and nobility in an Ox. | Oxen wax fat by washing 
with hot water. And Oxen with straight horns be ac- 
counted excellent in work, and black Oxen with little horns 
be accounted less profitable to working. Of Ox-horns be 
made tapping and nocks to bows, to arbalisters, and arrows 
to shoot against enemies, and breast-plates and other armour 
by the which unstrong places of man’s body be warded and 
defended against shot and smiting of enemies. And of Ox- 
horns be lanterns made to put off darkness, and combs to 
right and to cleanse heads of filth. Also writers and painters 
use the horns, and «keep in them divers colours at best. 
Also there is a little beast like to scarabeus, and hight , 
Burestis, and this burestis beguileth and betrayeth the Ox 
in the grass, and that is for the Ox treadeth on him. For 
this burestis lieth among herbs and grass that the Ox 
loveth, and hideth him therein, and the Ox swalloweth 
this beast burestis, and he chafeth suddenly the liver of the 
Ox, and maketh him break with great pain and sorrow. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 13. 
TueopHRastus approves of feeding Oxen with fish, but 
only with live fish. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. § 14. 
THERE are Oxen in India which will eat flesh like wolves, 
and have but one horn and whole hoofs; some also have 
three horns. There be Oxen in Leuctria have their ears 
and horns growing both together forth of one stem. The 
Oxen of the Geramants and all other neat among them feed 
with their necks doubled backward, for by reason of their 
long and hanging horns, they cannot eat their meat hold- 
ing their heads directly straight. There be Oxen in Phrygia 
which are of a flaming red colour, of a very high and 
winding neck; their horns are not like any other in the 
