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|havea greater Head of Horns; and whether the Head of aDecr, that by 
jage is more foisted, may be brought again to be more branched. For | 
thefe tryals and the like will fhew, Whether by art fuch hard matter can | 
‘be called and provoked. Ir may betryed alfo, whether Birds may not have | 
|fomcthing done to them when they arc young, whereby they may be made | 
| to have grearcr or longer Bills, or grearcr and Jonger Talons: And wic- | 
|ther Children may not have fome Wath, or fomething to make their | 
| Teeth better and ftrenger. Coral is in ule as an help co the Teeth of | 
| Children. | : : " 
| ‘Ome Living Creatures generate but ar certain feafons of the year ; a5 7580". 
|) Deer, Sheep, Wilde Coneys, Gc. and moft forts of Birdsand Fishes + Others adc 
} atany timcof the year, as (Mea; and all Domettick Creatures , as Hor{es, acne 
| Hogs, Dogs, Gats, oc. Thecaule of Generation atallfeafons, {eemeth robe Generation 
| Fulnefs; for Generation is from Redundance; This Fulnefs arifeth fromtwo Oe 
} caufes, Either from the Nature of the Creature, if itbe Hor; and Moift, and heicete ss 
| Sanguine, or from Plenty of Food. Forthe firft, Men, Horfes, Dogs, Gc. | the Womb, 
} which breed ar all feafons, are full of Heat and Moifture; Doves arethe full- 
jeft of Heat and Moilture amongt Birds, and therefore breed often, the 
| Tame Doye almoft continually. But Deer ate a Melancholick dry Creature; 
| as appeareth by their fearfulnefs, andthe hardne(s of their Plefh. sheep are a 
| cold Creature, as appeareth by their mildnefs, and for thar they feldom 
| drink. Moft forts of Birds are“of a dry fubftance in companfon of Beafls ; | 
| Fishes arecold. For the fecond catife, FulnefS of Food, «Ven, Kine, Swine; | 
| Dogs, cc. feed full. And we fee, that thofe Creatures which, being Wilde, | 
} generate feldom, being tame, generate often; which is from warmth and 
|fulnels of food. Wefindethat the time of going to Rut of Deer is in Sep- 
| tember, for thatthey need the whole Summers Feed and Grafs to make them 
| fit for Generation ; and if Rain come early about the middle of Septeniber; 
| they gotoRut fomewhat thefooner; if Droughr, fomewhatthe later, So 
Sheep, in refped of their {mall heat; generate about the fame time,orfome- 
hat before. But forthe moft parr, Creatures thar generate at certain fea- 
| fons generate in the Spring; as Birdsand Fifhes : For that the end of the 
| Winter, and the heat and comfort of the Spring prepareth them. ‘There is 
Jalfo another reafon why fome Creatures generate at certain feafons, andthat 
is the Relation of their timeof Bearing to thetime of Generation: forno 
Creature goeth to generate whileft the Female is full, nor whileft theisbufic 
Jin fitting, or rearing her young; and therefore itis foundby cxperience, that 
\if youtake the Eggs or Young-ones out of the Nefts of Birds, they will fall 
to generate again three or four times one after another: fee: 
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Of Living Creatures; fome are longer time in the Womb, andfome| 759. 
)fhorter. Women gocommonly nine Moneths; the Cow andthe Ewe about 
Mix Moxeths, Does go abont nine Moneths, Mares eleven Moneths, Bitches 
nine Weeks ; Elephants are faid to go two yeats, for the received Tra- 
dition of ten yearsis fabulous. For Birds there is double enquiry; the di- 
ffance between the treading or coupling, and the laying of the Egg; and 
again, between the Egglaid, and the difclofing orhatching. And amongtt 
Birds there is lefs diverfity of time then amongft other Creatures, yet fome 
jthereiss forsthe Hen fitseth bur three weeks, the Turky-hen; Goofe 
{and Duck, amoneth. Quare of others.. The caufe of the great difference 
jof times among't Living Creaures iss either from the nattireof the Kind; 
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