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for long life : nay, he hath this fign of thort life, that his bearing in the womb is bur 
-fhort,fcarce full forty days. __- : 
The Fox {eems to be well difpofed in many things forlonglife ; he is well skinned, 
feeds on fleth, lives in Dens ; and yet he is notednot tohave that property. Certainly 
) he isakind of Dog,aié that kind is but {hort-liv‘d. 
_ The Camel is along liver, .a lean Creature, and finewy, fo thathe doth ordinarily 
attain to fifty,and fometimesto an hundred years, . , 
+) .. The Horfe lives but to a moderate age, {carce to forty years, his ordinary period 
| is twenty years: but perhaps he is beholden for this fhortnefs of life to A4az; for 
| we have now no Hor{es of the Suz, that live freely, and at pleafure, in good paftures. 
Notwithftanding the Horf¢ grows till he be fix years old, and is able for gencration 
in his oldage. Belides, the eMare goeth longer with her young one than a woman, 
and brings forth, two at a burthen more rarely. The af lives commonly to the Horfe's 
age; butthe AZz/e out-lives them both, ’ 
». The Hart is famous amongf{t men for long life, yet not upon any relation that 
isundoubted. Theytell of a certain Hart that was found with a Collar about hisneck, 
‘and that Collar hidden with Fat.. The long life of the Hart isthe lefs credible, be- 
‘| caufe he comes» to his perfection at the fifth year ; and not long after his Horns 
( which, he iheds and renews yearly ) grow more narrow at the Root, and lefs 
» branched. — 
The Dog is but a fhort liver, he exceeds not the age of twenty years, and for the 
‘moft partlives notto fourteen years: a Creature of thehottefttemper, and living in ex- 
/treams ; for he is commoaly either in vehement motion, or fleeping : befides, the 
| Batch bringeth forth many ata Burden,and goethnine weeks. 
_- The Ox likewife, for the greatnefs of his body and {trength,is but a fhort liver,about | 
fome fixteen years, andthe eMales live longer than the Females ; notwithftanding they |: 
bear ufually but one at a burden, and gonine months : a Creature dull, flefhy,andfoon 
-fatted,and living onely upon Herby fubftances, without Grain, 
| The Sheep{eldomliyes to ten years,though he be a creature of a moderatefize, and 
excellently clad; and, that which may,feem a wonder, being a creatute with fo little | 
| a Gall, yet he baththe moft curled Coat of any other, for the Aa of no Creature is {o | 
much curled as ool is. The Rams generate not before the third year, and continue 
able for generation until the eighth. The Fwsbear youngas long astheylive. The | 
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‘Sheep isa difeafed Creature,and rarely lives to his fullage. 
~The Goat liyes to the fame age with the Sheep, and is not much unlike in other | 
_ | things; though he bea Creature more nimble, and of fomewhat a firmer flefh, ‘and 
-fo {hould be longer-liv’d; but then heismuch morelafciyious; and that {hertens his 
life. 
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___ The Sow lives to fifteen years, fometimes to twenty: and though it be aCreature } 
of the mifteft flcfh, yet that feems to make nothing to Length of Life. Of the Wild 
_ Boar Or Sow we have nothing certain. <i ee 
The Ca#’s age is betwixt fix andten years: a creaturenimble and full of {pirit,whofe 
feed ( as Allianz reports) burncth the Female; whereuponit is faid, That the Cat con- 
"| cesves with pain, and brings forth with cafe: A Creature ravenous in eating, rather 
fwallowing down his meat whole than feeding. : 
__ Haresand Conies attain fcarce to feven years, being both Creatures generative, and 
with young ones of feveral conceptions in their bellies, In this theyareunlike, that 
the Coney lives under ground ; and the Hare above ground; and again, that the Hare 
is of a more duskith fleth. 
Birds for the fize of their bodies are much lefler than Beats; for an Eagle ot Swan | 
ee a {mall thing in comparifon of an Ox or Horfe, and fo is an Effrich to an Ele= | 
ant. , 
. : Birds are excellently well-clad: for Feathers, for warmth and clofe fitting to the 
body, exceed Wooll and Hairs. wipes 
__ Birds, though they hatch many young ones together, yet they bear them not all in 
their bodies at once, but lay their Eggs by turns, whereby their Fruit hath the more | 
plentiful nourifh ment whilft it is in thetr bodies. , 
Birds chew little or nothing, but their meat is found whole intheir crops, notwith- 
ftanding they will break the {hells of Fruits, and pick out theKernels : they arethought | 
to be of avery hot and {trong concoction. ee, 
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