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entreth into his chbllerjhee beateth the ground with his tails : when hec grcsi'vetl^ into greater G 

 beatSj he flappeth and jerkech his fides and flanks withali,as it v^ere co quicken himfelfejaQd flirre 

 up his angry humor. His maine ftrength liethin his breaft : hee makeih not a wound (whether it 

 be by lalli oftaile/cratch of clav^jprpiiK of tooth)but the bloud that follom'eth.is blacke. When 

 hisbcllyis once fiill^all his angeris paft, and hedoth no more harmcHis generofide and mag^ 

 naniinitie he (hewejb.raoft in his daungers : whichxourage ofhis appeareth not onely herein. 

 That hefecmethtoderpifcallfhptof darts againfthim, defending himfelfe a long time oneiy 

 with ihe terrible afpe.^! of his countenancCjand protefting as it were that he is unwiiling to deak 

 iinlefle he be forced thereto in his owne defence, defendendo^ and at length makeih head a- 

 gaine, not as compelled and driven thereto for any perill that heleeth^ butangred actheir fol- 

 lie that slTaile and let upon him : but herein alfb is feen rather his noble heart andcourage^That w 

 bc there never fb.many of hounds and hunters both folloy^ing after hitn/o long as heeis in the 

 open plaines where he may be feenc/nee makcth femblance as though he contemned both dog 

 and man^difm arching and retiring with honour^and otherwhiles feeming in his retreat to turne 

 againe and make head jbut when he hath gained the thickets and woods^ and gotten once into 

 theforreftsoutof fightjthenheskuds away, then hee runneth amaine forlife.as knov\'ing iiill 

 well that the trees and buflies hide him, that his fhamefuU diilodging and flight is not then ei^ 

 pied. When he chafeth and followeth after other beafts, hee goerh alwaies faitant or rampant ^ 

 which he never ufeth to doe v^hen he is chafed in fightjbut is onely paflant.If hee chaunce to be 

 wounded, hee hath a marvellous eye to marke the partie that did it^ and be the hunters never lb 

 many in number, upon him he runneth onely. As for him that hath let flie a dart at him, and yet | 

 miffed his marke and done no hurt,if he chauncc to catch him, hee all to touzeth, fhakcth, toi^ 

 fcth, andturneth him lying along at his feet, but doth him no harmc at alibcfides . When the 

 Lionefle fighteth for her young whelpes, by report,flie fetteth her eies wiftly and entirely upon 

 the ground5becaufe fhe would not be affrighted at the fight of the chafmg-ftaves of she hunters. 

 Lions are nothing at all craftie ^fraudulent, neither be they fufpicious : they never look askew, 

 but alwaies cafkhcir eie diredly forward,&ihey love not that any man iliouldin that fort looks 

 fide-long upon them.It is conff antly beleeved,that when they lie a dying they bite the earth jSnd 

 in their very death ilied tcares.This creature,fo noble as he is,and withall fo crueli and fcll,trem= 

 blech and quaketh to heare the noife of cariwheeles, or to fee them turne about ; nay he cannot 

 abide of all things charriots when they be void and emptie : frighted he is with the cocks comb, ' ^ 

 and his crowing much more, but moftof all with the fight of fire. The Lion is never fickbutof 

 the peevifiines of his flomacke, loathing all meat : and then the way to cure him, is to tie un-o 

 him ccrtaine ("hec apes,which with their wanton mocking and making mowes at himjmay move 

 his patience and drive him for the verie indignitie of their malapert faucineffc3into a flt ofmacj- 

 nefle 5 and.then,fo foone as he hath tafled their blood,he is perfedly well againe : and this is the 

 onely remedie. M^c^vobrho. fbnneof Fuhlm^ was the firft at Rome that in his CuruleyEdile- 

 fhip exhibited a fight and combat of many Lions togithet, for to iliew the people pafiime and 

 pleafure: but i^.i)//*, who afterwards was Didatour, wasthefirf^of all others that in hisPre- 

 torfhip reprcfented a fl-jew of an hundredLions with manes and collars of hairc : and after him, 

 Pompem the Great fhewed 600 of them fighting in the grand Cirque, whereof 3 1 5 were male L 

 Lions with manc.And C^irDidatoiirbrought4oo of themintothe fhew-place.The taking of 

 them in old time wns a verie hard pecce of worke,and that was commonly in pit-fais : but in the 

 Emperor C/W//^/ his dales it chaunced, that a fhepheard or heardman who came out of Gse- 

 tulia,taught the manner ofcatchingthcm:a thing(otherwife) that would have been thought in- 

 credible, and alrogither unbefeeming the name and honour of fo goodly a beaf^.This Getulian 

 I fay, fortuned to encounter a Lion, and when he was violently aflailed by him, made no more 

 adoe but threw his mandilion or caffocke full upon his eies. This feat or cafi: of his wa s foone af- 

 ter pradifed in the open, (lie w -place, in fuch fort,that a man would hardly have belecved, but he 

 that faw itjthat fo furious a beafl iTiouId fb eafily be quailed and daunted fb foone as ever hee felt 

 his head covered,were the things never fo light ; making no refiflance, but fuffering one to doe M 

 what he would with him, even to bind him faff, as if in very truth all his vigor and fpirit refted in 

 his eyes. Lefle therefore is it to be marvelled at, th^t Lyfmdchu^ ffrangleda Lion, when as by 

 commaundement of Alexmder the Gr^at, he was iTiut up alone togither with him.The firff that 

 yoked them acRomc and made them to draw in a charriot,was M^Anmim^ And verily it was irs 



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