The eighth Booke of 



wild Bores ; and laft of all, fallow Deere . But this dog making no reckoning of all this gamCj G 

 lay ftill couchant, and never ftirrednor made at them. This great Commaunder Alexander ^ a 

 man of a mightie fpirit and high mindjoffended at the lazineife and cowardife of fo great a bo- 

 diejCommaundcd that hcfhould be killed, and fo he was. Newes hereof went prefently to the 

 king of Albanie. Whereupon he fent unto him a fecond dog, with this melfagc,That he fhould 

 not make triallof this too againll fuch little beafts, but either fet a Lienor an Elephant at 

 him : faying moreover, that heehad in all but thofe two of that kind : and if heewere killed 

 iikewife, heewere like to have no more of that race and breed. L^/<"A^W^rmadenoftay_,buc 

 prefently put out a Lion, and immediately heefaw his backe broken, and all to. rent and tdinc 

 by the dog. Afterwards he commaundedto bring forth an Elephant, and in no fight tooke he 

 greater pleafure, than in this. For the dog at the firft with his long rough fhagged haire^that H 

 overfpread his whole bodie, came with full mouth, thundering (as it were) and barking terribly 

 againft the Elephant. Soone after he leapeth and flieth upon himjtifingand mounting againft 

 the great beaft, now of one fide, then of another: maintaining combate right artificially, one' 

 while availing, another while avoiding his enemie : and fb nimbly he beftirreth him from fide 

 to fide, that with continuall turning about too and fro, the Elephant grew giddie in the head, 

 infomuchas he came tumbling downe, and madethe ground to fhake under him with his fall. 

 Bitches breed and beare young every yeere lightly once : and the due time for them to be with 

 whelpes, is when they are full a yeete old. They goe with young threefcore daies. Their pup- 

 pies come blind into the world : and the more milke they fucke, the later it is ere they receive 

 ihcir fight : b ut as it is never above twentie daies ere they fee, fo they open not their eies under \ 

 feven daies old . Some fay, that if a bitch bring but one at a litter, it will fee by nine daies : if 

 rwainCjit will be ten daies firfl : and the more puppies fhee hath, the more daies it will be in that 

 proportion ere they fee. Moreover, that the bitch-whelpe that commethof the firft litter, fee 

 ^.tenge bugs and goblins. Thebeft of the whole litter isthatwhelpe, that is laflere it begin to 

 fee : or elfe that which the bitch carrieth firfl into her kennill.The biting of mad dogs are mgfl 

 dangerous to a man, as we have faid before, elpecially during the dog-daies, while thedog ftar 

 Syrius is fo horft: fortheythatarefobitten5lightly are afraid of water, which isadeadlyfigne. 

 To prevent therefore that dogs fall not mad, it isgood for thirtie or fortie daies fpace,to mingle 

 hens or pullins dung efpecially with their meat : againe^ if they be growing into that ragCjOr tain- 

 ted alrcadiCjto give themEHebore with their meat.' 



Chap.^ XL I. 

 ^ Jga'wfl the biting of a mid Dog, 



THe furc and fovcraigne remedie for them that are bitten with a mad dog,wfls revealed late- 

 ly byway of Oracle: to wir,the root of a wild rofe,c ailed the fweet Brier or Eglantine. Cc/u^ 

 melU writeth,That when a whelpe is jufl fortie daies old, if his taile be bitten off at the ne- 

 thermofl joint,& the finew or firing that commeth afier,be Iikewife taken away, neither the taile 

 will grow any more, nor the dog fallever tobeemad. Ihavemyfelfeobferve«, that among the 

 prodigies it is reported ,how a dog fometime fpake,as alio that a ferpent barked^that yeere when 

 r^r^^^wf the prowd was depofed and driven out of Rome* 



*GHA'ii»i XLII. 



of Horfes, and their nature^ 



THe fame Jlexandenhc Great, of whom erewhile wee fpakc, had a very f^raunge and rare 

 horfejwhom men called Bucephalus, either for his crabbed and grim looke, or elfe of the 

 marke or brand of a buls head, which was imprinted upon his fhoulder. It is reportedjthat 

 Alexander being but a child,feeing this faire horfe,was in love with himjand bought him out of 

 the breed and racfe oi^htlomcm the Pharfalian,and for him paied fixteene talents.He would fiif- |4 

 fer tlo man to fithinijnor come upon his backe, but L^lexander^ and namely,when hee had the 

 kings faddle bri, and was alfo trapped with roialf furniture : for othcrwife hee would admirany 

 whomfoever. The fame horfe was of apaffing good and memorable fervice in the warres: and 

 namelyjbeing wounded upon a time at the auault of Thebes^ he would not fuffer Akxmder to 



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