Tlie eighth Booke of 



they keepcjthat in the end with very clafping and clipping they kill them many times . Apes that 

 be headed and long fnoutcd like dogs^and thereupon called Gynocephali, are of all other moft 

 curft3fhtcwd3& unhappie : like as the Marmozets and Monkies called Sphinges & Satyri^are the 

 gcntleft & moftfamiliar.As for thofe which they call Callitrichesjthey be clean of another form 

 and lhapc all over in a manner*They have a beard on theirvifage, and the fore-part of their tails 

 (prcadcth broad. But this creature isfaidtolive in no other climate but in ^thyopia where it 

 brecdeth* 



Chap* lv* 



o; 



^ OfHamandCentiiesi, 



.F Hares alfo there be many forts.Vpon the Alpes and fuch high mountaincs^they bee of n 

 f colour whitc/o long as the fnow lieth ; and it is verily thought,ihat all Winter long they 

 live with eating of fnow: for furely, when it is thawed and melted, all theyeare after they 

 bcbtowncandteddifh as before : and a creature it is otherwife bred in extreamc and intollerable 

 cold. Of the Hares kind arc they alfo^ which in Spainc they call Connies, which arc exceeding 

 fruitfulljandof wondcrfull encrcafe : in fuch fort, that having devoured all the come in the field 

 before hatveft in the Baleare Iflands,they brought thereby a lamine upon the peoplci There is a 

 moft dain tied illiferved up at the table5madcot Leverets orRabbets,eithercutoutof the dams 

 belliesjor taken from them when they be fuckers, widiouteleanfingthem atall of the garbage j 

 and fuch the Latinescall Laurices. It is knowne forccrtainejthelflanders ofMajoritis^and Mi- 

 norisiifmade meanes to the Emperour Augufm Cafir for a power of fouldiours to deftroy the j 

 infinite increafe of Connies among them.Ferrets are in great account for chafing and hunting 

 of thefeConnies. Themanneris to put them into their earths, which within the ground have 

 many waics and holes like mines, and thereupon thefe creatures are called Cmiculr. and when 

 they are within,they focourfe the poore Connies from out of their earth,that they arc foon ta- 

 ken above ground at the mouth of their holes, ArchcUus writeth,That looke how many recep- 

 tacles and waies of paflagCjthe Hare hath for his dung and excrements, fo many ycares old he is 

 juft. And verily,fome have more than other's. The fame writer is of opinion, that every Hare is 

 both male and femalcjand that any of them can breed without the Bucke.Certes herein Nature 

 hath (hewed her bountieandgoodneffe^in that (be hath given this creature (fo goodtoeac^and 

 fo harmelelTe otherwife) the gift of fertilitie andfruitfull.wombe. The Hare, naturally expoftd to ^ 

 be 3 prey and game for all mcn,is the onely creaturCjUnlefTe it be the Connieagaine called Da- 

 lipusjwhich after it be once wiih young,conceiveih againe upon it : infbmuch,as at one time flie 

 hath fome Leverets fucking of her, others in her bellie ; and thofe not of the fame forwardnefle, 

 for fomeofthcm are covered with haire,othersarenaked without any downeund there be again 

 ^ of themjthat as yet are not l'hapenatall,but without all forme, Moreover,men have alTaicd to 

 • ' ^ ^ make clotii of Hares and Connies haire :but in the hand they are not fb foftjas is the fur re upon 

 the skin or cale neither will they laft,by reafon that the haire is fhortjand will foone fhed » 



Chap. lvi. 



^ Ofbeaflshdfctamc, ^ 



AS for Hares,(eidome be they made tamCj and to come to hatid : and yet juitiy they cannot 

 be called fimply wild. For many other fuch creatures there be befides, that neither are h- 

 vage,noyet tame and gentle, but of a middle nature betweene both. As namely among 

 flying foules in the air€,thc Swallow ; iikcwife the Bee : and among fiflies^the Dolphin in the fea,- 



Chap. tvii. ♦ 



IN theranke of thofe that be neifhet tame not wild,many have ranged the Mice and Rats tliat ^ 

 haunt our houfes^ A creature this is of no fmall reckoning for prefaging Ibmewhat to a ftatCj 

 by fome (Grange and ptodigioiis tokens. By gnawing the filvct fhields and bucklers at Lavini^ 

 ijm, they portended and forc-fhewcd the Marfian warrc. Vnto Carboiht lord General!, by ea;- 

 tingofhishofe-garters andflioe-flringsat Clufium, they prognofticated his death. Many forti 



; , . there 



