The tenth Boolce df 



herm the fimpcrour, there was a yong Raven hatched in a neaft upon the church of Caflor ahd G 

 P/?//«y^which J to make a mail how he could Bie^cooke his firft flight into a Oioomakers fhop juft 

 overagainft the faid church* Themaifterof the (hop was well ynough content to receive this 

 bird;, as commended to him from fofacred a place, and in that regard fet great ftore by it. This 

 Raven in fhort time being acquainted to mans fpeech.began to fpeake^& every morning would 

 flieiip to the top of theRoftra or publicke pulpit for Orations, where, turning to thtopen Fd- 

 rum and market place^he would falute and bid Good morrow to Tikrm Ca/ar ^{^nd after hinijto 

 Germmicm and Drufm the young princes,both C^^j, every one by their names : and anon the 

 people of Rome alfo that pafled by. And when hee had fo donejafterwards would flie againe to 

 the flioomakers fhop aforefaid.This dutie pradifed he and continued for many years together, 

 to thegrcat wonder and admiration of allmen. Now itfell out fo_,that another ftioomaker^who j| 

 had taken the next corviners fhop unto himjCicher upon a malicious envie that hee occupied fo 

 neere him,or fome luddaine fplene and paffion of ch0ller(as he would feeme to plead for his ex- 

 Cufe) for that the Raven chaunced to meuie a little, and fet fome fpot upon a paire of his fhoesj 

 killed the faid Raven.Whereat the people tookefuchindignationj that they rifing in an uprore^ 

 M drove him out of that fhreetj and made that quarter of the cittie too bote for him: and not 

 long after murdered him for it. Butcontrariwife, thecarkafleof the dead Raven Was folemnely 

 enterred^and the funerals performed with all ceremoniall obfequies that could bee devifed. For 

 the corps of this bird was beftowed in acoffinjcouchjorbed^and the fame bedecked with chap^- 

 lersandguirlandsoffrelTiflouresof all forts, carried upon the fhoulders of two blacke Mores, 

 with minftrels before,roundingthehauc boies,and playingonihefifejasfarreastothe funcrall • 

 fire;wkich was piled and made in die right hand of the caufcy Appia,two miles without the cit- ^ 

 tie,in a certain plaine or open field called Redicuh.So highly reputed the people of Rome that 

 readie wit and apt difpofition in a bird, as they thought it a fuflFicient caufeto ordainc a fumptn- 

 bus burial! therefore :yca,and to revenge the death thereof, by murdering a cittiten of Rome in 

 that citie5wherein many a brave man and noble perfbn died^and no man ever Iblemnized their 

 funerals : in that citie I fay which affoorded not one man to revenge the unworthie death of that 

 renowned Scipo Mmjlianm^-aiitQi he had woon both Carthage andNumantia. This happened 

 the fifth day before the Calends of Aprill, in the ycarewhen M,Servilimzx\dC,Ceflm were 

 Confulsof RoTie.M[oreover,evenatthisveryprefent,whenIwratc thishiftorie, Ifawmy felfe 

 a Crow belonging to acertaine knight of Rome, who brought him out of therealme of Grena- 

 do in SpainCjwhich was a very ftrange and admirable bird,not onely for the exceeding black co- ^ 

 lour of his fcathersjbut alfo for that he could pronounce and exprefic fb perfectly many words 

 and fentcnces together, and learned ftill new leffbns every day more than other. It is not long 

 fiiice that there went a great bruit and fame of a notable hunter in Erizena a, countrey of Afia, 

 whole name was Crater m Monoccros : that ufcd to hunt by the meanes and helpe of Ravens. His 

 manner was to carrie with him the(e Havens into the forreft,perching.upon his fhoulders and his 

 hunting homes : and thefe would feeke out and put up other wild ones, and bring them to him. 

 Thus by cuftome & ufe he brought his hunting to this good pailcjthat when he returned home- 

 ward out of the forrert,the wild as well as the tame would accompanie him. Some have thought 

 it worth the letting downe upon record,how there wasaRavenfeenein time ofa great drought 

 when water was hard to come by, for to caft (tones in to the bucket belonging to a fepulck e, 

 wherein there was fome raine water remaining toward the bottome,but fo deepe, that hee could 

 not reach unto it : and being afraid to go downe into itjby heaping up many ftonesjhe brought 

 the water to rifefo high^as he might drinke fufficient with caie. 



' ChA*'* XLlIIIi 



^ of Diomedes hh birds^ 



N Either will I overpafle the birds called Diomedea?, which king i//^^namcth Czuia.^'^i 

 Toothed they arCjas hee faith and they have eies as red and bright as the fire : otherwife 

 their feathers be all wliite.Who alfo affirmeth,that they evern)ore have two captains,thc 

 one for to lead the vaward,and the other for the reregard.With their bils they dig little trenches 

 and gutters in the ground j over which from fide to fide they lay ilickes acrofTe like hurdle ?^ very 



