532. The eleventh Booke of 



eleatc, that they make the candIc(withinenclofed)tocaft the greater light.andfan^^ Hay^ G 

 they are good for many other toies of delight andpleaftire : infomuch^as fome paint & die theni 

 with fundrie colours, others vcrnilli and anneiie them : and yee ftall h3\'e men to make thereof 

 their fine inlaid woikes in Marquettrie of divers coloursicalled therupon Ceroftrata. All homes 

 in manner be hollow/ave that as they grow toward the pointed tip^ they bee ColidQ and maffie J 



onely Deeres both red and fallowjare found and cntier throughout: and every yeare they fall oC 

 HusbJindmen in the countrcyjwhen they fee their Oxe hoofes furbatted and worne too neere the 

 quidic with overmuch travell jannoint their homes with fweet greafe^and that is the vvay to make 

 theni grow againe. And in very truth the homes of tliefc beafts are of fo pliable a fubftance and 

 cafic to be wrought, that as they grow upon their heads^ even whiles the beafts arc livingj they 

 may with boiling waxe bee bended and turned every way as a man will ryeaj and if they bee cut H 

 when tlaey breake new forth out of the skinjthey may be cafily writhed to grow ievercd in fundry 

 4 pari:s/o as every head may fecmc to have fourc homes. For the moil: part, the homes of Cowes . 



^ arctnorc tender and thinner than the other : like as wee lee it is in the females of fmaller bea^s. 



o^hawi'fe." " "^^^^ ^^^^ "^"^ ^^^'"^ ^"^'^^ Does:no more than the beafls that have feet cloven and 

 devided into many toes tor thole that be whole hoofed, except the Indian AlTe, who is armed 

 w\ one horne and no more. Beafts cloven footed in twainejhave likewife two homes : but none 

 at 1^1 have they which are toothed in the upper mandible. They that make this reafon, Eecaule 

 themacter of their teeth runneth all into the homeland fo conttariwife 5 are deceived^and foone 

 convinced by this^That Hinds and Does arc toothed no more than Stags and B ucks, and yet arc 

 not homed . In other beafts the homes grow to the very bone of the head,in Deere onel'y they -J 

 come out of the skin_,and are graffed no deeper. Fifliesof ail living creatures have the biggeft 

 heads/or the,proportion of their bodies : haply^becaule they might the better dive under water 

 and finke to the boitome. No kind of Oifters have any head at all ; no more than Spunges, or 



any other in mannerjwhich want all their fences but onely feeling. Some havcheads indeed, but 

 within their bodie,and not devided apart from it,as Crabs and Creififlies. 



n^re. Mankind of all living creatures hath moft hairc on the head,even men as much as women:as 



we may fee in thofe countries, where they never cut their haire, but let it grow. And namely in 

 Savoy, Dauphine, andLanguedoc about the Alpes, where men and women both vscare long 

 haire: and thereupon a part of France is called Comat3.And yet this is not fo general], but thac 

 the nature of fome land and foile, may make fonie alteration and varietie . For the Myconians K 

 naturally have no haire at all : like as the Caunians be^U fubjed to thedifeafe of hard and^fwel- 

 ling Spleenes,evcn from their mothers wombe. Some reafonlefle creatures likewiie are by na- 



*0r rather Al- turebald,asOftriches,andcertaine*watcrRavens, which of the Greekes arc named thereupon 



pine, Phalacro-coraces. Seldome doe women l"hed their haire ckane,and become bald; but never was 

 there any guelded man knowne to be bald: nor any others that be pure virgins, and have not fa- 

 crificcd unto FenusJhc hairc growing beneath the ventricles of the brain,and under the crown 

 of thcheadjlike as alfo about the temples and eares/alleth not off quite.Man alone of all crea- 

 tures,groweth to be bald : I fpeak not of thofc that are fo by nature JVIen,womcn,and horfes,wax 

 gray haired : men and women both,begin at the fore-part of their heads to be griflic,and after- 

 wards behind.Men and women alone are double crowned, ' J 



Braiuc-pan. Some creatures have the bones of their skull flat,plainc,thin,and withoutmarrow : and the 

 famcunited and joined together by ccriaine futures or feames endented and toothed on cither 

 ridcs;,which run oneinto another, Theruptures andcrackesof the braine-pan cannot be confo- 

 lidated and faudred perfe^ly againe : Butif the fpils and peeces be gently taken forth, and but 

 fmail^ there is no daunger of death : for in their place there will grow a certaine callous cica- 

 trice,or flcfbie fubftance, that will fupplie in fome fort that defed* Beares of all others have the 

 tendereft skuisi and'P^rrotSjthe hardeft , as wc have faid before in place convenient, 



$rdmes. Moreover,all living creatures which have bloud,havc likewife brains : yea, and thole in the fea 

 vubich we call Soft-fiflies,although they have no bloud at all, as namely ,the Pour-cuttles or Po- 

 lypes.But man,for hfs bigneffean.dproportion hath the moft braine of all otiier : and the fame M 

 is the ifioifteft and coldeit part thaiiiehatii within his bodicEnfoldedit is within twotunicles or 

 kclsjboth above and beneath : vyhereofjif the one bee peirced and wounded, [to wit, P/4 

 there is.no way but prefent death. / Alfo, mencommonly have more braines than women. And 

 both of them havM§ij]bLCs |blou4 nQ? YcineSthetein :,^s fo£tl^at,which is iii other creatures, it 

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