The eieventii Boolce of 



wliofc Gall is fingular good for many purpofes.; Oxe Gall in limming givetii a golden colour i G 

 TheSoothfaiers have dedicated it to Ncptune^^ the mighric power of Water.^»^^y?/^ the cm- 

 pcFour found two Gals in a beatt that he killed for facrificCjUpon that very day whereon hee ob- 

 tained that famous vidlorie at Adium* Some fay, that the lobes or fibres in the fir-all Livers of 

 certainc Miceand Rats^are commonly found to be ai^ many as the Mooneisdaicsold in every 

 month land looke how many daies you reckon of her light, fo many may you count the fibres 

 aforefaid. Alfojthat their liver groweth at midwintetjwhen daies be at (lioneft .In the kingdomes 

 of Grenada and Andalufia in Spaine^Connics are many times found with double Livers. The 

 land Frogs of Toads kind^have one lop or lappet of the Livcr^which Ants will not touch , be- 

 >: caufeofthcpoyfontherein3asisfuppofed. Liver of all things may be kept arid prefervedTon- 

 geft : and we read in ChronicleSjthat there have beenfound in fome cities long befieged^Livers ► H 

 in fait or powder^which had continued a hundred years.Serpents and Lizards have long Livers. 

 In that facrifice which Cafifia^P^oIaierranmkilkdj Dragons were feene to 'ifliie from among the 

 Entrailcs and the Liver ; and this turned to be a luckic prefage. And verily ^why fhould we thmke 

 this report or any other in facrifices, to be incredible ? confideringj that upon the very day that 

 king Pjy^/^^^ was flaine, the heads of thebeafts being flaine for facrifice, (notwithftanding they 

 were cut off from the bodies^) mooved forward upon the groundj and licked up their owne 

 bloud. ' , 



ThcMidrijJe. Theupmofl inwards of a man, to wit, the Heart and the LungSjaredcviced from the other 

 entrailes beneath, by certaine pellicles or rimm(?s of the Midriffe, which the Latinescall Pree- 

 cordi3(bec3u{e they are drawne and fet before the Heart as a defence:) and the Grcekes Phrc- I 

 nes.True it isjthat Nature in great providence hath enclofed all the noble and principall parts 

 wiihinfeverall skins and coats of their ownejwhich might ferve in (lead of fheathsand cafes for 

 theit better defence i but in this partition of the Midriffe,fhe had a more particular regard to the 

 propinquitie of the Stomacke and BelliCjleaft that the vitall parts being fo neare^fliould be op- 

 prelfed and fuffocated with the fleames and vapors of the meat therein boiling. To this part arc 

 we beholden for our quickewit^^this membrane of theMidriffe we may thank for our readie con- 

 ceit and underfbnding: to which effedl:, charged it is with noflefh,butcompofed of fine &fub- 

 tile rinewes-Thcfaraelikewifcis the very efpcciall featofmirth :as we may perceive evidently by 

 tickling under our arme hoies,unto which it reacheth :and as in no place of mans bodie the skin 

 ismorefineandtendcr,roit taketh as great plcafurc to betickled& lightly fcratchedthcre.And K 

 hereupon it is^ that in folemne combates of fword-fencers at utterance with the fharpe, as alfo 

 in field battels^we have many a time feene men wounded and thrufl through iheiVlidriffejto die 

 laughing. 



7'he ^Bellk or To proceed in our AnatomiCjall creatures having a Stomaclv or Read,are not without a Bcl- 

 Paumh, mth Hq undcrit.x^i^s many as chew cud,have the fame ^double or two-fold,the reft one and no more 

 the Guts. lodkc who want bloud,are without it alfo.For fome there be that have one entire gur5which 



fouSo'l!"^ beginneth at the mouth, and by a certaine wayredoublethandrcturnethbacke againe thither, 

 and namely ,the Cuttill andthe Polype. In man it is annexed to ihebottonK of tlie'Stomacke, 

 hkeasina Dog. And in thefetwaineonely, narrower itis in the lower part: whichistht^caufe, 

 that none but they doe vomite :for when their bellies bcefullj the ftreight paffage beneath kee- ^ 

 peth the meat from deicending,and fb it returneth upwacd iwhich cannot happen to them that 

 have it wide and large, whereby the meat is fooncrfentdowne into ite gutsbeneath. Next to 

 the bag of the Stomacke jmen and llieepe have the fmall guts called Lades, throu'ghvfhich the 

 «ieatpafleth:in others it is named He. Ncxtxinto which are the greatcrguts^thatrcachKinco the 

 Paunch •. and in man they are full of windings and turnings : which is thei reafoiiithkrasibarsy as 

 havea great fpacc betweene the Stomacke and thePautichy arc morebmgrie aKdi^eedie of 

 meat than others. And thofe who have the fatteft and moft greafief^ bsliresimoff commonly are 

 thcgrofleflof capacitie and underflanding. Some foules likewife have a two fold receptacle fos 

 their meat : the one fs the g[z2erjCraw,or gorge,whercin:they beftowat thefirf^ their meat when 

 they take it new : the other is theirue Stomacke indeed 5 into which they fend out of the farmer ^ NJ 

 the vi6luals alrcadie altcred^preparcdjand in good forwardnes of conc^^tion. And fuch Be HetB 

 and Pullcin, Coifls or Stock:- doves, Houfe- doves or Pigebns, and Partridges . AH chexefi in 

 manner want the faid gezzier^biitin ftead thereof have a wider gorge, wherethrough thcmsn 

 pafleth into the Stomackej asjChoughs^RavenSjand Crowes. Some againe theecbsq tiiat 



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