Plinies Naturall Hifton'e; ^J^f 



The fca Swallowes have them evermore nioift and drenched in thefea. As for the Batjhe is afraid 

 to wet them, and therefore flieth about houfen^S^ his wings befides are divided into joints, Thi 

 haircs that grow forth of a thick skin^ard eommonl'thard and grofle :' but evermot(i thinner atid 

 finer in thefemalesJnHorfes and Mares they grow at length upoft their maines. Libn^ slfo hav4 

 them long about their fhoulders and foreparts. Connies have long haires about their chceke^; 

 yeajandwithin-forth-.as alfointhefolesof their feet: and fo hath the Hares^ according to the 

 opinion oiTrogm : who thereby colledlethj that Jiairie men likewife are more letcherous than 

 others. The hairicft creature of allpther is the Hare.In mankind only there groweth haire abouc^^ 

 the privie parts: & whofoever wanteth it^man or woman^is holden for barrcn,& not apt for gene- 

 ration.Haircs in men and women arc not all of one fort : for fome they bring widlthem intoithe 

 B. worldjOthcrs come up & grow afterwards *Tiiole that they have from their mothers wombejdo 

 not lightly fall andfhedjScieaft of all in women. Yet ihall ye havefome women to fhed the hairs 

 of the head by occafion of ficklinefle : as alfo other women to have a kind of downe upon their 

 face ; and namely, when their monethly flcures doe Iby upon them. In fbme menjthe latter kind 

 of haires, to wic^ of the bcard^&c. will not come of their ownc accord,withoui the helpe of Art. 

 Foure -footed beafts dos-Hied their haire yeercly, and have it grow againc . Mens haire of their 

 heads^ groweth mod : and next to it, that of their beards.If the haire be cutjit groweth not again 

 at the cut end, but fpringeth from the root . It groweth apace in fome ficknelTcs, and molf of 

 all in the confumption of the lungs,and in old age, yea and upon the bodies of the dead. In iea^ 

 cherous perfons, the haire oftheir head, browesjand cyc-lids, with which they came into the 

 Q world, doe fall more early than in others : but thofe that fpring afterwards,grow fooncr againe,^ 

 if they be cut or lliaven. The wooll and haire that foure- footed beafts doe bearc,is more courfe 

 and thick by age,buc it commeth not in fuch plcntie as before. And fuch have alwiiies their back 

 well covered with haire and wooll^but their bellies bare. Of Kineand O^e hides fodden , there is 

 ' made glew : but tlie Bulls hide hath no fellow for that purpofe. Man only of all males, hath evi- 

 dent paps in his breafts : other creatures have little nipples onely in Qiew of teats. Neither have 

 all females teats in their breait.but only fuch as are able to fuckie their young. None that lay egs 

 have paps :nor any have milkeunlcffe they bring forth their young living: and yet of all foules 

 1 muft except the Bat alone. As for the illfavoured ScritchowlesjCailed Stryges,I thinke they be 

 but tales that goe of them: namely. That they will give milkcout oftheir breafts to young in- 

 D fants. True it is, all men agree in this, That the manner was in old time, to ufe in curfing and exe- 

 ciation^thetearmeof Scrlx, but what bird it fhouldbe^Ifuppofe no manyetknoweth. 



Chap, xl. 



pf^ Notable ohfervatms in living creatures^ as touching their tap . 



SHee Afles are much pained with the ach of their Vdders,when they have folcd : and there- 

 fore after fixe moneths, they will not give them any more iucke : whereas mares doe fuckie 

 their colts a whole yeare almoft . Thofe beafts which be whole houfed,and have not above 

 two young at once, have all of them two Paps and no more, and thofe in no other place els, but 

 E betweene their hinder legges. Such as be cloven-footed.and horned likewife, have them in that 

 place: but Kme have foure teats, Ewes and Goats but two apeece. Such beafts as be very fruit- 

 full and bring many young, and likewife whofc feet be parted into toes,thefe have many nipples 

 or teat-heads all along their belly, difpofed and fetin a double courfe; as namely, Sov5es:of 

 which, thofe of the better kind have twelve ; the common fort, but ten . Alfo Bitches after the 

 fame manner. Some beafts have foure teats in the mids of their belly, as the Panthers: fome 

 twainc and no more, as the LioneiTe . The Elephant alone hath twaine under his fhoulders or 

 legs before, and thofe not evident in the breaft;part,but fbort therof and lying hidden as it were 

 within the arme-pits. And generally5tione that have their feet divided into toes,have Vdders be- 

 hind under their hin-legs. A Sow,at every farrow, giveth the foremoft nipples to thofe pigs that 

 p come firft, and fo in order as they be farrowed:and thofe teats be they that arc next to her throat 

 and higheft. Every pig knoweth the own pap, and will take it & no other, when it commeth firft 

 into the world s and thereof it isnourillied. If a pig be taken from the Sow, the milke of that pap 

 will dric up prefently, or retucne backe, and the pap it felfe fall flat to the belly. Alfo if it chance 

 that but one fucking pig be left^that pap alone will do the part and let downe milke, which Na- 

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