The eleventh Booke of 



gtOWnomorcin length. And therefore when they be young fucking foles^ a man ftajj fee the^ G 

 fcratch the care with the hinder-feet: which, as they waxe elder and bigger,they are not able to 

 • doe, becaule their leggcs thrive only in outward compafle^ and not in length. Which alfo is the 

 caufe, that when they be new foled.they cannot feed themfelves but kneeling.untill fuch time as 

 their necks be come to their full growth and juft proportion. 



Chap. xlix. 

 ^ of Dwarfa: aitd gemtdll parts i, 



THcrearc no living creatures in the world (even the very foiiles ofthe aire not excepted) but 

 in each kind there be dwarfes to be found. As for thofe males which have their in^rumcnts « 

 of generation behind, we have fufficiently fpoken. In Wolves, Foxes, Wccfils, and Fer- 

 tits, thole genitall members be of a bonie fubftance 5 and of them there be foveraign medicines 

 made,for to cure the ftone and gravell in mahs bodie engendred. The Beares pifle alfo^bcconv 

 meth as hard a^ an home (men lay) fo foone as his breath is out of his bodie. As for Camels 

 pifles, they ufe in the Bait countries to make their befl: bow-ftrings thereof, which they account 

 tobethefuref^ of all others. Moreover and befides,thegenitailpartsput a difference betweenc 

 nation and nation 5 alfo betweene one religion and another: for the prieftsof Cyhele (the oi-cat 

 mother ofthe gods) ufe to cut off th^ir owne members and to gyeld themfelves, without daun- 

 ger of death. On the contrary fide, (bme few women there be, monftroiis that way, and in that 

 part relemble men : like as wee fee there are Hermaphrodites , furnifhed with the members of > 

 bothfexe. In the dales of iV^r^? the Emperour, the like accident was feene (and never before) in I 

 Ibme four-footed beafts.For he, in very truth, exhibited a fhew of certaine Mares that were of 

 the nature of thofe Hermaphrodites, found in the territorie of Treviers in Fraunce : and they 

 drew togither in his owne coach. And verily a ftraunge and wondrous fight this was , To fee the 

 great monarch of the world, fit in a charriot drawne by fuch monftrous beafts. As touching the 

 Itones ofRamSjBuckes,and greater beafts, they hang dangling downe betweene their legs*, but 

 in Borcsjthey be truft togither,& knit up (hortclofe to their belly .Dolphins have thefe parts ve- 

 ry long,and the fame lying hidden within thcbottome of their bellies.In Elephants likewifc they 

 be clofc and hidden; In as many creatures as doe lay egges, the ftones fticke hard to their loines 

 within the bodie : and fuch bee ever mollquicke of difpatch in the zOl of generation, and foone 

 have done the feat.Fifhes and vSerpents have none at all ; but in flead therof there be two firings K 

 or vcines reach from their kidnies to their genitall member. The Buzzard (a kind of Hawke) 

 is provided of three iloncs. A man hath his cods fometimes bruifed and broken , either by 

 fome extraordmarie accidentjor naturally : and fuch as be thus hm%Q,iQ counted but halfe men, 

 and of a middle nature betweene Hermaphrodites and guelded perfons . To conclude, in all 

 living creatures whatfoever , the males bee flronger than the females, fetting afidc the race 

 of Panthers and B ear es. 



Chap, l. 



^ Of Taiks. h 



THere is not a living creature, excepting men and Apes, (take as well thofe that bring 

 foorth their young alive, as others that lay egges onely) but is furnifhed with a taile, for 

 the neceflaiieufe of their bodies. Such asbeeothcrwife rough-haired and briftly, yet 

 have naked tailes, as Swine: thofe that be long lliagged and rugged, have very little and fbort 

 skuts, as Beares : but as many as have lon^ ftde haires, be likewife long tailed, as Horfes . If Li- 

 zards or Serpents have their tailes cut olffrom theirbodies, they will grow againe. In fifbes 

 they fervc in good flead, as rudders and helmes to direct them in their Iwimming : yea^ they fic 

 their turnes as well as oares, to fet them forward as they flirre them, to this or that hand. There 

 be Lizards found with double tailes. Kinc and Oxen have the longcfl rumpe for their tailes |^ 

 of any other beafls: yea and the fame at the end, hath the greatefl tuft and bufhof hairc. Af^ 

 feshave the faid dockeor rumpe longer than horfes : and yet all fuch beafls either for faddle 

 orpackejhaveit fet out with long haires. Lyons tailes sre fafbioned in the verietip thereof, 

 like unto Kinc or Oxcnjand Rats : butPanthei's arc not in that wife tailed. Foxes and Wolves 



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