TbeHiflory of Life and Death. 



That his Be a 



ring 



the Wombe 



for long Life : Nay, he hath this figne of fhort Life 

 is b it fhort; fcarce full forty dayes. 



The Fox feemes to be well drfpofed,in many things, for long life; He is well skinned, 

 feeds on Flefh, lives in Dens; And yet he is noted nor. to have that propcrtie. Certain- 

 ly, he is a kind of £>0g;And that kind is but fhort liv'd. 



The Camel is a long Liver : A lean Creature,and Sinewy : So that he do ch ordinari- 

 ly attaine to Fifty; And fometimes to an hundred yeares- 



The Horfe lives but to a moderate Age; fcarce to forty yearcs ; His Ordinary Period 

 is Twenty yeares. But perhaps, he is beholding , for this fhortneffe of Life, to LMan \ 

 Fo» we have now no Horfes of the Sanne j That live freely , and at plealure , in good 

 pafturcs, Natwithftanding th: Horfe growes, till he be fix yeares old ; And is able for 

 Generation , in his old age. Befides, the Mare goeth longer with her young one than 

 a Woman : And brings forth two at a Burthen more rarely. IhzAffe lives commonly 

 to the Uorfes age; But the Mule out-lives them both. 



The Hart is famous amongft Men, for long Life ; yet not upon any Relation, that 

 is undoubted. They tell of a certain Hart-, that was found with a Collar about his Neck, 

 and that Collar hidden with Fat. The long Life of the Hart, is the leflfe credible, be- 

 caufe he comes to his perfection at the Eifth yeare ; And not long after his Homes ; 

 (which he fheds , and renewes yearely) grow more Narrow at the Root, and lefle 

 Branched. 



The Dog is but a fhort Liver : He ex ceeds not the age of Twenty years ; And for 

 the rhdft part lives not to fourteen yeares ; A Creature of the hotteft Temper, and li- 

 ving in extremes; for he is commonly , either in vehement Motion^or Sleeping, befides, 

 the Wjringeth forth many at a burthen,and goeth nine weeks. 



The Oxe likewife,for the Geatneffe of his body, and ffrength , isbut a fhort Liver; 

 About fome fixteen yeares: and the Males live longer than the Females'. Notwithftan- 

 ding,they beare, ufually, but one at a Burthen, and goe nine Moneths a Creature dull 

 flcfhy,and foon fatted,and living onely upon Herby fubfiances,without Graine. 



TheSheep leldome lives to ten yeares ; Though he be a Creature, of a moderate fize, 

 and excellently clad : And,that which may feem a wonder,being a Creature with fo lit- 

 tle a Gall, yet he hath the moft curled coat , of any other; for the Haire of no Creature, 

 is fo much Curled as ffooll is. The Rams generate not before the third yeare , And con- 

 tinue able for Generation, untill the eighth: The Ewes beare young,as long as they live. 

 The Sheep is a difeafed Creature} And rarely lives to his full age. 



The Goat lives to the fame age , with the Sheep ; and is not much unlike in other 

 Things ; Though he be a Creature more Nimble, and of fom-what a firmer Flefh ;and 

 fofhould be longer liv'd : but then he is much more la fcivious j and that fhortenshis. 

 Life. 



The Sow lives to fifteen yeares, femctimes to twentie : and though it be a Creature 

 of the Moilteft Flefh; yet that feemes to make nothing to Length of Life. Of the Wild 

 Bearjst Sow,we have nothing certaine. 



The Cats age, is betwixt fix , and ten yeares. A Creature nimble , and full of fpirit, 

 whofefeedj (As reported")) burneth the Female. Whereupon it is laid. That 



the Cat conceives with pain, and brings forth with eafe. A creature ravenous in eating, 

 Rather fwallowing down his Meat whole,than Feeding. 



Hares and Conies attaine fcarce to feven years 5 Being both Creatures Generative, 

 and with young ones, of feveral Conceptions , in their bellies : In this they are unlike, 

 that the Coney lives under Ground , and the Hare above Ground ; And againc, that 

 the Hare is of a more duskifh Flcfti. 



Birdsfox the fize of their Bodies, are much leffer than Beafis ■ for an Eagle, or Swan^ 

 is but a fmall thing in companion of an Oxe, or Horfe ; And fo is an E firich to an Ele- 

 phant. 



Birds are excellently well clad : For Feathers, for warmth , and clofe fitting , to the 

 Body,exceed Ww//,and Haires. 



Birds, though they hatch many young ones together, yet they beare them not all in 

 their Bodies at once: But lay their Eggcs byturnes: whereby, their Fruit hath the 

 more plentifull nourifhment.whillt it is in their bodies. 



Birds chew, little or nothing : but their meat is found whole in their crops: notwith- 

 standing they will breake the fhels of Fruits, and pick out the Kernels ; they are thought 

 to be,of a very hot and lhong concodtion. 



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