neither be many furlongs diftant from each other, nor fromth^ 
Lords Manfion. 
Neither is there fcarce any Animal fo fierce, but may be tamed 
byMufic, orby fomeother way of Cimation \ moft of them for 
Human ufe-For proof of which,! referr to two ingenuous Chapters, 
the 8/^ chapt- of Mu[tc, and the uth of The Art of taming mid 
Beajls^ in the brief Treatift of Human hdujiry^ox Of Human Wit\ 
which deferves to be correfted, and reprinted, and continually 
augmented, as Arts grow on ; fo that this Treatife may grow on^ as 
Diflionaries have grown to more perfeftion. thefe are for words 
and difcoiirfes ; that for Realities, Arts, and Sciences. 
Since the moft furious of Mankind, and the fierceftof other A'- 
iiimals maybe tam'd byMufic (as is there inftanced f^4/>*S.) and 
fince the Crocodile, Serpents, Fifiies, and Sea-monfters may be 
made fond and ferviceable to Mankind, fas is copioufly there in- 
flancedr/^^/. I r.) we may thence hope and prefume , tfcat the Ci- 
curation of all Animals in the Groves and Woods, in the Wildemefs, 
§eas and Riyers,may hereafter come into moreefteem,and into more 
general ufeand praftife, than now it is 5 and more compleatly to 
affert Mans dominion over this whole Globe, than hitherto is at* 
rained. 
And that this difcipline is not a very Novelty, but (of old) be- 
longing to Agriculture, according to the ftaunch method of learn- 
ed Varro^ when he was 80 years old ; we have his teftimony /.3» de 
rufiica^c.i:^. ^uintm Orphea vocmjuffit^ qui cum eo venif^etcum 
fiola^ cithara^ ^ cantare ^jfet juffm^ buccinam inflavity ubi tantit 
cireumfluxit nos cervorum^ aprorumy ^ cMerArum quadrupedum mul'^ 
titudoy ut non minu^ formofum mihi vifnm Jit (pe^taculum, quam in ctT" 
40 maximc ^dilium nonfme Africanis befiiis cumfiunt irenationes^: 
r And /.3, c. 1 7. he gives us the like teftimony of the obedience 
and attention of Fiflies to the Pipe, ^uos proinde pfces (faith the 
Interlocutor) uffacri Jtnt, ac fanSiiores^ quam illi in Lydiay quo s fa* 
crificantitibiyVarroy adtibicinem Gracum gregatim venife dicfbas 
ad extremum Uttm^ at que aram ; quod eos cafere auderet nemo. — Sic 
hos fifces nemo tocm injtt^vocare audet^\ 
'Tis not now for our credit, toloofe any ground or footing of 
the Dominion,which our Anceftors long fince acquired.'Tis a noble 
Work, and work enough for fome ages to come. Statitis Sylvarum 
l2.Leo manfuetus Imp. reports the tamencfs and couragious fervice- 
a^blenefs of Domitians huge Lion: ^uid 
