58 Cl&e or, 
Den; but if fhe perceive that me Hunters heve 
followed her, and have efpied their Den, Ihethen 
impiediately takes fome of her young ones in her 
mouth, and fome on her back, and carryeth them 
into fome high Tree. 
Again, he is often troubled' with fore eyes ; 
there are abundance of them almoll in all parts , 
except in Africa , and Namidia j and therefore 
Virgil was much raiftaken, when he fpeaks of the 
Bears of Africa • he never drinks as the Dog, nor 
fups up the water as other Creatures do, but as i t; 
were bites it up. 
Huntf-men have no device to entrap them fo 
well as by laying honey over the pit-fall, which 
they fmelling , come immediately to the jdace 
where it is, and fo are got j but they have feve- 
ral other wayes to entrap them ; one cannot more 
enrage a Bear^ thentoftrike or cut him on the 
Nofe, which is the tendered part about him jhencC 
the Proverb, As good take a Bear hy the N'ofe. 
Farther, it hath an inveterate hatred againft 
Horfes; and as in other Creatures, fo in this, their 
hatred remains after their death • hence it is re- 
ported, that a Bear will flye at the fight of a Hor^ 
fes skin. 
Thus much for the properties of this bead, we 
will nest confider what we may learn from it. The 
Holy Scripture compares the Per fan Monarchy to 
a Beaty becaufe as the Bear after he hath feized on 
any man as a prey, the fird thing he doth is to 
Sea off his skin, which is a (ign of his cruelty j fo 
the Fsrfian Kings were very cruel and inhumane in 
punyji- 
