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p’uni filing offenders and Malefadors, as Camhy- 
(ei , who inflidled this punifhment on an unjuft 
man, viz.. He commanded his skin to be flead off. 
There are three things, efpecially, to name no 
more, in which the Perfim Monarchy and a Bear 
are alike, 
I. As a Bear doth exceedingly love and delight 
in Honey, which 'by-the fcent they find out; fo 
the Per fans are meer gluttons and Epicures, who!-. 
,ly given to delight and pleafure ; being prodigal 
in Cloaths, and no lefs in the furniture of their 
Houfes, it being common among them to have 
golden Tables, and Beds of the lame j neither do 
they cbme behind hand in luft and uncleannefs, for 
€ambj[es defloured bis own Sifters ; and Herodotus 
reports of them, in his fifth Book, that it was a Cu- 
ftom among them, at any feaft , or banquet, for e- 
very one to bring in his Concubine. 
: 2. As Bears are often troubled with fore Eyes • 
fothe had very little skill or infight in 
Military affairs ; fo Heredotas , lib. 7. affirms 
that Xerxes brought an Army into the field, con- 
fifting of alraoft an incredible number, yet he 
could not fubdue the Gracim Monarchy : fo like- 
wife the Perfimsy when they fought againft 
I-Iellcfpont, where a vaft Army of the Perfians were 
eafily overcome by Alexander the Great, as the 
Reader may fee more at large in Cm-tssts. 
As Bears are obferved to have very week 
' heads, feveralofthemat /- :<i been killed 
with afmall blow on the ear? 1 e P 'rp:,‘S jf! 
ing thcmfelves wholly up to h.-.b, qn-j pieafule- 
