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and he tdgctiifer With his fouidieis were driven into 
a River , and were drowned ; and Maximinm 
was eaten up of Worms. 
The Story of is known to all almoft, who 
walking alone byhinifelfin a foHeary place, was 
on a fudden wounded with a Weapon which he 
had about him ; he taking fomeof the bJoud in his 
hand, and holding it up toward Heaven, fayd, Then 
haft ovtrcome me%Q thou GalUeafi^fto that it was truly 
faid of the Poet. 
. Ad genertm Cafarls fine edie & /anguine Pdaii 
Defeendunt Reges fieca tnone Tjranuu 
3. There is a wonderful Antipathy betwixt an 
Tclepbant AT\i a Ram , which when he feetk heis 
much terrified, and Re is eren mad, yet at the 
fight of a Goat he groweth tame. So the Ro- 
mans ufed to make the Elephants of the King of 
Epirus to run away by bringing Rams to themj 
this may teach us allegorically, that learning like 
the Goat doth tame the fiercenefs of barbarous 
people; whence it was well faid, that he who 
hath welt learned the Arts, it doth better his man- 
iners. Thus the wind did obey Chrift’s command, 
as we may read in the Evangelical Ifory; fo the 
Jftos, when our Saviour faid thefe words, / am he, 
fell bkek ; fo thfe Heathens left ail their Oracles, 
Idols, and Divinations, when once the Gofpel of 
Chrift was mad* to them. Thus Tinners 
: when once they received the imprefllons of the 
IHoly ‘Spirit tbev grew more milde and ciyif. 
il 4* The Elephant is faid extremely to hafe a 
Mofi/e-i infoiriuch that if the Mou/e touch any 
