26 eTB^teiSs or; 
lows, they ate very much afhamed of it » and 
cannot endure their prefence, nay, not fo much 
as to hear them j hence we may learn honeft ae- 
mulation: for it is commonly laid, that he who 
yields to any one, will be no body. 
8 . They cannot fwim, yet they delight to be 
in Ships , whence Erafmtts borroweth this limili- 
tude ; as the Elephams who by reafon of the great- 
nefs of their bodies cannot fwim, yet they love 
to be in Ships, fo many who are unlearned , yet 
love to be in the company of thofe that are learn- 
ed. Whencewemay learn not to calf away or de- 
fpife the Arts, becaufe we are ignorant of them 
oar felves ; but we Ihould love and adpire them 
in others , left the old faying be verified in us, 
vii. That learning hath n» enemy hut the ignorant 
man, 
9, They are faid to want Gall, or at leaft they 
have very little, as appears from Maceah. 6 . 34. 1 
to provoke them to fight they Ihewed them the 
juice of grapes , and Mulberryes ,, which in the be- | 
^nning of a fight doth very much enrage and pro- i 
voke them, in fomuch that ( as Ofanius relates ) i 
they did not only carry wooden Towers on their 
backs, full of men, but they alfo took fwords in 
their Teeth, with which they did good execution. 
But this rage (as the fame Ofenlas relates) doth not i 
Jaft long , for they being impatient of any pain , 
if the Enemy do but wound her on the fidc,lhe will ( 
be fo enraged, that Ihe will rulh through the Ar- 
my , and by that means will fo diforder it , that it I 
cannot be put in order again ; Neither can any man ; 
make her tame again. The 
