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will admit any one into their Society ; but if once 
they grow to be rich, they fcorn and defpife all 
poor people. 
4. They are very much delighted with any Mu- 
fical Inftrument ; for they are oWerved fometimes 
even to weep for joy at it, but inoft of all he is 
pleafed at the found of a Trumpet* he terrifieth 
the Enemy, but bimfelf is not at all afraid} he run- 
neth into the battel, rageth and foameth, but the 
more when he feeth his Trappings. Pliny fpeak- 
ingof Horfesy mentioneth a fort of people in /r^- 
lyy that taught their Horfes to dance at the found 
of a Trumpet , which they ufed to do at great 
feafts ; and therefore when the Enemy waged war 
with them, they had the beft Trumpets they could 
get, by which the Enemies Herfes were fo tranf- 
ported, that they would leap and dance, and run 
with their Mailers on their backs into their Enemies 
Camp. 
5. They are the moll leacherous Creatures in 
the World , man onely excepted; they are mad 
when in the Aft, and will bite any Uorfe that com- 
eth nigh them, but the Mares are more leache- 
rous than the H»rfes; it is fabulous that is reported 
of the Mares in Portugal^ who are reported, by 
drawing in the wind, to have a kind of falfe con- 
ception, (as Hens oftentimes lay windy Eggs) 
but what they bring forth never liveth long ; thofe 
that would fatisfie themfelves further in this point, 
may read more in the third Book of 
to that fabulous report I have read of the Tjgerf 
conceiving with the wind j but fo great is the 
leachery 
