which are fed of rotten Apples, bean cods, and 
fuch moilf meat, their flelh is moifter and pleafant-' 
er than other meat, but nof fo healthful for the bo- 
dy ; they have another way to know a by look- 
ing on their backs, fpr thdy fe^ whether the blood : 
be good or no that cometh out upon the plucking j 
fome, hairs off by the roots j the way to have the^n 
dear from thefe fwellings,is to let them run abroad, 
and keep them in clean llies; Batdierscommonly 
fay, that it is very fddom but that a ffog is troub- 
led with fome diilemper or other, either in his > 
Lungs, Lights, Liver, &c. but mbit ef^ecially. 
they are troubled with Lice, which breed molt up- 
on their backs ; but the head-ach is m epidemical 
difeafe among all Hogs,oi which many dye. 3.. It 
isfo greedy a Creature, that he hath no meafure 
.in eating, and groweth fo fat, that fometimes he : 
is not able to gojthey have lain fo long in one place, j 
that Mice have bred under them ; Otto Melander 
faith, thatin Arcadia he £aw a Hig fofat that he ' 
cohld not llir, and that a Rat had eat a hole in his ; 
flefh, and there bred young ones ; as MarcusV ctr- \ 
ya faith, quoting Johannes Rivius, in h's Book ^ 
concerning the injlltution of Children : this Crea- j 
ture liveth as if he were born for nothing' but to 1 
eat; and, as there he obferveth, the groffeft bodies ; 
breed the wbrft blood ; he hath nothing of fubtil- 
ty or craft in him, but is a dull, ftupid, fenflefs 
Creature, and can never be brought to any fervice, 
as are other Creatures, though wild* wV. Lyons ^ 
Bears ■i &c. and therefore Cicero faith, that the 
life of a SoT 9 is for nothing but to keep it. from 
putrifying/ 
