a £)efctipti0n of Iiotug Cccaturosf* 2ip 
and, 2. Very ravenous. He will climb up trees, and 
leap upon any man thatgoeth by, and is very cru- 
el, feeding moll upon dead carkalTes; and where he 
feeth one, he will eat fo long of it, that his belly 
will be alraoft ready to burft ; as foon as he hath 
done, he will look for two trees that ftand clofe to- 
gether, and will fqueeze himfelf between thefc 
trees; and fo what he had forced in, he forceth out* 
having donefo, he raaketh hafte again to the dead 
carkafs, then to the two trees again, and doth as 
before : this he doth untill he hath devoured the 
carkafs : by which filthy creature , God would 
have us to hate that fin of Intemperance,* for we 
fee that moft of our domeftick creatures obferve 
a rule in eating and drinking, and will not exceed 
the rules of temperance; nay, we cannot make 
them, neither by fair means nor foul, to take more 
than will fatisfie nature : but it is to be much la- 
mented, that man, who was born in the image of 
God, fhould fo violate the laws of nature, as to ex- 
ceed the bounds of fobriety, that which the very 
beafts are free from : and by this creature we 
ihould learn to deteft the beaftly fin of Intempe- 
rance. This creature, though fuch a gorging crea- 
ture, is fatisfied when he hath eaten one carkafs • 
but men, when in their cups, know not when they 
have enough, turning day into night, and night in- 
to day ; and when nature will bear no more, but 
forceth them to bring it up again ; they will after 
their vomit, return again to their cups : fome have 
merrily put the queftion, whether there may not 
Antifodfs in the fame City, and have concluded 
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