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dangerous : when as we ought earneftly to implore 
Heaven that we may not be punifiied with fuch de- 
formed children ; for the fight of fuch things 
do very ftrangely work upon the fa»cf of wome>t 
with child:hence it is, that oftentimes when women 
look upon hares j they bring forth their children 
Withhare-lips fo, fome have brought forth their 
young ones with horns, feeing the picture of A^<e- 
CHf who was turned into a Hart : and therefore we 
have horfes of divers colours , when the Mare 
ftandeth in a Stal^le where flie feeth hangings of 
feveral colours. We read of a Bitch that lying con- 
tinually in the foft wool of a Ram, brought forth 
her pttppies with a main. Thus Damafcene relateth 
of a woman, who, continually almoff, looking upon 
the pifture of John the BaptiH, brought forth her 
child hairy all over its body. ^IntUlan cleared a 
woman who was accufed for lying with her fervant, 
becaufe the infant was hlack^, when he fomid the 
image of an cABthloplan in her chamber. There are 
five things go to the making up of a mixt creature, 
( man, not being content with the ordinary courfe 
ofNature, firft invented thofe promifcuous coup- 
lings of one creature with another. ) 
I. Thofe creatures that thus copulate muft not 
be much bigger one than another • therefore it is 
that tbtdog and the horfe cannot copulate, but the 
Wolf and the Dog ; the Affe and the Horfe, the Li- 
on and the Panther : and hence it is that man, by 
a horrible alh again Ji nature, hath copulated with 
Mares, Swine, 8cc, 
2* Thofe creatures cannot copulate together 3 
when 
