254 ®SC Of 'BjUteSi or; 
janger : not long after, a Bear ’mu brought upon 
the Stage j the Dog looked upon him, but would 
not ftir : laft of all was brought a jL/W; the Dog^ as 
foonashefawhim, flyethathim, and bit him fo 
hard, that he made his teeth meet, and there held 
him •• -Alexander commanded that one of his legs 
fhould be cut off; the Dog endured it with fo much 
courage as if it had not been his own leg that had 
been cut off ;• another of his legs was cut off, and 
fo a third ; and then they cut off the other alfo , 
the Dog yet keeping his hold ; but afterwards they 
cut off his head^i yet his t^eth were as hard fet to- 
gether as when he was alive.- we may judge of 
other creatures by what hath been faid of this* 
And as, although all right lines are equal, yet 
croaked lines diflfer one from another, and there are 
many forts of them ; fo that it is impolfible to fet 
down the feyeral kinds of them; Thus, I think, it 
is a very difficult thing to fet down the feveral forts 
of mix’d Creatures ; and therefore I have fpoken 
only of the Camdofardalis, the Leopard^ and the 
Mule ; of which laft I am now to fpeak. It is a 
noted which Plutarch and t/£lian relate of 
a Mule that was loaden with falty if he went 
through any water that was fo deep that the fait 
was wet, he found it grew lighter and lighter eve- 
ry day than other the next time he went through 
any water, he plunged himfelf in over head and 
ears Thales the next day commanded that he 
fhould be loaden with fpunges, which he perceiving 
to grow heavier by being dipped in the water. 
Would never lye down in the water any more when 
he 
