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A42668	The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ...; Historie of foure-footed beasts	Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?; Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625? Historie of serpents.; Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565. Historia animalium Liber 1. English.; Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565. Historia animalium Liber 5. English.; Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604. Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum. English.; Rowland, John, M.D.	1658 (1658)	Wing G624; ESTC R6249	1,956,367	1,026

thin as water rumbling in the belly by reason of crudity redness of the whole body distention of nerves heaviness of minde love of darkness and such like Yet doth not this operation appear presently upon the hurt but sometimes at nine days sometimes at forty days sometimes at half a year or a year or seven or twelve year as hath been already said For the cure of these Dogs and first of all for the preventing of madness there are sundry invented observations First it is good to shut them up and make them to fast for one day then purge them with Hellebor and being purged nourish them with bread of Barley-meal Other take them when they be young whelps and take out of their tongue a certain little worm which the Graecians call Lytta after which time they never grow mad or fall to vomiting as Gracius noted in these verses Namque subit nodis qua lingua tenacibus haeret Vermiculum dixere mala atque incondita pestis c. Iam teneris elementa mali causasque recidunt But immediately it being taken forth they rub the tongue with Salt and Oyl Columella teacheth that Shepheards of his time took their Dogs tails and pulled out a certain nerve or sinew which cometh from the Articles of the Back-bone into their tails whereby they not only kept the tail from growing deformed and over-long but also constantly believed that their Dogs could never afterward fall mad whereunto Pliny agreeth calling it a castration or gelding of the tail adding that it must be done before the Dog be forty days old Some again say that if a Dog taste of a Womans milk which she giveth by the birth of a Boy he will never fall mad Nemesian ascribeth the cure hereof to Castoreum dryed and put into milk but this is to be understood of them that are already mad whose elegant verses of the cause beginning and cure of a mad Dog I have thought good here to express Exhalat seu terra sinus seu noxius aer Causa mali seu cum gelidus non sufficit humor Torrida per venas concrescunt semina flammae Whatsoever it be he thus warranteth the cure Tunc virosa tibi sumes multumque domabis Castorea adtritu silicis lentescere coges Ex ebore huc trito pulvis lectove feratur Admiscensque diu facies concrescere utrumque Mox lactis liquidos sensim superadde fluores Vt non cunctantes hanstus infundere eorm Inserto possis furiasque repellere tristes Armetia a King of Valen●ia prescribeth this form for the cure of this evill let the Dog be put into the water so as the hinder-legs do only touch the ground and his fore-legs be tyed up like hands over his head and then being taken again out of the water let his hair be shaved off that he may be pieled untill he bleed then anoint him with Oyl of Beets and if this do not cure him within seven days then let him be knocked on the head or hanged out of the way When a young male Dog suffereth madness shut him up with a Bitch or if a young Bitch be also oppressed shut her up with a Dog and the one of them will cure the madness of the other But the better part of this labor is more needful to be employed about the curing of men or other creatures which are bitten by Dogs then in curing or preventing that natural infirmity Wherefore it is to be remembred that all other poysoned wounds are cured by incision and circumcising of the flesh and by drawing plaisters which extract the venom out of the flesh and comfort nature and by Cupping-glasses or burning Irons as Coelius affirmeth upon occasion of the miraculous fiction of the Temple door Key of S. Bellious neer Rhodigium for it was believed that if a mad man could hold that Key in his hand red hot he should be delivered from his fits for ever There was such another charm or incantation among the Apuleians made in form of a prayer against all bitings of mad Dogs and other poysons unto an obscure Saint called Vithus which was to be said three Saterdays in the evening nine times together which I have here set down for no other cause but to shew their extream folly Aime Vithe pellicane Oram qui tenes Appulam Littusque Polygnanicum Qui morsus rabidos levas Irasque canum mitigas Tu sancte rabiem asperam Rictusque canis luridos Tu saevom prohibe luem I procul hinc rabies procul hinc furor omnis abeste But to come to the cure of such as have been bitten by mad Dogs First I will set down some compound medicines to be outwardly applyed to the body Secondly some simple or uncompounded medicines In the third place such compounded and uncompounded potions as are co be taken inwardly against this poyson For the outward compound remedies a plaister made of Opponax and Pitch is much commended which Menippus used taking a pound of Pitch of Brutias and four ounces of Opponax as Aetius and Actuarius do prescribe adding withall that the Opponax must be dissolved in Vinegar and afterward the Pitch and that Vinegar must be boyled together and when the Vinegar is consumed then put in the Opponax and of both together make like taynters or splints and thrust them into the wound so let them remain many days together and in the mean time drink an Antidore of Sea-crabs and Vinegar for Vinegar is alway pretious in this confection Other use Basilica Onyons Rue Salt rust of Iron White bread seeds of Horehound and Triacle but the other plaister is most forcible to be applyed outwardly above all medicines in the world For the simple and uncompounded medicines to be taken against this sore are many As Goose-grease Garlike the root of wilde Roses drunk bitter Almonds leaves of Chickweed or Pimpernel the old skin of a Snake pounded with a male-Sea-crab Betony Cabbage leaves or stalks with Parsneps and Vinegar Lime and Sewet powder of Sea-crabs with Hony powder of the shels of Sea-crabs the hairs of a Dog laid upon the wound the head of the Dog which did bite mixed with a little Euphorbium the hair of a Man with Vinegar dung of Goats with Wine Walnuts with Hony and Salt powder of Fig-tree in a Sear-cloth Fitches in Wine Euphorbium warm Horse-dung raw Beans chewed in the mouth Fig-tree-leaves green Figs with Vinegar fennel stalks Gentiana dung of Pullen the liver of a Buck-Goat young Swallows burned to powder also their dung the urine of a Man an Hyaena● skin Flower-deluce with Honey a Sea-hearb called Kakille Silphum with Salt the flesh and shels of Snayls Leek-seeds with Salt Mints the tail of a Field-mouse cut off from her alive and she suffered to live roots of Burs with Salt of the Sea-Plantain the tongue of a Ram with Salt the flesh of all Sea-fishes the fat of a Sea-calf and Vervine beside many other superstitious

at this day call a Mouse The French call it Taulpe the Germa 〈…〉 Mu 〈…〉 f and in Saxon Molwurffe from whence is derived the English Mole and Molewarp The H 〈…〉 tians Schaer and Schaermouse and the Molehil they call Schaerusen of digging The Holland 〈…〉 and the Flemmings call it Mol and Molmuss in imitation of the German word the Illyrians 〈◊〉 And generally the name is taken from digging and turning up the earth with her nose and back acco●to the saying of Virgil Aut oculis cap●● fodere cubilia Talp 〈…〉 Some are of opinion that it is called Toilpa because it is appointed to an everlasting darkness in the earth of which sort Isidorus writeth thus Talpa dicta est to quod per 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ris dammata est enim absqu 〈…〉 is It is called also in Greek Indouros and Siphneus of Siphnon the earth because in liveth the earth and turneth it upward to make it hollow for passage The like I might say of his other names Ixliocha and Orthoponticos But this shall suffice for his name In Butotia about the Champaig 〈…〉 called Orchomani 〈…〉 there are the greatest store of Moles in the world for by digging they undermine all the fields and yet in L●●badia another Countrey of Boeotia there are none at all and if they be brought thither from any other place they will never dig but die Rodolphus Oppianus and Albertus affirm that they are created of themselves of wet earth and rain water for when the earth beginneth to putrifie the Mole beginneth to take life They are all for the most part of a black duskie colour with rough short and smooth soft hair as wooll and those hairs which were whitest when they are yong are most glistering and perfect black when they are old and Gesner affirmeth that he saw in the end of October a Mole taken which was very white mixed with a little red and the red was most of all upon her belly betwixt her forelegs and the neck and that it could not be a young one because it was two palms in length betwixt his head and tail These Beasts are all blinde and want eyes and therefore came the proverb Talpa caecior Tuphloteros aspalacos blinder then a Mole to signifie a man without all judgement wit or foresight for it is most elegantly applyed to the minde Yet if any man look earnestly upon the places where they should grow he shall perceive a little passage by drawing up the membrane or little skin which is black and therefore Aristotle saith of them in this manner probably All kindes of Moles want their sight because they have not their eyes open and naked as other Beasts but if a man pull up the skin of their browes about the place of their eyes which is thick and shadoweth their sight he shall perceive in them inward covered eyes for they have the black circle and the apple which is contained therein and another part of the white circle or skin but not apparently eminent neither indeed can they because nature at the time of generation is hindered for from the brains there belong to the eyes two strong nervie passages which are ended at the upper teeth and therefore their nature being hindered it leaveth an imperfect work of sight behinde her Yet there is in this Beast a plain and bald place of the skin where the eyes should stand having outwardly a little black spot like a Millet or Poppey-seed fastened to a nerve inwardly by pressing it there followeth a black humor or moistness and by dissection of a Mole great with young it is apparent as hath been proved that the young ones before birth have eyes but after birth living continually in the dark earth without light they cease to grow to any perfection for indeed they need them not because being out of the earth they cannot live above an hour or two Esop hath a pretty fable of the Asse Ape and Mole each once complaining of others natural wants the Asse that he had no horns and was therefore unarmed the Ape that he had no tail like other Beasts of his stature and quantity and therefore was unhandsome to both which the Mole maketh answer that they may well be silent for that she wanteth eyes and so insinuateth that they which complain shall finde by consideration and comparison of their own wants to others that they are happy and want nothing that were profitable for them Oppianus saith that there was one Phineus which was first deprived of his eye-sight and afterward turned into a Mole It should seem he was condemned first to loose his eyes and afterward his life These Moles have no ears and yet they hear in the earth more nimbly and perfectly then men can above the same for at every step or small noise and almost breathing they are terrified and run away and therfore Pliny saith that they understand all speeches spoken of themselves and they hear much better under the earth then being above and out of the earth And for this cause they dig about their lodging long passages which bringeth noises and voices to them being spoken never so low and softly like as the voice of a man carryed in a trunk reed or hollow thing Their snout is not like a Weasils as Suidas saith but rather like a Shrew-mouses or if it be lawful to compare small with great like to a Hogs Their teeth are like a Shrews and a Dogs like a Shrews in the neather teeth and furthermost inner teeth which are sharp pointed and low inwardly and like a Dogs because they are longer at the sides although only upon the upper jaw and therefore they are worthily called by the Grecians Marootatous that is dangerous biting teeth for as in Swine the under teeth stand out above the upper and in Elephants and Moles the upper hang over the neather for which cause they are called Hyperphereis The tongue is no greater then the space or hollow in the neather chap and they have in a manner as little voice as sight and yet I marvel how the proverb came of Loquax Talpa a pratling Mole in a popular reproach against wordy and talkative persons which Ammianus saith was first of all applyed to one Julianus Capella after he had so behaved himself that he had lost the good opinion of all men The neck seemeth to be nothing it is so short standing equall with the forelegs The lights are nothing else but distinguished and separated Fibres and hang not together upon any common root or beginning and they are placed or seated with the heart which they enclose much lower toward the belly then in any other Beast Their gall is yellowish their feet like a Bears and short legs wherefore they move and run but slowly their fingers or toes wherewithal they dig the earth are armed with sharp nails and when she feeleth any harm upon her back presently she turneth upward and defendeth her self

with her snowt and feet with her feet she diggeth and with her nose casteth away the earth and therefore such earth is called in Germany M●l●werff and in England Mole-hill and she loveth the fields especially meddowes and Gardens where the ground is soft for it is admirable with what celerity she casteth up the earth They have five toes with claws upon each forefoot and four upon each foot behind according to Albertus but by diligent inspection you shall finde five behind also for there is one very little and recurved backward which a man slightly and negligently looking upon would take to be nothing The palm of the fore feet is broad like a mans hand and hath a hollow in it if it be put together like a fist and the toes or fingers with the nails are greater then any other beasts of that quantity And to the end that he might be well armed to dig the forepart of her fore-legs consist of two solid and sound bones which are fastened to her shoulders and her claws spread abroad not bending downward and this is peculiar to this Beast not competible to any other but in her hinder legs both before and behind they are like a Mouses except in the part beneath the knee which consisteth but of one bone which is also forked and twisted The tail is short and hairy And thus much for the Anatomy and several parts They live as we have said in the earth and therefore Cardan saith that there is no creature which hath blood and breath that liveth so long together under the earth and that the earth doth not hinder their expiration and inspiration for which cause they keep it hollow above them that at no time they may want breath although they do not heave in two or three dayes but I rather believe when they heave they do it more for meat then for breath for by digging and removing the earth they take Wormes and hunt after victuals When the Wormes are followed by Moles for by digging and heaving they foreknow their own perdition they flie to the superficies and very top of the earth the silly beast knowing that the Mole their adversary dare not follow them into the light so that their wit in flying their enemy is greater then in turning again when they are troad upon They love also to eat Toads and Frogs for Albertus saith he saw a great Toad whose leg a Mole held fast in the earth and that the Toad made an exceeding great noise crying out for her life during the time that the Mole did bite her And therefore Toads and Frogs do eat dead Moles They eat also the root of Herbs and Plants for which cause they are called by Oppianus Poiophagi Herbivora herb-eaters In the month of July they come abroad out of the earth I think to seek meat at that time when wormes be scanty They are hunted by Weasils and wilde Cats for they will follow them into their holes and take them but the Cats do not eat them whereas we have said already that they have an understanding of mens speech when they hear them talk of them I may add thereunto a story of their understanding thus related by Gillius in his own experience and knowledge When I had saith he put down into the earth an earthen pot made of purpose with a narrow mouth to take Moles it fortuned that within short space as a blind Mole came along she sell into it and could not get forth again but lay therein whining one of her fellowes which followed her seeing his mate taken heaved up the earth above the pot and with her nose cast in so much till she had raised up her companion to the brim and was ready to come forth by which in that blind creature confined to darkness doth not only appear a wonderful work of Almighty God that endoweth them with skill to defend and wisely to provide for their own safety but also planted in them such a natural and mutual love one to another which is so much the more admirable considering their beginning or creation as we have shewed already Because by their continual hearing and laboring for meat they do much harm to Gardens and other places of their aboad and therefore in the husband-mans and house-wifes common-wealth it is an acceptable labor to take and destroy them For which cause it is good to observe their passages and mark the times of their coming to labor which being perceived they are easily turned out of the earth with a spade and this was the first and most common way Some have placed a board full of pikes which they fasten upon a small stick in the mole hil or passage and when the mole cometh to heave up the earth by touching the stick she bringeth down the pikes and sharp nailed boards upon her own body and back Other take a Wyar of Iron and make it to have a very sharp point which being fastened to a staffe and put into the earth where the Moles passage is they bend and so set up that when the Mole cometh along the pike runneth into her and killeth her The Grecians saith Palladius did destroy and drive away their Moles by this invention they took a great Nut or any other kind of fruit of that quantity receipt and solidity wherein they included Chaffe Brimstone and Wax then did they stop all the breathing places of the Mole except one at the mouth wherein they set this devise on fire so as the smoak was driven inward wherewithal they filled the hole and the place of their walks and so stopping it the moles were either killed or driven away Also Paramus sheweth another means to drive away and take Moles If you take white Hellebor and the rindes of wilde Mercury in stead of Hemlock and dry them and beat them to powder afterward sift them and mix them with meal and with milk-beaten with the white of an Egge and so make it into little morsels or bals and lay them in the Mole-hole and passages it will kill them if they eat thereof as they will certainly do Many use to kill both Moles and Emmets with the froath of new Oyl And to conclude by setting an earthen pot in the earth and Brimstone burning therein it will certainly drive them for ever from that place Unto which I may add a superstitious conceit of an obscure Author who writeth that if you whet a mowing sythe in a field or meddow upon the feast day of Christs Nativity commonly called Christmas day all the Moles that are within the hearing thereof will certainly for ever forsake that field meddow or Garden With the skins of Moles are purses made for the rough and soft hair and also black russes colour is very delectable Pliny hath a strange saying which is this Ex pellibus talparum cubioularis vidimus stragula adeo ne religio quidem a portentis summov●● delicias that is

they have another property if they do not breed and engender before the casting of their Colts-teeth they remain steril and barren all their life long for so doth the generative power of the Asses body rest upon a tickle and nice point apt to rise or easie to fall away to nothing And in like sort is a Horse prone to barrenness for it wanteth nothing but cold substance to be mingled with his seed which cometh then to pass when the seed of the Ass is mixed with it for there wanteth but very little but that the Asses seed waxeth barren in his own kinde and therefore much more when it meeteth with that which is beside his nature and kinde This also hapneth to Mules that their bodies grow exceeding great especially because they have no menstruous purgation and therefore where there is an annual breeding or procreation by the help and refreshing of these flowers they both conceive and nourish now these being wanting unto Mules they are the more unfit to procreation The excrements of their body in this kinde they purge with their urine which appeareth because the male Mules never smell to the secrets of the female but to their urine and the residue which is not voided in the urine turneth to encrease the quantity and greatness of the body whereby it cometh to pass that if the female Mule do conceive with foal yet is she not able to bring it forth to perfection because those things are dispersed to the nourishment of her own body which should be imployed about the nourishment of the foal and for this cause when the Egyptians describe a barren woman they picture a Mule Alexander Aphrodiseus writeth thus also of the sterility of Mules Mules saith he seem to be barren because they consist of Beasts divers in kinde for the commixtion of seeds which differ both in habit and nature do evermore work something contrary to nature for the abolishing of generation for as the mingling together of black and white colours doth destroy both the black and white and produce a swart and brown and neither of both appear in the brown so is it in the generation of the Mules whereby the habitual and generative power of nature is utterly destroyed in the created compound which before was eminent in both kindes simple and several These things saith he Alcmaeon as he is related by Plutarch saith that the male Mules are barren by reason of the thinness and coldness of their seed and the females because their wombs are shut up and the veins that should carry in the seed and expel out the menstruous purgation are utterly stopt And Empedocles and Diocles say that the womb is low narrow and the passages crooked that lead into it and that therefore they cannot receive seed or conceive with young whereunto I do also willingly yeeld because it hath been often found that women have been barren for the same cause To conclude therefore Mules bear very seldom and that in some particular Nations if it be natural or else their Colts are prodigious and accounted monsters Concerning their natural birth in hot regions where the exterior heat doth temper the coldness of the Asses seed there they may bring forth And therefore Collumella and Varro say that in many parts of Africk the Colts of Mules are as familiar and common as the Colts of Mares are in any part of Europe So then by this reason it is probable unto me that Mules may ingender in all hot Countries as there was a Mule did engender often at Rome or else there is some other cause why they do engender in Africk and it may be that the African Mules are like to the Syrian Mules before spoken of that is they are a special kinde by themselves and are called Mules for resemblance and not for nature It hath been seen that a Mule hath brought forth twins but it was held a prodigy Herodotus in his fourth Book recorded these two stories of a Mules procreation When Darius saith he besieged Babylon the Babylonians scorned his Army and getting up to the top of their Towers did pipe and dance in the presence of the Persians and also utter very violent opprobrious speeches against Darius and the whole Army amongst whom one of the Babylonians said thus Quid istic desidetis ô Pers● quin potius absceditis tunc expugnaturi nos cum pepererint Mulae O ye Persians why do you sit here wisdom would teach you to depart away for when Mules bring forth young ones then may you overcome the Babylonians Thus spake the Babylonian believing that the Persians should never overcome them because of the common proverb epcan emionoi tek●sin when a M●le beareth young ones But the poor man spake truer then he was aware of for this followed after a yeer and seven months While the siege yet lasted it hapned that certain Mules belonging to Z●pirus the son of Megabizus brought forth young ones whereat their Master was much moved while he remembred the aforesaid song of the Babylonian and that therefore he might be made the Author of that fact communicated the matter with Darius who presently entertained the device therefore Zopirus cut off his own nose and ears and so ran away to the Babylonians telling them that Darius had thus used him because he perswaded him to depart with his whole Army from Babylon which he said was in expugnable and invincible The Babylonians seeing his wounds and trusting to their own strength did easily give credence unto him for such is the nature of men that the best way to beguile them is to tell them of those things they most desire for so are their hopes perswaded before they receive any assurances But to proceed Zopirus insinuated himself further into the favour of the Babylonians and did many valiant acts against the Persians whereby he got so much credit that at last he was made the General of the whole Army and so betrayed the City unto the hands of Dirius Thus was Babylon taken when Mules brought forth Another Mule brought forth a young one at what time Xerxes passed over Hellespont to go against Graecia with his innumerable Troops of Souldiers and the said Mule so brought forth had the genitals both of the male and female Unto this I may adde another story out of Suetonius in the life of Galba Caesar As his father was procuring Augurisms or divinations an Eagle came and took the bowels out of his hands and carryed them into a fruit-bearing-oak he enquiring what the meaning of that should be received answer that his posterity should be Emperours but it would be very long first whereunto he merrily replyed Sane cum Mula pepererit I sir when a Mule brings forth young ones which thing afterwards happened unto Galba for by the birth of a Mule he was confirmed in his enterprises when he attempted the Empire so that that thing which was a prodigy and cause of sorrow and