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death_n	defend_v	dog_n	duck_n	80	3	16.6961	5	false

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A09765	A summarie of the antiquities, and wonders of the worlde, abstracted out of the sixtene first bookes of the excellente historiographer Plinie, vvherein may be seene the wonderful workes of God in his creatures, translated oute of French into Englishe by I.A.; Naturalis historia. English. Abridgments	Pliny, the Elder.; Alday, John, attributed name.; I. A.	1566 (1566)	STC 20031; ESTC S110480	40,229	130

their yong ones as sone as the femall findeth them lost she smelleth their way and rūneth after them when shée is spyed of those that haue hir yong ones they lette one of them fall the which she taketh vp and caryeth it to hir repayre in the meane tyme they escape with the rest and bring them to their shippes Camels they are dryuen to pasture toward the East as we doe shéepe Wilde Dogs haue handes féete almost lyke men In the north parte there are maruellous swift beastes which haue the vpper lippe so long that when they will feede they go backward The Woulfe before he be séene will easely draw frō a man his breath they couple not with the females but. xij dayes in the yeare There are wilde wolues which in eating of their pray if they turne once about forget their pray and goe againe to séeke another Among the Serpents the Bassalicke doth infecte and kill people with his looke There are innumerable kindes of others whereof some haue double heades at both endes for to cast venime For the byting of an Aspis there is no remedy but to cutte that that he hath touched The Cocodrils are ingendred in Nylle a Ryuer of Egipt which haue foure féete the skinne very harde and they haue no mouing but the vpper lippe and they make as many egges as Géese and they haue sharpe clawes for their defence in the day they remaine on the earth and the night in the waters whē they open their throte in sléeping there are little birdes called Trochilos that will picke clense their teeth in the which thei take great delight The Stork doth shew the maner how to take glisters for by hir nature shée filleth hir necke with water and behind with hir becke maketh infusion into hir belly for to clense hir And manye other beastes naturallye knowe the hearbes that for them are most proper The Swallow knoweth howe to finde an hearbe called Chelidonia which serueth for hir yōg ones when their eyes are endomaged Of little beastes we finde Cities destroyed and people driuen away In Spaine with Conies In Thessaly w t Moles In Fraunce with Frogs In Affricke with Locustes In the Ile of Ciclados with Rattes In Italy with Ser pents In Ethiopia with Scorpions Hyaena is sayd to be a beast of doubte nature Male and Female they will hearken at the Cottes of the sheepeheards and learne the proper name that a man is called by and calling him when the man is come forth they will strayght way kill him and they will call dogs They are founde in Affrica which is the cause of so many wylde Asses that they ingender the Males do correcte the yong ones by byting they wyll ●utte the trées along the Ryuers as wyth a knife they haue tayles like to fishes Déere that are oppressed with Dogges if they can finde no water for their refuge then they retyre to man the females beare eight wéekes and often tymes two and for to bring them forth they séeke secrece places not nere the hye wayes accustomed by men The Hinde teacheth hir yong ones to runne to feare and to leape the Males that haue left y e Females haue their mussell blacke when they knowe them selues heauye they séeke secret places they will stande still to heare the cry of the Dogs they runne with the winde to take away the smel of y e trase they reioyce to heare whistling and to heare a noyse of singing Moreouer the Harte is simple and all things are to him maruellous if that he see a man with a bowe or a crosse●owe he looketh more on them than on the man the Males haue hornes and in the spring time they cast their hornes that day that they léese theyr hornes they hyde them selues as all astonyed and sorowfull as they that haue lost their armours It is sayde that the right horne can not be found for that they hyde them in the ground At the burning of the hornes the serpents flye away their hornes growe till they be thrée score yeares olde and the sayde tyme passed there commeth vp others like and then they neuer fal after that there is no knoweledge of their age but their age is knowen by their téeth they being without hornes féede in the night and when their hornes beginne to come they wyll but te and runne against the trées they liue a hundreth yeares they neuer haue the Feuer or Ague and therfore some dames alwayes delight to break their fast with Uenson by y e v hich meanes they haue lyued a hūdreth yeres without hauing the Ague Camelion lyueth not but by the ayre and chaungeth his colour according to the thing he toucheth sauing whyte and redde they ingēder in Affrica and in India The Beares doe ioyne with the Females in the beginning of Winter not as other foure footed beastes doe for the Male the Female lye downe embracing and after that they doe retyre in sundry caues and the Female doth bring forth hir yong ones within thirtie dayes and moste commonlye bringeth fiue which haue the skinne white deformed without haire and eyes and there appeareth but their clawes in licking of them they are figured There is nothing so little séene of man as to sée the Beare bring forth hir yong shée hydeth hir foure monthes and the Male fortie dayes they couch or lye vpon soft leaues and the firste fouretene dayes they sléepe so soundlye that you shall scarce waken them with strokes then they fatten much and their fatte or grease is cōuenable to many medicines also to kepe haire from sheading They being wakened for the most part stand vp liue with the licking of their fore feete they warme their yong agaynste their breasts they haue little bloude about the heart and lesse in the bodye they haue little eyes and as feble or weake heades as the Lyon hath strōg therfore they defend their heades with their fore féete when they fall and leape from the Rocks or when they are bayted with dogges The Dogs among all other beastes that vnto vs are common are most faythfull We haue true histories of men that haue bene defended from théeues by their Dogges others haue fought to reuenge their maysters death and constrayned the murtherer to cōfesse the déede Two hundreth Dogs did rescue by force the king Garamantus being taken by the handes of his enimies Many people haue assembled dogges together for the warre We reade of Dogges that haue caste them selues into the fire when in times past their Maisters body haue bene burned We reade also of a Dog of Nicomedes the king of Bythinia to haue almost torne the Queene in pieces for that she played familiarly with the king the Dog thinking it had bene for harme A Senatour of Rome was defended by his Dogge on a night retourning to hys house from the handes of those that would haue put him to death At Rome a prisoners Dogge woulde neuer departe from the Prison

of thornes that are ranged one against another with earth and feathers and they are seldome sene There are Swallowes of dyuers kindes there are some called Marlions that make their neastes sixe foote in the grounde Birdes haue maruellous great industrie knoweledge in making their Neastes with feathers earth and chaffe haire wool mosse and suche like Also they carry water to temper it and to fortifie it by the which meanes their yong ones are sure and safe againste the rayne the dames do clense and make cleane the nestes from ordure when their little ones are yong and when they become great they force them to come forth of their nestes for to be cleane And in India some foules séeke Hares skinnes to make their nestes The Partridge so maketh hir nest that the wilde beastes can not finde them and where she layeth hir Egges shée hatcheth not hir yong fearing that hir oft frequentation should be knowen The Female for the intemperancie of luste of the Male seketh to deceyue him bycause if she be vpon the nest he will breake hir Egges The Males do fight for the Females At the cry or singing of the Female the Male runneth so blinded that he will somtimes strike against the foulers heade he is so much sub●ect to imbitilitie more than any other birde The Female when she heareth any approch hir yong ones she faineth to haue hir winges broken that shée can not flye and cryeth that she maye be hearde for to retyre the people and Dogs to the ende they finde not their nestes and shée flyeth a farre of from hir little ones and they liue by common estimation till sixtene yeares The Doues are chaste and leaue not their dwelling or remayning place if that they are not without makes they doe suspect adulterie by this meanes they quarrell with their throte and sight with their bill then they flatter with their fete The male is as careful toward the yong ones as the female at the first they bring their yong of the salte of the earth for to temper their ●ppetite and they conceyue by the bil The Pigeons and Turtles drinke as do horses without often pulling their bil out of the water when they drinke they liue aboute eight yeares but the wilde Doues liue thirtie yeares The Sparrowe liueth not aboue a yeare and the female liueth somwhat more bicause of the frequētation y t the● haue together Birdes flye in dyuers kinds some goe some leape some runne and some caste there féete forwarde before they flye as Cranes and Storkes and there are none but Drakes that flye bolt vpwarde at the first leape others aduance them before they flye Some haue no féete and haue no rest but in their nest Hennes haue vnderstanding when they haue layd an ●gge they cackle and make a noyse The Cardnelis doth those things that shée ●s commaunded The Popingay can speake humaine speach they come frō the Indias they haue their heade as harde as their bill they liue most commonly with Acornes and they speake best y t haue fiue clawes on their feete thei are taught secretly where as there is no other noyses but the teachers Crowes haue bene séene speake and call noble men by their names specially ●e at Rome which by that meanes was solemnely buried It is easier to ●ame a Lyon an Eliphant or any other great beast or foule than to tame a Mouse or a swallow Strabo was the first that did cage birdes which before had liberty in the Sky he taught the way to fattē Capo●s with meale and milke Among the birdes many haue foure féete and some lay many egges some foure and some two They ioyne together in two maners the Cranes with their height And Hennes and other Females the Cockes tread them doowne Some egges and the mo●e part are white others coloured and others redde as the Egges of Fesantes and all kinde of egges within are of two colours white and redde Egges of fishes are rounde and they haue no white the Egges of feathered soules liuing on the water are round of others long the yong ones come out of the shell at the round ende Horace sayth that the longest egges haue the best sauour and that Henne is best and most tenderest that layeth round egges Some birdes ingender at all tymes as Hennes that lay euery day an egge some two at a tyme some so many that therewith they dye In some places Doues ingender tenne times in a yeare In Egipt the Turtle twyce a yeare and other birdes but once a yeare As touching egges there is a red droppe in the middest of the yolke the whiche maketh the birdes harte and it is the first formed and of the whyte is formed the body within the egge the heade is greater than the body and liueth with the surplus of the yolke the twentye day he hath lyfe and cryeth within the Egge and then the feathers begin to come The yong one in the egge lyeth after this sort it hath the heade vnder the ryght foote and the right wing vpō the head and they growe on their féete contrary to the nature of other beastes Ye ought not to giue a Henne aboue xxv egges to coue on and those Chickens that are hatched about the beginning of the yeare are the best For to sette Hennes to broode take egges of tenne dayes olde for they are better than older or more fresher and ye ought to put odde when the Henne hath co●ed foure dayes in looking on them in the Sunne ye shall knowe whether they be good or no or in putting them in warme water for the good egges will sinke to the bottome and those that are pu●rified and naught will flotte and swimme If the egges are neuer so little craysed that are sette they wil neuer proue It is best to set Hennes to coue in the newe Moone for if they are sette in the wane of the Moo●e or at the ful they wil profite little Whē the weather is hote chickēs will come within one and twenty dayes and if it be cold not til fiue twenty dayes If it thunder the egges that are coued will be lost and also at the voyce of the Kyte or Puttocke The remedy against the thunder is to put a na●e in the Hennes nest or else of the earth of a Carte whéele It hath bene recited of a Cocke whiche atfer the Hennes death hath atchieued couing by thys meanes to ceasse from crowing The Ducke maruelleth at the first to see hir Ducklins but after most carefullys she calleth them together and lamenteth if shée sée them drowned in the water and some there are that can make Chickens come in warme water as well as if the Egge were coued The pip commeth lyghtly vnto pullaine betwene haruest the vintage for a remedy therfore it is good to let them hunger to giue them little meate or to giue them to eat Garlike and butter Doues they lay two egges and if they