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lord_n	daughter_n	son_n	wife_n	16,146	5	6.4775	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40406	The history of brutes, or, A description of living creatures wherein the nature and properties of four-footed beasts are at large described / by Wolfgangus Franzius ... ; and now rendred into English by N.W.; Historia animalium sacra. English	Franz, Wolfgang, 1564-1628.; N. W.	1670 (1670)	Wing F2094; ESTC R20699	139,929	266

corrected by his Master will hang down his tail thus all true Christians when in peril and trouble will cry out with Daniel ●o thee belongeth righteousness but to us confusion of face and with the penitent thief We are justly punished for our deserts and like the Emperour Mauritius who when he saw his Sons and his Daughters slain before his face did not murmur or repine in the least but his Wife turning to him said O Lord Thou art just and righteous in all thy Judgements Luther when he saw a Dog wagging his tail at dinner used to say that he begged by the very wagging of his tail and I wish saith he that we men were indued with the like nature not to leave off our prayers because not presently received this is a good similitude though but a homely one See more of this in Philippus Camerarius Lib. 2. Succis CHAP. XXII Of the Sheep I Take the word Sheep here for all kind of Sheep whether it be the Ram the Wether c. The Ram is the male the Wether is guelded although this be a domestick and common creature yet it is worthy our observation to consider that it hath pleased the Holy Ghost very often to compare Christ to Sheep as also all Christians the Jews in their sacrifices offered more Sheep than any other creature although they used to offer up Calves Goats Oxen Heifers Kids as also Turtles and Pidgeons but their daily sacrifices consisted chiefly of Sheep for every day for above 1582 years all the while that the Mosaical Law was observed there were offered two Lambs one in the morning and the other at evening with fine flour and wine which did signifie to us holy Prayers and Ejaculations with which we ought to begin and end every day That Ram which Abraham offered in the Mount instead of Isaac was a Type of Christ for as the Ram was slain for Isaac so Christ the Lamb of God was offered up instead of us every day as I said before were offered up two Lambs besides all other sacrifices which sometimes did require Lambs and Sheep as in the consecration of Priests as also on their Sabbaths and New Moons and at the Passover at Pentecost and several other Feastivals as also upon their Confessions Purifications c. of which we may read at large in Exodus Leviticus and several other places all which were but types and figures as they are called Heb. 9. Now we come to speak of the nature and properties of the Sheep 1. It is not a crafty subtil creature like to Foxes and Leopards but dull and stupid often wandring and running into deserts and by-places where he meeteth but with worse pasture in the Winter time they will run out of the pens into the snow where they are smothered neither do they ever come back again unless the shepherd fetch them it was wittily said by him of a wandring sheep Raro una errat ovis raroque revertitur una 2. The Sheep is neither so strong as a Horse so couragious as the Lion nor so confident as a Dog he regardeth not the traps and snares that are layed for him being gentle and easily taken the Sheep hath no gall and therefore is more patient than other creatures that we have named before never roaring nor crying out when sheared nay they are silent though about to be slain whereas on the contrary Swine and several other creatures are not only unwilling to be caught but when caught do make such a hideous noise as is scarcely to be endured 3. Nature hath denied this creature any thing whereby to defend her self some creatures have talons others horns but this nothing and although Rams have horns as Sheep have in some Countreys yet have they no courage to defend them for Sheep are very timorous and fearful and are very gentle when they have young ones contrary to the nature of all other beasts and thus is easily made a prey of either to man or beast 4. Of all creatures none are subject to so many diseases as Man the Horse and the Sheep as distempers in the head and is also very subject to the Scab and what we said before of their wandring abroad so the scabby Sheep is never single as the old Verse hath it Morbida facta pecus totum corrumpit ovile If they are driven far in a night or heated it maketh them lean when it thundereth they are so affrighted that they cast their young for fear 5. They seem to have a great love to their Shepherds for nature hath made them so cowardly and weak that they cannot live without some one to rule over them A Shepherd hath especially these four things to do for the Sheep 1. To lead them into good Pastures and wholsome clear Waters for a Sheep loveth green Meadows and is very delicate for if she cannot feed in such green Meadows she will eat nothing at all and counteth no labour lost if at last she getteth into a field that is green and then she looketh about for cold clear water loving nothing more not induring to drink of muddy waters 2. The Shepherd is to keep them together lest by their simplicity and foolishness they should stray from the flock and run into ditches and fens where they are destroyed without remedy 3. He is to defend them by his Dogs against Wolves or any one that shall disturb them when feeding when any of them is with young he taketh them up upon his knees and cherisheth them 4. He is to understand and know the signs and causes of their diseases all good Shepherds ought to be thus qualified When the Sheep hear the Shepherds voice they all get together into one place but especially when he singeth for they love musick exceedingly and it maketh them feed the better they are so delighted with it that some think they would not live long if the Shepherd did not sing the young Lambs as soon as brought forth know their Damms though there be thousands of Sheep in the field together yet they will know their Damm from them all by their bleating and though they be never so hungry and thirsty yet will they suck of no one but of their own Dam and the Damm amongst hundred of Lambs although of the same bigness colour and make the same noise yet they will know their own Lambs this they do while young but when once they come to be weaned they know the Shepherds voice so well that they will follow him and flye from any one else the Scripture reckoneth this amongst those creatures that cleave the Hoof and chew the Cud of which we have spoken very largely before He loveth to eat of green willow-leaves though they be very bitter salt getteth them a great stomach and therefore the Shepherd will oftentimes sprinkle salt in the water where they use to drink The Sheep is observed to be very cleanly and cannot endure like the swine to be in dirty places there is