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66THE N ATURALL HISTORY
together with the provided prey: Then the
Tocotochtli comes down for his flhareand not
afore knowing that fliould he eat firft, all the
gueft beafts ffiould be poyfoned. So civill,cha-
ritable, and providently kind is he tothe reft.
None,but can profit others,if he will.We Pcand
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of a good heart to do good. Moft rich are
unprofitable it were well, if they were not
michievous; but all that are benevolent can in
fome degree be beneficient. Love is ever
liberall.
         CHAPTER             III.
     Of the Lynx, or Lyzvard.
wild Beait hath his name Lynx,
m Lykes, light; he being the miioft
k. fighted of all creatures; Called
a Deer-wolfe, not from his fliape,
        but his greedineili, and preying on deere. it is
        not the Thois, as we fhall fee hereafter. I que-
        Ition whether it be the Chaus or no, that the
,il.    French call the Raphlius. Pompey flhewed one
        in his plays, faced like a Wolte,and fpotted like
1) Lript the Pard. He is fillallheaded, his eyes glifter,
Sc ~lgcr. his face cheerfull, hath teats on the breaft. T he
fJ liicr  fpots are more diftind, and round on the Hee.
        The skin from the nofe-tip to the tayl is three
        foot, four inches long; the tayl feven inches
        long; the neck-skin, half a foot, the back-skin
        fifteen inrclhes about , the thighs afore four-
        teen, and the hinder twelve inches. The Hair
        foft, and dowiny, the back hair tips bright, the
        belly middle wvhitebut varied with black fpots,
        moLt, near the belly on thl fides ; the ears little,
        and triangu lar, and round black and (haggy,
        a few white hairs intermixt; the beard luke the
        Cats, with whlite brifiles, the fect very flihggv;
        the fiorefct having five, the hinder four toes;
        the tayl blackilll at the end of the fame thick-
        neflf everywhere; the temples hath weak
      '  mufckcs; tle skull three futures, or feams,arm-
. li.,  ~ ed with twenty teeth, wh.ereo twelve are fore-
        teeth, but the firfc, and fixt both of the upper,
        and lowerjaw,are leffer then the midddlemoft,
        as we obferve in Weazlcs, four dog-teeth
        longer then the reft, ten grinders , four in the
        upper-jaw on each fide; the fir-t next the dog-
        teeth of a trigon figure, the lat partedand
        broad,; fix in tle under-jaw, the fecond flap-
        ed like a lily; the third broader and greater,
        cloven in the midfc, flarp pointed. The lower
G.,,   jaw is little, becaufe hanging, and not fo em-
         ployed in chewing.  The foot armed with
         l1arp, clear claws covered with a thin skin, like
         thofe of the Eagle,and Vulter; the under part
         bard skinned.
Ph~c,,_~  They are found in the Eaftern parts, thence
Ovid.   brought into Europa; Alfo in the mountains
         of America. Thofe in Lithuania are black,
         and marked on the back with handfome fpots.
         They are alfo in Poland, IMufcovy, Swethland
         by Helfing; they call thei ,attlucbs. Alfo
         in Wittemberg, where one tct on a countrey-
manl, who knocked him down with his bill. G(fne;H.
They feed on flefl, especially of wild Cats, (t)ti
whofe fleil is fweeter.  They love alfo beafts F'JWM
brains, and lurk on trees, and catch at beafts
as they pafle by, fafntiing their clawes on their
necks, and hold them till they tear them, and
eat theirbrains. Some fay they wound not,
but only fuck the blood out. In Scandinia are Gcfiwr.
few bea ts that they prey not on. They en- Enggeid-
gender as dogs and bitches, and as Hares ad- ni .
mit of fuperfaotation. They bring at birth Scal
two, three or four. No beaft is fo fliarp-fight-
ed; whence it is fabled that they can fee Arift.
through a folid body. They are fo fwift of fll Orig.
foot,they run headlong. Pliny faith their piffe Phii.
congeals into gems like carbuncles , fparkling ht.
like fire,called Lyncuriam,like a kind of amber.
They themfelves know it, and as out of envy,
bury their urine, which hardens it the fooner.  ,
Some fay it, and fome deny it: Some grant it I i-tcaf.
to be an Amber, and that it wvill draw and take Dllcor.
up fethers; but count the other relations frivo-
lous. They are fo forgetfull, that ifthey fpy Brafavo.
another prey, they forget what is afore them; lus.
but that is rather their overgreedines. In fum- MAuflrs.
mer they caft their hair, but are Ihaggy in win-
ter ; whlich Odonus affirmes of all fhaggy LuLcalln.6.
beafts. Lucan faith that their bowells are as ve-
neuous as the foine of a mad Dog.  They Ufc.
are of fome reafonable tife in Phyfick. Evony-
mus mingles Saxifradge with the blood agaitifi
the ftone. Wektrus makes an oyntment of the
fat for the fame grief. Crol/tt milakes falt ofthe
flone, and crabs eyes. The claw of the greater
toe of the right foot, flint in filver, and worn,
helps convulfions. in the lfle Carpathus, the Ptiwy.
claws, and hide, and drinke the athes againft
ruDninlg of the reins; and fprinkle them on
the body to cure itch; and their piffe is good
againit IBear-pifling, and fore throats. A
skiiiwas fold at Bononia for I20. pound,
fome are greater, andfonmelefler.  In Italy DiS're-
they fliew two kinds of skins; a larger, and in- O6pi ln,
clining to white, thought to belong to the
Deer-Wolfe; and a leffer, yellowiflh, which
fome think to bethe Cat- pards.
          CHAP T ER IV.
               Of the Tgfer.
         Fle name of this beaft is irnpofed by Naaiwc
         the Medes from his fwifinelfe, they
         calling an Arrow Tigris. Some fay DJlript.
         he is of the bigneffe ofa Dog; Near-
 chus, of a Horfe. Tlyere hath been a skin
 feen five foot long. He hath fiery glittering
 eyes, a fliort neck, as other beafts that feed
 not on graffe; his clawes crooked,teeth keen,
 feet cloven. There is great ftore of them in Place.
 the Eaft, and South, in India within Ganges,
 and Hyphafis; on mount Caucafus, by the Be-
 fingi near the Peninulei; in Java, where the
 fear ofthemt makes lefre Gun Benjuin; alfo in
 Bengala, and the hillofPeru, and ever in Ta-
 probana. They prey on, and devour all kind Food
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