Of the (generation of Animals .

-si er, tmrre his seed. Or, if she could so conceive, and bring her birth to per-fection , how , or by what food should it be nourished aster the birth ? But,though this can hardly be, yet I donoc think it altogether impossible, seeing allmen are not of a like complexion, but some may be found, whose complexion dothnot much differ from a horses; and some men also have longer and larger genito-ries then others ; as also some Mares and Asses have lesse and shorter genitoriesthen others have: and it may be too, that some celestial influence hath a strokeinir, byenliving the seed, and causing the Dam to conceive it, and bring it forthin due time. And because all these things do very seldom concur together, there-fore such births are very seldom seen. tÆlianus writeth another story, That therewas once generated

A half~bcaft of a Man and a Goat,

There was a certain young man in Sybaris, who was called Crachis , a luster afterGoats; and being over-ruled by his lust, coupled himself with a fair Goat,the fairest he could light upon, and lived with her as his Love and Concu-bine, bestowing many gifts upon her, as Ivy and Rushes to eat; and kepther mouth very sweet, that he might kisse her; and laid under her soft grasse,that she might lie easie, and sleep the better. The He-goat, the Ring-leaderof the Herd,espying this,watcht his time when the young man was on steep, andfell upon him and spoiled him. But the She-goat, when her time was come,broughtforth an infant that had the face of a man, but the thighs of a Goat. The fameAuthor writes,That

Women lie with He-goats, and with the CynoctphaU ;

for the He-goats are so lecherous, that in the madnesse of their lust, they will setupon Virgins, and by force ravish them. Herodotus in his second book, writethof a He-goat, that had to do with a woman openly, and in the sight of manymen standing by. Strabo faith, that in the Mediterranean Sea, a little without themouth of a 'River neer to Scbenis and Pharnix, there is an Island calledXcas, and a City within the Province of Sebenis, and the Cities Hermopo-lls. and Mendes, where Pan is honoured for a God, and with him is likewisehonoured a He-goat; and there, as Pindartu reports, He*goats have to dowith women: In the utmost corner of the winding of the River ’Hilsu , faithhe, are fed certain Herds of Goats; and there the lecherous He-goats aremingled with women. tÆlianus »\(o writes of the Indians, that they will nocadmit into their Cities any red Apes,because they are oft-times mad in lust towardswomen and if at any time they find such Apes, they hunt and destroy them,as be-ing adulterous beasts. 'Plinj writes also, That

Man couples with divers hinds of beasts ;

for some of the Indians have usual company with bruit beasts; and that whichis so generated, is half a beast, and half a man.

Chap. XIII.

That divers hinds of birds map be generated of divers birds coupling togethen

B Efore we come to speak of the commixtion of birds, it is meet to pre*soribe certain observations for the more easie effecting thereof; that ifWe have need to supply any defects in any birds, we may be the better

I 2 instructed