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TIgris is the most swiftest beast in flight, as it were an arrow, for ye Per∣sians call an arrow Tigris & is a beast spotted with diuers specks, & is wonder∣full strong and swifte: and the Riuer Tigris hath the name of this beast, for it is the most swiftest of all floudes.
And in the more Hircania bréedeth ma∣nie beasts of this kinde. Huc vs{que} Isid. And Haec Tigris, dis, is the name of the riuer. Looke before De fluminibus. And Plinius speaketh of the Tigers & sayth: that beastes of that kinde come out of Hircania, and are beastes of dreadfull swiftnesse, and is namely knowen when he is taken, for the whelpe is all glemie and sinewie: and the Hunter lieth in a∣waite and taketh away the whelpes, & flyeth soone awaye, on the most swifte horse that he may haue: and when the wilde beast commeth, and findeth the den bayd, & the whelps away, then he ri∣seth headlong, and taketh the sore of foo∣ting of him that beareth the whelpes a∣way, and followeth him by smell: and when the hunter heareth the grutching of that beast that runneth after him, hée throweth downe one of the whelpes, & the Tiger bitch taketh the whelpe in hir mouth, and beareth him into hir den, & layeth him therein, and runneth againe after the hunter: but in the meane time the hunter taketh a ship, and hath with him the other whelpes, and scapeth in that wise: and so she is beguiled, and hir fiercenesse standeth in no stéede. For as Plinius saieth lib. 6. cap. 19. the male careth not for the whelpes. And he that will bears away the whelps, leaueth in the way great mirrours, •••••• the damme followeth and findeth the mirrours in the waye, and looketh on them, and séeth hir owne shaddowe and image therein, and thinketh that she séeth hir young therein, and is long occupied therefore to deliuer hir whelpes out of the glasse, and so the Hunter hath time and space for to scape: and so she is beguiled with hir owne shadow, and she followeth no farther after the Hunter to delyuer hir young.