Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

De Vacca agresti. cap. 110.

SOmetime a Cowe is wilde. Of such a Cowe Auicen speaketh and Arist. also and say: that in the lande of Parthia is a Cow, that hath haire in hir necke as an Horse, & is of the quantitie of an Hart, therefore many men call that Cow, Equiceruus and such a cow is without horns, & dwelleth in moun∣taines and in woodes, and hath faire ey∣en and is sharpe of sight. And somtime such a Cow hath hornes, but they be li∣tle, as the hornes of an Hart calfe, and bend backward, as the horns of a Goat bucke: and in hir heart is a bone found as in the hart of an Hart, and that bone, when the bloud warmeth, tickeling mo∣ueth the sinewes and substaunce of the heart, and is the cause of mouing a beast to ioye and to lyking: and so by suche tickeling areareth sodainly the head, and leapeth swiftly, and startleth about.

Also li. 8. Arist. saith, that beasts y^t maye not haue helpe of hornes, haue other ma∣ner helpe and succour of kind, and kind giueth switnesse to Harts and to wilde Kine that haue crooked hornes, and may not for greatnesse defend all the bodye, and therefore kinde giueth another help to the wild Cow that helpeth hir great∣ly, casting of dirte, with the which shée noyeth hounds that come nigh hir. Also other hounds that finde such dirte, occu∣pie them about the smell thereof, vntill the beast that may not fight, is fled and scaped perill. Heereof looke before in lit∣tera B. de Boue and Bubalo, y^t is a wild beast.