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 Hinnulo. ca. 59.

THE Hart Calfe is called Hinnulus, and hath name Hinnulus, of Innu∣endo, becking, and nodding, for he is hid by beckes and signes of the Hinde, as I∣dore sayth, libro. 12. and is a féeble beast and loth to fight, as D••mula is, and hée is most sharpe of sight, and swifte of course and of running, and the Hinde hi∣deth him in caues and dens, and in pla∣ces that bée shadowye, and teacheth him to start and to leape ouer briers, thorns, and bushes, as Plinius sayeth, libro. 8. cap. de Ceruis. Looke before in littera C. His flesh is tender and good to defie, for hée is oft moouing and stirring aboute, as Constantine sayth, & Isaac in Dietis. And if he be gelded ere his hornes grow, his flesh is the better and the more tem∣perate in drinesse and in heat, as he saith, And if he be gelded while he hath horns,

then he chaungeth neuer his Hornes, as Aristotle sayth libro. 8. and Plinius. Al∣so the Hart Calfe is contrary to the ser∣pents in a wonderfull wise, for he y^t is a∣nointed with his sewet or w^t his bloud, shall not be touched of any Serpent that day, as Plinius sayth, lib. 38. And his ru∣ening is chiefe medicine in venims, as he sayth.