A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.

Of the Bugle or wilde Oxe.

THe Bugle or the wilde Oxe, is said to be so wilde, that his necke by no meanes can be brought vnder the yoke. And is called Buba∣lus for nigh resemblance to our Oxe. In Af∣frick they are verie plentifull: he is of great strength and force, almost not to be tamed: but only with an Iron ring put through his Nos∣trils or Snowte, wherewith they leade him whither they list. There is another kinde of wilde Oxe, which the Philosophers call Ap∣taleo,

but nothing so huge or great, but hath hornes much greater, very sharpe also where∣with he heweth downe trées, and thrusting vp his hornes sometimes vp to the boughes of the Trées, entending to reach foode thereby, doth now & then with force of his hornes had, sticke fast by them in the Tree, wherewith he being chafed and vexed, howleth out aloude, whose horrible crie the Huntesman hauing once hard runneth with fast foote thither, whereas he is snared, and so commeth by him, and else by no other meanes, and so sleaeth him. There is al∣so another kinde of wilde Oxe or Bull, called of Aristotle & Plinie Bonasus, a little shorter than our Bull, but more thickly set, and hath his Mane like to our Horse. His flesh is Uene∣sonlike: for the which he is so often hunted. And in the game time he vseth this knack or pro∣pertie: he runneth vntill he be wearie, and in his flight taking and course, he flingeth forth and befowleth behinde both of his vrine and dung, euen whole furlongs long after him, and with such annoiance wearieth the Cour∣ser or Huntesman.