Of the Eagle.
THe Eagle of his eiesight most sharpe and prest tooke first his name. Isidore saith, that he is of such sharpe eiesight that he flying a∣bout in the top of the ayer in such heigth as he can not be seene ouer the Sea and waters,
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.
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- 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.
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- Maplet, John, d. 1592.
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- Imprinted at London :: By Henry Denham,
- [1567 (3 June)]
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06860.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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yet for all that, through his cleare eyen, there is none so little a fishe that swimmeth so nighe the waters top, but he séeth and espyeth it, and thinking he may come by it, flyeth swiftlye downe to the water where as she is, and duc∣king a little, doth so sodainlye catch hir, as Gonshot that is shot off, or that that is more swift. The chiefest propertie also that he hath else, is that he is good in finding out false play or adulterie done: And this is his triall. Hée taketh his yong when as they be yong & ten∣der, and haue not ful stedfastnesse in their eies, and holdeth them with there eies right oppo∣site to the sunne beames. Those that haue con∣stant and stedfast looke not dazeled by such ex∣periment, he holdeth legitimate and truly be∣gotten, and hath euer good care after to them & their bringing vp. The other that haue their eyne twincle in their head, or which be dazeled at such proofe had, he counteth them Bastardes and misbegotten, and neuer after regardeth them, but repelleth them.