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 Leoparde.

THe Leoparde is a very tiraunte & aduoute∣rous also in his kinde: as saith Plinie. The Lionnesse and Leoparde hauing coniunction togither, or the Lion and Libardesse, bring forth a third kinde, euen as the Horse and Asse, or hée Horse and Mare doe. The Female saith Aristotle, is more cruell than the Male, his colour is bespotted about: his vpper parte of bodie, and his féete also, and taile are all alike to the Lion in outwarde shew. But in y^e head they haue their difference: In bodye he is lesse than the Lion. And by that meanes he is euen with the Lion, and not behinde him in reuen∣ging as Homer witnesseth. He hath his cab∣bage in the yearth with two contrary wayes vndermined to enter into it, or to run out of it at his pleasure: verie wide at the comming in, but as narrow and straight about the mid cab∣bage: whether his enimie the Lion running sometimes after him, and a pace, at the first cō∣ming in thither is narrowly pent: Insomuch that he cannot neyther get forward, nor back∣warde. That seing the Leoparde, he running

a pace out at the furder hole, and commeth to that wheras the Lion first ran in, and hauing him hard pent, & his back towardes him, bigh∣teth & scratchet him with tooth and Nayle. And so by art the Leoparde getteth the victory, and not by strength. The same Leopard also saith Plinie, séeketh after the broode of the wild gote entending therewith to recouer his health.