Of the Onocentaure.
THe Onocentaure is a Beast monstrous, halfe a Bull & halfe an Asse. Onos in Gréeke is translated into our speache, an Asse. But some Philosophers thinke that he is in bodie halfe a man and halfe an Asse. For from the
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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"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 16, 2024.
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Nauell vpward say they, it hath the figure of a Man, and downewarde to the foote it resem∣bleth an Asse. Of this opinion is Plinie. These and such like monsters are nothing else but Natures dalying, and shewing howe she can varie and alter things in their kind, as we may plainely sée in the Hippocentaure, in the Faune & Satire, which Indie bréedeth. It is fabled with the Poets, that Ixion, Iunoes Se∣cretary, prouoked hir to Uenery, which thing Iupiter vnderstanding, made by and by a cer∣taine Cloud to appeare like Iuno to his eyes, with whom he being incensed, & in lecherous loue (nothing supposing but that it was Iu∣no) bespent his séede vpon the Cloude, and therevpon were ingendred those Monsters which are called Centauri; otherwise Geni∣tauri, quod ex aura sint geniti.