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 Boare.

THe Boare saith Isidore, in Latine vocable or word, is called Aper a feritate of fierce∣nesse or wildenesse (chaunge of the Letter. P. had into the letter. F.) of y^e Latines he is eftsoo∣nes called Verres for his great strēgth. He be∣ing gelt sayth Plinie, & Auicen, becommeth so much the more fierce and wilde, whereas all other Creatures liuing waxe thereby the more mil••e. His armourie is a sort of strong ••ushes or tuskes and sharpe. His vse is, to kéepe a good while in his mouth the stalke or sedge of Bar∣ley, such as is sharpe, to enter to the skin: kée∣ping it of purpose to file & sharpen his tushes, which if it will not, he hunteth after the Herbe Organnie, of some called wilde Maioram, which he vseth as a Whetstone to whet his téeth withall. Aristotle in his sixt booke de A∣nimalibus sayth, that the Boare at such time as he hath yong is most cruell and fierce, inso∣much that he can not abide any man to come nigh him, but is maruellously vexed with him.