in one day (if not at one meale:) eate a whole boare, a hundred loaves, one wea∣ther, and a hogge, as wee read of one in Aurelians time: I dare not adscribe this unto custome onely: no more then, to de∣voure nettles, thistles, the pith of artichockes, raw and living birds and fishes with their scales and feathers, burning coales and can∣dles, &c. and all these in very great quan∣titie, as Karew in his Survey of Cornwall, recordeth of one Iohn Size of Cornwall. That which makes mee to doubt the more, is, because I read in Columbus, a fa∣mous Anatomist, of one Lazarus in Ve∣nice, surnamed Vitrivorax, or the glasse eater, who made a trade of it, mercede pro∣positâ, vitrum, saxa, lapides, ligna, viva animalia, carbones, pisces è vivario ex∣tractos adhuc salientes, lutum, lineos la∣neos{que} pannos, &c, vorare. Now this man falling at last, after his death, to the hands of Columbus to bee dissected by him, hee did his best (as hee professeth:) by obser∣ving all things in him with more then ordinarie curiositie, to find out a reason in nature of this so strange and unnaturall