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OUr late Sovereign King Charls, so soon as he became a Man, was wont for Recreation, and Health sake, to hunt almost every week, especi∣ally
the Buck and Doe; no Prince in Europe having greater store either wandring at liberty in the Woods, or Forrests, or inclosed and kept up in Parkes and Chaces. In the three summer moneths, the Buck and Stagge, being then fat and in season, were his game, and the Doe and Hind in the Au∣tumne, and Winter, so long as the three season∣able moneths continued. Hereupon (for the Rut∣ting time, when the Females are lusty, and admit the Males, whereby they conceive and bear their young) I had a daily oportunity of dissecting them, and of making inspection and observation of all their parts; which liberty I chiefly made use of in order to the Genital parts.
We shall therefore disclose the Generation of all Viviparous Animals, out of the History of the Hind and Doe, as being the most commodious Exem∣plar: treating thereof after the same manner as we have already handled the Generation of all O∣viparous productions, out of the History of the Hen-Egge. And this not from any peculiar design of my own, or for the same causes for which I did prefer the Hen-Egge to all other: but because by the favour and bounty of my Royal Master (whose Physitian I was, and who was himself much de∣lighted in this kind of curiosity, being many times pleased to be an eye witness, and to assert my new inventions) I had great store of his Deere at my devotion, and frequent opportunity and license to dissect and search into them.
I intend therefore to set before you the History of Hinds and Does, composed out of my sundry observ ations for many years together, whereby I my self am chiefly versed in them, and from whence also something may be infallibly con∣cluded concerning the Generation of other Vivipa∣rous
Animals: which History, whilest we faith∣fully compile, we shall also insert all those obser∣vable Occurrences, which we have either casually met withall, or else attained by intended disse∣ctions in other Animals; namely, such as are clo∣ven-footed, whole-hoofed, and those which have their feet distinguished into toes, as likewise in Man him∣self: declaring the series, or order of the Forma∣tion of the Foetus, according to the several pro∣ceedings which Nature her selfe doth observe therein.