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Of Imagination of Man and Beast.
ONE Man may know what Imagination another Man hath, by the relation of Discourse; but Man cannot know what Imaginations Beasts have, because they can give no rela∣tion to Mans Understanding, for want of Discourse: wherefore Beasts may have, for all any Man knows, as strange and as fan∣tastical Humours, Imaginations, and Opinions, as Men, and as clear Speculations; and Beasts are as busy, and as full of Action, as Men; although not in useless Actions, yet it is in the prudent part, for the subsistence of Life for themselves, and their Young; being provident and iudustrious thereunto, and not like Man, wasting the time with idle Disputes, tormenting themselves to no purpose.