The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].
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The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].
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[Antwerp :: Emprented by me Ioh[a]n of Doesborowe],
[1527?]
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Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68218.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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Of the Horse. cap. liiij.
[illustration]
THe Horse is a beste yt engendreth in all places of the world / & amō¦ge all colours. ye blacke is best. ye brow¦ne baye next / & the white thirde / but al other colours be taken for worse. Ari¦stoteles sayth. That ye horse & ye mare haue more desyre to theyr engendrīg than ony other bestes on erth / for it is wryttē that no beste after that it hath receyued ye nature of frute wyll haue adoe more wt his male or female / saue only ye womā and ye mare / & the horse may make ye generaciō tyl he be .xxxv.
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yere olde / and ye mare may bere here frute tyll she be .xl. yere of age agaynst the natuere of all other bestes / the hor¦se hath whyte tethe in his age / and he hathe no gall.
The Operacion
Diascorides saith That ye mares myl¦ke laxatiuith the bely Fresshe horse dō¦ge bront stoppeth blode. The drye don¦ge strewed in ye nose stancheth blode / & it be put in ye eere it wt driueth ye payn. yf a woman be set on a chayre wt a ho¦le & hors doūge vnd it takynge ye ayre of thesame delyuereth her of her dede frute & after birth or secondina. The blod of a stoned hors or of a mare that hathe ben foled eteth our euyll boches or great byles. The olde hors donge or stale donge brent to asshes driueth out the dede frute or dede byrth out of the moders wombe.
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