ABSTRACT

I Have though t good to referve this Beaft t o this place, fo r that it is a kinde of Sheep, and there-fore of natural r ight and linage to this ftory, for it is not unlike a Sheep, except in the wool which may ra ther feem to be the hair of a G o a t ; and this is the fame which the antients did call Vmbric£ over, Vmbrian Sheep, for that howfoever it differeth f rom Sheep,yet in fimplicity and other inward g i f t S lC c o m e t h n e a r e r t 0 Sheep. Strabo calleth it Mujmo, yet the Latins call it Mujimon. This beaft by Cato is called an Affe, and fometimes a Ram, and fometimes a Mufmon. The p i d u r e which here we have expreffed istaken f rom the f ight of the Beaft at Caen in Normandy, and was af terwards figured by Iheodorus Beza. Munfter in his defcription of Sjrdinia remembreth this beaft bu t he faith that it isfpeckled, whereat I do not much wonder , feeing that he confeffeth that he ha th all that he wrote thereof , by the Narra t ion of others .