Having occasion now to speak of the Bull, with its variety of kinds, as the Bugle, Buffe, Bison, and such like, which are of affinity one with the other; I desirous in this place to speak something of the Cow, and then as in other Domestick Beasts, give you their sorts of Diseases, with other terms used by Drovers and Cowherds concerning their Ordering and Keeping.
Taurandrus
[In the original volume, the descriptions of cattle precede square 9.]
Related text(s) Cattle benefits Cattle colour Cattle terms Cattle equipment Cattle feeding
Untranscribed item(s) Observations in Cows, Oxen, Bulls; The parts of a Bull, Oxe, or Cow; Diseases in Cows and their kind; To know the Bull, Cow, or Oxes Age
Elk's horn
Gazel
Bonacan or Bonasus
Bonaze
Bonacon's head
Equicerve or Deer-Horse
Head of a Colus
Ibex or Isbeck or Man-Tyger
Man-Tyger
Man-Tyger
Goat
Assyrian Goat
Pigage or Buck-goat
Wild Goat or Buck goat
Musimon
Antilope
Holy Lamb
Ram
XXVII. He beareth a Ram Horned.
Some term this a Tup; if gelded a Weather.
The Sheep, or Ewe is the same, but she hath no horns except some little stumps in some which stand up above their Ears bending back and close to the head.
Sheep are generally white, some black, near the Alpes, grey and reddish, and Honey-wooled.
In the Isle of Man, yellow, or Lion tawney. They are generally termed Mutton.
Cortynms Sheep, are red, and have four horns.
Demi-ram mounting; Serpent
Golden fleece
XXIX. He beareth the Golden Fleece.
This is so well known in the signs of London, by the term of Fleece, that I dare give it no other Blazon, neither indeed can I give it a more proper expression. This is a Sheep hung by the middle in a Chain from the cheif point.
Related text(s) Sheep terms
Untranscribed item(s) Diseases in Sheep; Parts of Members of Sheep; Observations of Shepherds
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