If such fury be in vegetals, what shall we think of sensible creatures, how much more violent and apparent shall it be in them!

[4662] “Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarum,
        Et genus aequoreum, pecudes, pictaeque volucres
        In furias ignemque ruunt; amor omnibus idem.”

       “All kind of creatures in the earth,
          And fishes of the sea,
        And painted birds do rage alike;
          This love bears equal sway.”

[4663] “Hic Deus et terras et maria alta domat.”

Common experience and our sense will inform us how violently brute beasts are carried away with this passion, horses above the rest,—­furor est insignis equarum. [4664]"Cupid in Lucian bids Venus his mother be of good cheer, for he was now familiar with lions, and oftentimes did get on their backs, hold them by the mane, and ride them about like horses, and they would fawn upon him with their tails.”  Bulls, bears, and boars are so furious in this kind they kill one another:  but especially cocks, [4665] lions, and harts, which are so fierce that you may hear them fight half a mile off, saith [4666]Turberville, and many times kill each other, or compel them to abandon the rut, that they may remain masters in their places; “and when one hath driven his co-rival away, he raiseth his nose up into the air, and looks aloft, as though he gave thanks to nature,” which affords him such great delight.  How birds are affected in this kind, appears out of Aristotle, he will have them to sing ob futuram venerem for joy or in hope of their venery which is to come.

[4667] “Aeeriae primum volucres te Diva tuumque
        significant initum, perculsae corda tua vi.”

“Fishes pine away for love and wax lean,” if [4668]Gomesius’s authority may be taken, and are rampant too, some of them:  Peter Gellius, lib. 10. de hist, animal. tells wonders of a triton in Epirus:  there was a well not far from the shore, where the country wenches fetched water, they, [4669]tritons, stupri causa would set upon them and carry them to the sea, and there drown them, if they would not yield; so love tyranniseth in dumb creatures.  Yet this is natural for one beast to dote upon another of the same kind; but what strange fury is that, when a beast shall dote upon a man?  Saxo Grammaticus, lib. 10.  Dan. hist. hath a story of a bear that loved a woman, kept her in his den a long time and begot a son of her, out of whose loins proceeded many northern kings:  this is the original belike of that common tale of Valentine and Orson:  Aelian, Pliny, Peter Gillius, are full of such relations.  A peacock in Lucadia loved a maid, and when she died, the peacock pined. [4670]"A dolphin loved a boy called Hernias, and when he died, the fish came on land, and so perished.”  The like adds Gellius, lib. 10. cap. 22. out of Appion, Aegypt. lib. 15. a dolphin at Puteoli