An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

This creature the Scripture mentions in divers places for one of the most unruly, and untamable, and fierce creature in the world. Such a creature as cannot be brought to be serviceable, it will not be brought to live with men, no, it cannot be brought to live long with other beasts, no nor to keep company with their own kind, so fierce and savage it is, but runs up and down in the wilderness alone. In Job, 11. 12. we have mention of this creature. For vain in an would be wise, though man be born like a wild Asses Colt. And in Job, 39. 5. Who hath sent out the wild Ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild Ass? And in Jer. 2. 24. to name no more. A wild Ass used to the wilderness that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves, in her month they shall find her. ¹In her occasion when he hath a mind unto the female, she snuffeth up the wind, as the Historians say of her, they go up to Mountains and there they seek to have the sent of the female, or the male, so they snuff up the wind even for the sent of her.² And so the Naturalists that write the nature of this Creature, Pliny. in his eighth Book and forty Chapter: Those that are Scholars that desire to know more of the nature of this beast may find divers things there. But now we are only