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Excerpt from General Biography, or Lives of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Vol. 7: Arranged According to Alphabetical Order M.'a. Being invited in the vacation into the country, ito the house of a relation who was a knight, his curiosity led him to observe the falconer, while he was feeding his hawk, and he began to praise the bird, by saying, what a brave sharp bill she has i Bill 2 said the falconer, it is a beak, sir. By and by he added, what noble claws she has i Claws, sir said he, they are pounces. After wards he commended her fine feathers. Feathers, sir they are plumes. Lastly, he praised her beautiful tail. Tail, sir it is a train. Mr. Mede felt a little mortified at being thus schooled on account of his mistakes about the terms of art, and believing that the falconer would expose him for his ignorance before his fellow servants, contrived the plan of a good humoured retort upon him. The falconer, he observed, was accustomed to wait at table; and therefore taking his opportunity three or four days afterwards, when he thought that the lecturing which he had received was quite forgotten, he engaged the company in 'proposing and solving riddles. While they were exercising their ingenuity, turning sud denly round to the falconer, he asked him, Friend, What kind of bird is that which has neither bill, nor claws, nor feather, nor tail 2 Perceiving that the man was puzzled, and in capable of giving answer why then, said Mr. Mede', I will tell you. It is your hawk that hath no bill, but-beak; no claws, but pounces; no feathers, but plumes; no tail, but a train. There was I'even with him, wouldbe triumphantly say. During his life time, besides his Clavis and Commenta riur already noticed, Mr. Mede published only a treatise, entitled, Churches: or, appro priate Places for God's W'orship ever since the Apostles Time, 1638, quarto; and another, entitled, the Name Altar, or, gtziaxthpxon, anciently given to the holy Table, 1637. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
