Moreover men herein do strangely forget the obvious relations of history, affirming they have no joints, whereas they dayly read of several actions which are not performable without them. They forget what is delivered by _Xiphilinus_, and also by _Suetonius_ in the lives of _Nero_ and _Galba_, that Elephants have been instructed to walk on ropes, in publick shews before the people. Which is not easily performed by man, and requireth not only a broad foot, but a pliable flexure of joints, and commandible disposure of all parts of progression. They pass by that memorable place in _Curtius_, concerning the Elephant of King _Porus, Indus qui Elephantem regebat, descendere eum ratus, more solito procumbere jussit in genua cæteri quoque (ita enim instituti erant) demisere corpora in terram_. [SN: De rebus gestis Emanuelis.] They remember not the expression of _Osorius_, when he speaks of the Elephant presented to _Leo_ the tenth, _Pontificem ter genibus flexis, et demisso corporis habitu venerabundus salutavit_. But above all, they call not to mind that memorable shew of _Germanicus_, wherein twelve Elephants danced unto the sound of Musick, and after laid them down in the _Tricliniums_, or places of festival Recumbency. They forget the Etymologie of the Knee, approved by some Grammarians. [SN: Γόνυ _from_ γωνία.] They disturb the position of the young ones in the womb: which upon extension of legs is not easily conceivable; and contrary unto the general contrivance of Nature. Nor do they consider the impossible exclusion thereof, upon extension and rigour of the legs. Lastly, they forget or consult not experience, whereof not many years past, we have had the advantage in _England_, by an Elephant shewn in many parts thereof, not only in the posture of standing, but kneeling and lying down. Whereby although the opinion at present be well suppressed, yet from some strings of tradition, and fruitful recurrence of errour, it is not improbable it may revive in the next generation again. This being not the first that hath been seen in _England_; for (besides some others) as _Polydore Virgil_ relateth, _Lewis_ the French King sent one to Henry the third, and _Emanuel_ of _Portugal_ another to _Leo_ the tenth into _Italy_, where notwithstanding the errour is still alive and epidemical, as with us. [Sidenote: _Round, Pillar-like._]