As for the other conceit, that a Peacok is ashamed when he looks on his legs, as is commonly held, and also delivered by _Cardan_; beside what hath been said against it by _Scaliger_; let them believe that hold specificial deformities; or that any part can seem unhandsome to their eyes, which hath appeared good and beautiful unto their makers. The occasion of this conceit, might first arise from a common observation, that when they are in their pride, that is, advance their train, if they decline their neck to the ground, they presently demit, and let fall the same: which indeed they cannot otherwise do; for contracting their body, and being forced to draw in their foreparts to establish the hinder in the elevation of the train; if the foreparts depart and incline to the ground, the hinder grow too weak, and suffer the train to fall. And the same in some degree is also observable in Turkeys. [Sidenote: _Of the Stork._] 3. That Storks are to be found, and will only live in Republikes or free States, is a petty conceit to advance the opinion of popular policies, and from Antipathies in nature, to disparage Monarchical government. But how far agreeable unto truth, let them consider who read in _Pliny_, that among the _Thessalians_ who were governed by Kings, and much abounded with Serpents, it was no less then capital to kill a Stork. That the Ancient _Egyptians_ honoured them, whose government was from all times Monarchical. That _Bellonius_ affirmeth, men make them nests in _France_. That relations make them common in _Persia_, and the dominions of the great _Turk_. And lastly, how _Jeremy_ the Prophet delivered himself [SN: Ier. 8. 7.] unto his countreymen, whose government was at that time Monarchical. The Stork in the heaven knowing her appointed time, the Turtle, Crane and Swallow observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. Wherein to exprobate their stupidity, he induceth the providence of Storks. Now if the bird had been unknown, the illustration had been obscure, and the exprobation not so proper. [Sidenote: _Of the Bittor._]