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¹ Knowest thou the tyme when the wilde gotes brige forth their yoge amoge the stony rockes? Or layest thou wayte when the hindes vse to fawne?² Rekenest thou the monethes after they ingendre, yt thou knowest the tyme of their bearinge?³ Or when they lye downe, when they cast their yonge ones, & when they are delyuered off their trauayle & payne?⁴ How their yoge ones growe vp & waxe greate thorow good fedinge?⁵ who letteth the wilde asse go fre, or who lowseth the bodes of the Moole?⁶ Vnto who I haue geuen the wyldernes to be their house, & the vntilled londe to be their dwellinge place.⁷ That they maye geue no force for the multitude off people in the cities, nether to regarde the crienge of the dryuer:⁸ but to seke their pasture aboute the moutaynes, & to folowe vpon the grene grasse.⁹ Wyll the vnicorne be so tame as to do ye seruyce, or to abyde still by thy cribbe?¹⁰ Cast thou bynde ye yock aboute him in thy forowes, to make him plowe after the in ye valleis?¹¹ Mayest thou trust hi (because he is stroge) or comitte thy labor vnto hi?¹² Mayest thou beleue hi, yt he wil brige home yi corne, or to cary eny thinge vnto yi barne?

¹³ The Estrich (whose fethers are fayrer the ye wynges of the sparow hauke)¹⁴ whe he hath layed his egges vpon the grounde, he bredeth them in the dust,¹⁵ and forgetteth them: so that they might be troden with fete, or broken with somme wilde beast.¹⁶ So harde is he vnto his yong ones, as though they were not his, and laboureth in vayne without eny feare.¹⁷ And that because God hath taken wisdome from him, & hath not geuen him vnderstondinge.¹⁸ When his tyme is, he flyeth vp an hye, and careth nether for horse ner man.

¹⁹ Hast thou geuen the horse is strength, or lerned him to bowe downe his neck with feare:²⁰ that he letteth him self be dryuen forth like a greshopper, where as the stoute neyenge that he maketh, is fearfull?²¹ he breaketh ye grounde with the hoffes of his fete chearfully in his strength, and runneth to mete the harnest men.²² He layeth asyde all feare, his stomack is not abated, nether starteth he a back for eny swerde.²³ Though the quyuers rattle vpon him, though the speare and shilde glistre:²⁴ yet russheth he in fearsly, and beateth vpon the grounde. He feareth not the noyse of the trompettes,²⁵ but as soone as he heareth the shawmes blowe, tush (sayeth he) for he smelleth the batell afarre of, ye noyse, the captaynes and the shoutinge.

²⁶ Commeth it thorow thy wysdome, that the goshauke flyeth towarde the south?²⁷ Doth the Aegle mounte vp & make his nest on hye at thy commaundement?²⁸ He abydeth in the stony rockes, ad vpon the hye toppes of harde mountaynes, where no man can come.²⁹ From thence maye he beholde his praye, and loke farre aboute with his eyes.³⁰ His yonge ones are fed with bloude, and where eny deed body lyeth, there is he immediatly.