quarters) was taken priſoner in the battell of the Pigmies, and was ſolde to the King of Pheaſants with condicion to be ranſomed. Who ſeeing ſo fantaſticall a beaſt with ſo great barbs, which ſometime were a pale blew, ſometime a ſkie colour, now changed from that to white, and then to black againe, he wondered to ſee thoſe ſodeine chaunges: and more beholding his ſwelling and railing up his fethers, putting forth that home of fleſhe, he ſayde he neuer ſaw before ſo goodly a woonder. And talking a little with him, hee founde him of a bigge voyce, of fewe wordes, but reſolute, ſo as hee made much of him. And wote ye what? thither came a number of beaſtes of his countrie (vnderſtanding of his captiuitie) to ranſome him. But he being high minded, and reputing himſelfe the chiefe Birde of the dunghill (as true he was) would neuer ſay he was a priſoner, but that he was amongſt the Pheſants for his pleaſure, and thus diſpiſed their fauor and the helpe of them all. On a time there came a friend of his to him, and ſecretly offered to giue him (that no man mould know it) ſo much golde as ſhould redeeme him out of priſon. But he refuſed it, and woulde none of it, bicauſe he would not ſeeme to be a priſoner. In the ende (neceſſitie enforcinge him, and remembring his
