762. Chap.4i. e/In Expofition upon the Boof¿ofJ o a. Verf. z7. bold as to come near, with a fword in his hand, to firike Levia- than, it is to nopurpofe, for fuch is the ftrength of his natural ar- mour, fuch the hardnefsof his fcales and skin, he is fo prete(ted, fenced, and fortifiedwith thefe, that the fword can do him no more hurt than a thruft or t}roke withabull-rufh. The [word can- not enter. No, nor the [pear, That's another offenfive hand weapon, which we ufc at hand. No, nor thedart. That's another "offenfive weapon, which we ufe at a dit}ance. Some put the fe two, the (pear and the dart, into one, conceiving tDD n,'it that by thefe two, we are to underfland not d fpear and a dart ague profettío- diftinóily, but a darting[pear, or the [pear that goetb forth ; For e. guam there are two forts of fpears. There are force fpears which are bomo pvoficfci held fail in the handof him that affaults. Thereare another fort facítdeBona of fears called javelins, which are call out of the hand. Thus fug. anelam pear , > laciendo.Bold. force (I fay) conceive that we are to put thefe two words into Hoflati fpar- one ; Nor can the darting [pear, or Javelin (which is cart out aunthafla:,ft of a mans hand againti an enemy with greatefl force) enter to fermis ámbar. Ennius. wound him. Nor the habergeon. As if hehad faid;not only cannot chefeoffenfive weapons,fpear, and dart, or the darting-fpear, hurt Leviathan ; but chofe armes which a man puts on to fave himfelf fromhurt, cannot prote& him;Leviathan wilibe too hard for him;though he wearech a Coat of Male, anhabergeon, though he be clothed all over with iron, back and breafi,Cap-a-Pe, yet Leviathan can eafily truth him, be can rend his corflet, as if it werebut a rotten -ragg,and tear it off as Wily as a wifp of thaw ; for, as it followeth, Verf. z7. Hi eficemeth iron as firmly', and brats ae rotten- wood. Thatis,he makes no more of iron andbrats, than we do of a firm, or of a piece of rotten-wood, which crumbles between our fingers,, and is broken with the leaf} firain. You may as foon wound him with a firm, u with a fword, and pierce his Muckier-
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