MicrRoGRAPHIA. 
tube NN, and a tongue or fucker O, which I have perceiv'd him to flip 
jnand out. Befidesthefe, it hasalfotwo chaps or bitersP P, which are 
] » fomewhat like thofe of an Ant, butIcould not perceive them tooth’d 5, 
_ thefe were thap’d very like the blades of a pair of round top'd Scizers, | 
and were opened and fhut juft after the fame manner 5 with thefe Inftru- 
ments does this little bufie Creature bite and pierce the fkin, and fuck 
out the blood of an Animal,leaving the fkin inflamed with a fmall round 
red{pot. Thefe parts are very difficult to be difcovered, becaufe, for 
the moft part, they lye covered between the fore-legs. ‘There are many 
other particulars, which, being more obvious, and affording no great 
matter of information, I fhall pafs by, and refer the Reader tothe Fi- 
gure. 
Obfery. LIV. Of a Love. 
" His is a Creature fo officious , that ‘twill be known to every one at 
~ §oone time er other, fo bufie, and fo impudent, that it will be intru- 
ding it {elf in every ones company, and fo proud and afpiring withall, 
that it fears not to‘trample on the beft, and affects nothing fo much as a 
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Crown; feeds and lives very high, and that makes it fo faucy, asto pull | 
any one by the ears that comes in its way, and will never be quiet till it 
has-drawn blood’: it’ is troubled at nething fo: much as at a man’ that 
{cratches his head, ‘as knowing that man is plotting and contriving fome 
-mifchief againftit, and that makes it oftentime fculk into fome meaner 
and lower place, and run behind a mans back, though it qorery much 
againft the hairs which ill conditions of it having made it better known 
then trufted, would exempt me from making any further defcription of 
— itjodid not’ my faithful Azercury, my Microfcope, bring me other infor _ 
_» mation of it.  Forthis has difcovered tome, by means of avery bright | 
light caft on it; that it isa Creature of a very odd fhape 5 it hasa liead 
 fhap‘dJike that expreft in 35. Scheme marked with A, which feems al- 
moft Conical, but isa little flatted on the oe and under fides, at the 
__ biggeft part of which, on either fide behin r€ 
- ing the place where other Creatures ears {tand) are placed its two black 
 fhining goggle eyes BB, looking backwards, and fenced round with fe- 
vetal foal cilia or hairs that incompals it,fo that it feems this Creature 
_ has novery good forefight: It does not feemto have any eye-lids , and 
therefore perhapsits eyes were fo placed, that it might the better cleanfe 
them with its fore-legs; and perhaps this may be the reafon, why they 
fo much avoid and run from the light behind them , for being made to 
- Jive in the fhady and dark recefies of the hair, and thence probably their 
eye having a great aperture, the open and‘clear light, efpecially that 
of the Sun, ‘muft needs very much offend’ them} to fecure thele eyes 
_ from receiving any injury from the ‘hairs through which it pafles , _ 
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the head (as it were, be- | 
