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of the seeds of putrefaction, as the great number of 
caterpillars, gnats, and ordinary insects do also 
declare. If they run into spiders, they give signs 
of higher putrefaction, as plenty of vipers and 
scorpions are confessed to do; the putrefying ma- 
terials producing animals of higher mischiefs ac- 
cording to the advance and higher strain of cor- 
ruption.” 
