384 PARASITES. 



words of a favourite author : " Surely as Samson at his 

 marriage propounded a riddle to his companions to try their 

 wits thereon ; so God offereth such enigmas in nature, partly 

 that men may make use of their admiring as well as of their 

 understanding ; partly that philosophers may be taught their 

 distance betwixt themselves, who are but the lovers, and 

 God, who is the giver of wisdom." 



^*^ " The sea is His, and He made it." — Psalmist. 



" Verily, for mine own part, the more I looke into Nature's workes, the 

 sooner am I induced to beleeve of her even those things that seem incre- 

 dible." — Pliny. 



" Quapropter, quEcso, ne nostra legentes, quoniam ex his spcrnunt multa, 

 etiam relata fastidio damnent, quum in contemplatione Naturse nihil possit 

 videri supervacuum." — Plinius. 



