lJ-6 FLIES. 



Story was, that the lady being attacked by 

 chronical pains in the limbs, had recourse in 

 France to very powerful medicines during 

 six weeks ; and all this time the Flea had 

 not ceased to feed upon her blood, imbued 

 with the vapours, and yet was not the worse 

 for it. 



Fly. — Muse A. 



Observe the head (says a celebrated 

 writer) of a common Fly, in a magnifying 

 glass ; one can never be satiated with seeing 

 such a profusion of gold and pearls on a head 

 so inconsiderable, and comparing it with a 

 secret compassion with some other heads, 

 that affect the like ornaments, without being 

 able to imitate them. What has been said 

 of the lilies of the field, is applicable to Ich- 

 neumon Flies, and a variety of other species : 

 --^Solomon, in all Ms glory, ^'cls not arrayed 

 like the meanest among them. 



St. Pierre tells us, that in a Fly with six, 

 feet (the name is not mentioned), the pair next 



