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Plate 7. 
The Mourn is oblong, and without Teeth. 
There are no Feelrs. 
There are two large Studs upon the Head, juft above the eyes. 
The WinGs are carry’d ftanding upwards, and are unequal in fize. 
The Tait has briftles annex’d to it. 
The Day-Flies are an inoffenfive race ; born to pafs thro’ their little 
ftage of being, the prey to a thoufand enemies; but hurtful to no crea- 
ture: they live about waters, in which they breed; and in their Fly ftate 
have fo {hort a term, that it has been the fubject of feparate hiftories, 
by Naturalifts, and Emblems fo: ...oral writers. The name, Day- 
Fly, arifes from their living in that {tate but one day : but in many 
of the fpecies, even that period is much longer than is allowed. 
The particular kind firft to be figured and defcribed in this place, 
never burfts from its Reptile ftate, till about fix o’clock in a fum- 
mer evening; and never lives to fee the next fun rife. 
Five hours complete its little fpan of life; in the which time, if 
it efcape the Fifth, the Dragon-Flies, and Reed Sparrows, (for all are 
after it) it copulates with the Male; depofits its impregnated eggs 
in the waters ; and dies before the cold of midnight. 
But ‘tis not that thefe hours are all it lives; ’tis in thefe only it 
enjoys the air: but the Worm hatched from the egg of this Fly lives, 
and feeds heartily in the waters, enjoying a much longer date, and 
that in more fecurity ; for it covers its tender, frame with a motley 
cafe of its own confiructing ; and gormandizes unfufpected, and un- 
feen; for one, or fometimes nearly for two years, 
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