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fitres of the veins and veflels of life; 

 wherein according to common Anato 

 my the right and tranfverfe fibres are 

 decuflatcd, by the oblique fibres $ and 

 fo muft frame a Reticulate and Qiiin- 

 cunciall Figure by their Obliquations, 

 Emphatically extending that Elegant 

 expreffion of Scripture* Thou haft cu- 

 rioufly embroydered me, tbou haft 

 wrought me up after the fiaeft way of 

 texture , and as it were with a 

 Needle. 



Nor is the fame obfervable only in 

 fome parts, but in the whole body of 

 man, which upon the extenfion of arms 

 and legges , doth make out a fquare, 

 whofe i nterfeftion is at the genitals. To 

 omit the phantaftical Quincunx, inP/rf- 

 /^ of the nrft Hermaphrodite or double 

 man, united at the Loynes,which Jtfittf 

 after divided^ 



A rudimentall refemblance hereof 

 there is in the cruciated and rugged folds 

 of the Reticulum, or Net-like Ventricle 

 of ruminating horned animals , which 

 is the fccond in order , and culinarily 

 called ihe Honey-comb. For many di 

 L 3 vifions 



