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Bugils, but all fiery-bloudy, which, neyther looke 

 directly forwarde, nor yet upwards, but contin- 

 uallye downe to the earth. From the crown of 

 their head downe to their nose they have a long 

 hanging mane, which maketh them to look feare- 

 fully. It eateth deadly and poysonfull hearbs, 

 and if at any time he see a bull or other creature 

 whereof he is afraid, he presently causeth his mane 

 to stand upright, and being so lifted up, opening 

 his lips, and gaping wide, sendeth forth of his 

 throat a certaine sharpe and horrible breath, 

 which infecteth and poysoneth the air above his 

 head, so that all living creatures which draw in 

 the breath of that aire are grievously afflicted 

 thereby, loosing both voice and sight, they fall 

 into leathall and deadly convulsions. It is bred in 

 Hesperia and Lybia." The Lamia, of which we 

 are given " the true picture," was another scaly 

 beast, " of which, leaving fables we come to the 

 true description " ; this, we are told, is the beast 

 called ff Lilith " in the Hebrew, " in the foure and 

 thirty chapter of Esay which is there threatened to 

 possess Babell." Like the Gorgon, " this doth not 

 onely kill by biting, but also by poysoning," after- 

 wards " feeding upon the carcasse which he hath 

 devoured . . . the hinder parts of this beaste 

 are like unto a goate, his forelegs like a Beares, 

 his upper parts to a woman, the body scaled all 

 over like a dragon," and so he is represented in 

 the cut. " The Ethiopian Eale," again, was 

 distinctly "a strange beaste," for it had " the 



