4 ?4 X TrMriji <?/ B O D I ES. Chap. 24. 



That one fub- from thct, for example, from corn or an animal, ic carryeth 

 ieTbK> C an- n " " on C Ml changing ic J to be meal or a cadaver: from thence 

 thcr. to be bread or durt: after that to be blond or grade. And fb, 



ftill turning about her wheel ( which fufTereth nothing to re- 

 main lonp in the ftatc ic is in } flic changeth all fubftances from 



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one into another. And by reiterated revolutions, maketh in 

 time every thing of every thing : as when of mud flic maketh 

 tadpoles, and frogs of them ; and afterwards, mud again of 

 the frogs : or when flie runneth a like progrefle; from earth to 

 worms; and from them, to flies; and the like : ib changing one 

 animall into fuch another as in the next precedent {rep, the 

 matter in tho(e circumflances is capable of being changed into; 

 or ratherf to fay better ) muft neceflarily be changed into. 



To confirm this by experience ; I have been allured, by one 

 who was very cxa6l in noting fuch things ; that he once ob- 

 ferved in Spain, in the fpring feafon, how a flick lying in a 

 moifl place, grew in tradi of time to be mcfl of it a rotten dur- 

 ty matter; and that at the durty end of the flick, there began a 

 rude head to be formed of it by little and little; and after a 

 while fome little legs began to difcovcr themfelv<s near this un- 

 poliflied head, which dayly grew more and more diftinftly 

 leaped. And then, for a pretty while (for it was in a place 

 where he had the conreniencie to obfcrve dayly the progrcfle of 

 it, and no body came near to ftirrc it in the whole courie of it ) 

 he could difcem where it ceafed to be a body of a living crea- 

 ture, and where it began to be dead flick or dirt ; ull in one 

 continuate quantity or body. But every day the body grew 

 longer and longer, and more legs appeared, till at the length, 

 when he law the animall almoft finifhed, and near feparating 

 it felf from the reft of the flick, he flayed then by it, and faw it 

 creep away in a caterpillar, leaving the flick and dirt, as much 

 wanting of its fiift length, as the worms body took up. Perad- 

 venturc the greatefl part of fuch creatures maketh their way by 

 fuch fleps into the world. But to be able to obferve their pro- 

 grefle thus diflinclly as this Gentleman did, happeneth not 

 frequently. 



Therefore, to fatisfie our felves herein ic were well we made 



t.oncernm . _ . 



*c hashing of our remarks in fonae creatures that might be continually m our 



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