fiances jand fo carry ttiem to their fating place: which that they 

 do not by defigne,is evident by the manner of it; for when they 

 havemet with a ilravv or other fit inateriall, they flie not with 

 it directly to their neft, butfirUtoaboughofiometree, or to 

 the top of a hcule ; and there they hop and dance a while with it 

 in their beakes ; and from thence skip to another pJace , where 

 they entertaine themielves in like manner : and at the Jaft, they 

 get to their ne(t : where if the ftraw fhould lie confufediy, their 

 ends would prickeand hurt them : and therefore they turn and 

 liter their portions till they lie Imooth : which we that looke 

 upon the effeft., and compare them with our performing of like 

 acKons (if wehadoccafion) mayca'.la judicious ordering of 

 them, whereas in them, it is nothing but removing iuch things 

 ts prefTe upon their fenfe, untill they caufe them no more paine 

 orunquietneflfe. 



Their plaftering o r their nefts, may be attributed ro the great 

 heat raigning in them at that time which maketh them ftiil be 

 dabbling in moid clay, and in water, and in gra veil , ( without 

 which , all birds will foon grow ficke, blind, and at length die) 

 which (for the coolneffc of it) they bring home to their nefts in 

 their beakes and upon their feet ; and when it groweth dry, and 

 confeauently troublefome to them , they wipe it off, and rubbe 

 their dirty parts upon the place where they ufe to fit j and then 

 flie for more to refrefli themfelves withall. 



Out of all which adtiom (fet on foot by the wife orderer of 

 nature, to compaffe a remote end^ quite different from the im- 

 mediate end that every one of them is done for) there refulteth 

 a fit and convenient place for thefe little builders(that know not 

 what they doe.whiles they build themfelves houfes)to lie in, and 

 to lay theiregge? in. Which the next yeere, when the like occa- 

 fion occurreth, they build againe ; peradventure then, as much 

 through memory of the former,as upon their temper and other 

 circumftances, moving their fantafie, in fuch fort as we have fee 

 downe. 



In like manner, that whiles the Halcyon layechand batchetfi 

 her egges, the fea is calme, needeth no more be^ttributed to the 

 wifdome and providertceof that bird , mehooftng a fit feafoir, 

 then to any good mature or difeowrfe'in that ronling and merci- 



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