chap, v.] THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 101 



Nay, the very colours of Caterpillars are, as one 

 has observed, very elegant and beautiful. I shall, 

 for a taste of the rest, describe one of them, which 

 I will some time the next month shew you feeding 

 on a willow-tree, and you shall find him punctually 

 to answer this very description ; his lips and mouth 

 somewhat yellow, his eyes black as jet, his fore- 

 head purple, his feet and hinder parts green, his 

 tail two forked and black ; the whole body stained 

 with a kind of red spots which run along the neck 

 and shoulder-blade, not unlike the form of Saint An- 

 drew's cross, or the letter X, made thus cross-wise, 

 and a white line drawn down his back to his tail ; 

 all which add much beauty to his whole body. And 

 it is to me observable, that at a fixed age this Ca- 

 terpillar gives over to eat, and towards winter comes 

 to be covered over with a strange shell or crust, 

 called an Aurelia ; and so lives a kind 

 of dead life, without eating all the ^ m l g,'J,''' 



winter. And, as others of several kinds 728 and 2'.), 

 , ii-i c a- j in his Natural 



turn to be several kinds or flies and m s t un , 



vermin the spring following, so this 

 caterpillar then turns to be a painted butterfly. 



Come, come, my Scholar, you see the river stops 

 our morning- walk, and I will also here stop my 

 discourse : only as we sit down under this honey- 

 suckle hedge, whilst I look a line to fit the rod that 

 our brother Peter hath lent you, I shall, for a little 

 confirmation of what I have said, repeat the obser- 

 vation of Du Bartas : — 



