132 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



And it is to me observable that at a fixed age this 

 caterpillar 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 winter. And as 

 others of several kinds turn to be several kinds of 

 flies and vermin, the spring following, so this cater- 

 pillar 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 

 observation of Du Bartas : 



" God, not contented to each kind to give, 

 And to infuse, the virtue generative, 

 By his wise power made many creatures breed 

 Of lifeless bodies, without Venus' deed. 



" So the Cold Humor breeds the Salamander ; 

 Who, in effect, like to her birth's commander, 

 With child with hundred winters, with her touch 

 Quencheth the fire, though glowing ne'er so much. 



" So in the fire, in burning furnace, springs 

 The fly Perausta with the flaming wings 

 Without the fire it dies ; in it, it joys, 

 Living in that which all things else destroys. 



" So slow Bootes underneath him sees, 

 In the icy islands, goslings hatched of trees; 

 Whose fruitful leaves falling into the water, 

 Are turned, 't is known, to living fowls soon after. 



