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my discourse, pray remember these wonders were done by birds 

 of the air, the element in which they, and I, take so much plea- 

 sure. 



There is also a little contemptible winged creature, an inhabitant 

 of my aerial element, namely, the laborious Bee, of whose prudence, 

 policy, and regular government of their own commonwealth, I might 

 say much, as also of their several kinds, and how useful their 

 honey and wax are both for meat and medicines to mankind ; but 

 I will leave them to their sweet labour, without the least disturb- 

 ance, believing them to be all very busy at this very time amongst 

 the herbs and flowers that we see nature puts forth this May 

 morning. 



And now to return to my Hawks, from whom I have made too 

 long a digression. You are to note, that they are usually dis- 

 tinguished into two kinds ; namely, the long-winged, and the 

 short-winged Hawk: of the first kind, there be chiefly in use 

 amongst us in this nation, 



The Gerfalcon and Jerkin, 



The Falcon and Tassel-gentle, 



The Laner and Laneret, 



The Bockerel and Bockeret, 



The Saker and Sacaret, 



The Merlin and Jack Merlin, 



The Hobby and Jack : 

 There is the Stelletto of Spain, 



The Blood-red Rook from Turkey, 



The Waskite from Virginia : 

 And there is of short-winged Hawks, 



The Eagle and Iron, 



The Goshawk and Tarcel, 



The Sparhawk and Musket, 



The French Pye of two sorts : 



These are reckoned Hawks of note and worth ; but we have also 

 of an inferior rank, 



The Stanyel, the Ringtail, 



Dove and lighting upon him ;" and Luke iii. 22. "And the Holy Ghost descended in a 

 bodily shape like a Dove upon him," in which the baptism of our Lord is related ? The 

 meaning of both is, that the Holy Spirit descended, as a Dove uses to descend upon 

 any thing, hovering and overshadowing it. Vide Whitby on Luke iii. 22. Dr Hammond 

 on the passage, and Bishop Taylor's Ductor Dulitantium, 254. H. The Rev. Moses 

 Browne's remark on this passage is, "The author seems to have fallen into a common 

 mistake : most learned men think the original passage, Matt. iii. 16, implies the manner 

 of the Holy Spirit s descending like a Dove, i.e., as a Dove descends, with a fluttering 

 gentle motion ; and not that of any corporal likeness, the visibility being on an effulgency 

 of visible light or glory. 



