92 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



yellow, his eyes black as jet, his forehead 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 Andrew'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 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, witliout eating all the winter; and, as others of several 

 kinds turn to be several kinds of flies and vermin the spring fol- 

 lowing, 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 honeysuckle hedge, whilst I look a line to fit the 

 rod that our brother Peter hath lent you, I shall, for a little con- 

 firmation of what I have said, repeat the observation of Du Bar- 

 tas.* 



God, not contented to each kind to give, 

 And to infuse the virtue generative. 

 By his wise power made Jna7iy creatures breed 

 Of lifeless bodies without Venus' deed. 



So the cold humor breeds the salamander, 

 Who, in effect, like to her birth's commayider. 

 With child with hundred winters, ivith her touch, 

 Quencheth the fire though glowing ne'er so much. 



So in the fire in burning furnace springs 

 The fly Pcrausta with the flaming wings ; 

 Without the fire it dies, in it it joys. 

 Living in that which all things else destroys. 



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in a foot note : " View Sir Fra. Bacon, Exper. 728 and 90 (the last a mis 

 take of his printer, for 29 i. c. 729), in his Natural History." The reader 

 will find much on this subject of interest to the angler in Ronald's 

 Fly-Fisher\f Entomology, London, 1S3G, a very beautiful and instructive 

 book, thougli, to niy judgment, carrying the theory of imitation too far. — 

 Jim. Ed. 



* The Sixth Day. 



