The Compleat ^Angler 



a kind of red spots, which run along the neck and shoulder-blade, 

 not unlike the form of St. 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, 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 honeysuckle 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 humour 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 Jlaming 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 tk y icy islands, goslings hatched of trees, 

 Whose fruitful leaves, falling into the water, 

 Are turn'd ('tis known] to living fowls soon after. 



So rotten planks of broken ships do change 

 To barnacles. O transformation strange! 

 'Twas first a green tree, then a broken hull, 

 Lately a mushroom, now a jlying gull. 

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