62 DIRECT BENEFITS FROM MOTHS. 



With the red-capt worm, that 's shut 

 Within the concave of a nut, 

 Brown as his tooth. A little moth, 

 Late fatned in a piece of cloth ; 

 With withred cherries, mandrakes' eares, 

 Moles' eyes ; to these the slain stag's teares, 

 The unctuous dewlaps of a snaile, 

 The broke heart of a nightingale 



Orecome in musicke. 



This done, commended 



Grace by his priest : the feast is ended. 



Reaumur has suggested, that it is probable that 

 water colours, of beautiful tints, might be obtained 

 from the faeces of the larvae of the common Clothes 

 Moth, which retains the colour of the wool they have 

 eaten with undiminished lustre, and mixes easily with 

 water. To get a fine yellow, blue, red, purple, green, 

 or any other colour, it would only be necessary to 

 feed the larvae with cloth of the tint required.* 



But of all the benefits to be derived from the 

 papilionaceous tribes, none can equal that of silk, 

 from which is made the richest of dresses, for the 

 fair sex of almost all civilized countries, and which 

 adds a lustre to courts themselves ; and, whether we 

 estimate it on that account, or for the importance of its 

 manufacture, in giving employment to thousands of 

 individuals, it must be admitted as a singular blessing 

 bestowed by Providence on man, by simple and 

 natural means. 



* REAUMUR, iii. 95. 



