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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 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 

 confirmation of what I have said, repeat the observation of 

 Du Bartas [6 Day ;] 



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 



Quenches 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 joys, 



Living in that which all things else destroys. 



So slow Bootes underneath him sees, 



In th' icy islands, goslings hatch 'd 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 flying gull. 



