Part I. in the C^y. atio n. 125 



or the Entrails of Beads, lying in the Fields, ex- 

 posed to the hot Sun-beams, can laft but a few- 

 Days in Cafe and Condition to be a fit Aliment 

 for thefe Creatures, but will foon be quite parch'd 

 and dry'd up, and therefore the moil: wife Crea- 

 tor hath given fuch a Nature and Temperament 

 to them, that within a very few Days they attain 

 to their juft Growth and Magnitude; whereas 

 Cifi the contrary, other Maggots, who are in no 

 fuch danger of being flraiten'd for Food, conti- 

 nue a whole Month or more before they give 

 over to eat and ceafe to grow. He proceeds fur- 

 ther to tell us, that feme of thefe Fly-maggots 

 which he fed daily with frefh Meat, he brought 

 to Perfedlion in four Days time ; fo that he con- 

 ceives that in the Heat of Summer the Eggs of a 

 Fly, or the Maggots contained in them, may in 

 lefs than a Month's Space run through all their 

 Changes, and come to perfedl Flies, which may 

 themfelves lay Eggs again. 



Secondly, I fhali take notice of the various 

 ftrange Inftinds of Animals, which will neceffa- 

 rily demonftrate that they are direfted to Ends 

 unknown to them by a wife Superintendent : As 

 I. That all Creatures fliould know how to de- 

 fend themfelves and offend their Enemies, where 

 their natural Weapons are fituate, and how to 

 make ufe of them. A Ccilf will fo manage his 

 Head as tho* he would pulh with his Horns even 

 before ihey (hoot. A Boar knows the Ufe of his 

 Tuflies; a Dog of his Teeth; a Horje of his 

 Hoofs ; a Ccck of his Spurs ; a Bee of her Stin-^ ; 

 a Rai?i w ill butt with his Head, yea tho' he be 



brought 



