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he faw a neceflity of granting Seeds or Principles 

 to determine the Species. For (faith he) if all 

 Sorts of Principles could be connected, 



Fulgo fieri portent a videres^ 



Semiferas hominum Jpecies exifiere^ G? alto^ 

 Inter dum rainos egigni corpore vivoy 

 Multdque conneBi terrejlria membra marinis ; 

 Turn fiafnmam retro fpir antes ore chimaras 

 Pa/cere naturam per terras omniparenteis 

 ^orum nil fieri manifefium efi^ omnia quando 

 Seminibus certis^ certa genetrice^ creata 

 Confervare genus crefcentia pojfe videmus^ &c. 



That is Thence would rife 



Vafi Monfiers^ Nature s great Ahjurdities ; 

 Something half Bea/l, half Man, and fome would 

 Tall Trees above, and /mimals below, (grow 



Some joi?id of Fijh and Beafis, a?id every where 

 Frightful Chimaera's breathing Flaines appear. 

 But fince we fee no fuch, and Things arife 

 From certain Seeds, of certain Shape and Size^ 

 And, keep their Ki?id as they increafe and grow ^ 

 There s fome fix d Reajbn why it pould be fo. 



The raining of Frogs, and their Generation in 

 the Clouds, tho' it may be attefled by many and 

 great Authors, I look upon as utterly falfe and 

 ridiculous j it feems to me no more likely that 

 Frogs fliould be engend&r'd in the Clouds, than 

 S'panifh Gennets begotten by the Wind, for that 

 hath good Authors too 3 and he that can fwallow 

 the raining of Frogs, hath made a fair Step to- 



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