r4o A NATURAL HISTORY 



Wound from a little feeble Archer. For 'tis Satisfaftion to the 

 Vanquifh'd to die by the Hand of heroic Valour ; hence that of 

 Virgil J 



/Enece Magni dextra cadis 



"Tis by the Great Eneas' Hand you fall. 



The reafon was, becaufe the Lacedemoniajis were wont to fight 

 with Swords, therefore it was not counted Bravery to kill Meri 

 with a Dart, a thing that may be done by any Woman. 



S o in the vegetable World, there are Cedars and Shrubs. In 

 Natural Philofophy, we read oi Atoms, that are Minima Natures, 

 the ultimate Particles into which Matter is divifible, and are 

 conceived as the firft Rudiments, or component Parts of all phy- 

 fical Magnitude, or the pre-exiftent and incomprehenhble Mat- 

 ter,, whereof particular Bodies were formed j there are Mountains 

 and Mole-Hills, 



So ... . there was Alexander the Great, and there is Alexander 

 the Little, the ingenious and learned Mr. Fope ; the one con- 

 quered by the Sword, the other by his Pen, and has made all the 

 Regions of Fame tributary to him. 



CXXIV, The tame and tradable Serpe?2t, is of the Indian 

 Race, about an Inch long, when brought firft from the Field 

 for domeftick Education ; and when at its full Growth, is not 

 much fliort of a Man's Thigh. Its Habitation is in fome Mttle 

 Hutch eredled on purpofe, {indulgentice gratia) where it idles 

 away its time, till Hunger brings it out. Upon its Approach to 

 the Mafter of the Houfe, it creeps up to his Shoulders, where 

 the Embraces of that terrible Creature (being made tame) are re- 

 ceived with Delight *. 



CXXV. The T^leoa, or Tetloa, that is, a little fiery Serpent, and 

 very common in the new World, and defcribed by the Hiftorian 

 thus -f-, mz. 'Tis about a Finger broad, and five or fix Foot long, 

 and differenced from others by a Medley of Spots, compounded 

 of white, black, yellow, and dun Colours. The Head is like 



that 



* Nieremhergius, ap. xl. p. 285. — Humerosheri amice conrcenduntj bensvole 

 tcrrifici anitnalis amplexus tolerantij. 



f Niere77iher^ius, from fmncifctis Hervandu}. 



