Plmies HaturallHiftone. 



A and agrieeablc for their breeding in fuch abundance,is a great drought : alfb^that when they ale 

 towardthcirendj there be little wormes breeding in their heads that kill them. The Mice and 

 Rats of iEgypt have hard haire and prickie, like to Hedgehogs ♦ They gee alfo upright on their 

 hinderfeet^ andwalke like as if they were two-footed :aftCrthe manner of thofe in the Alpes. 

 Moreover^ if beafts of diverfe kinds doe engender together, they may well hr££di young be- 

 twcene them, in cafe they doe agree and jumpe in the timcj that the females of both iliould go 

 with young. It is commonly thought and beleeved ^ that among foure- footed beafts the Lirard 

 hath egges within her, and delivereth them at her mouth, but Anflotle denicth kflatly vliow- 

 beit, they fit not upon them when they have fo done, as being forgetful! where they laid them, 

 fo little or no memorie at all have they. And therefore the young Lizards of themfelves breaks 



B forth out of the fhell. 



I 



Chap, ixvi., y'^A^.r..:^j~r 

 '^of<iSerfeniengendredcfthemarr6rvofamansbackehone,\ 'I 



Have heard many a man fay, that the marrow of amansbackebonewillbrccdto a Snake. 

 And well it may fo be : for furely there be many fecrets in Nature to us unknowne^and much 

 may come of hidden caufes, as we may fee even among foure footed beafts. 



Chap, lxvii. 

 ^ of the Salamander, 



AS for example : the Salamander made in fafbion of a Lizard, marked ;with fp'dts like to 

 ftarres, never comes abroad andfheweth itlelfe butin greatlliowers jforinfaire weather 

 he is notfeene.Heisof focoldacomplexion,thatif bee doe but touch the fire,hce will- 

 quench it asprefencly, as if yce were put into it. The Salamander cafteth up at the mouth a 

 certaine venomous matter like unto milke : let it but once touch any bare^part of a man or wo^ 

 mansbodie, all the haire will fall off; and the part fo touched willchange the colour of the skin 

 to the white niorphew. 



^ Chap, txviil.* 



J-^ of thofe that breed of others which never were engendredji^lfo of thofe 

 that Lew^engendredyjet breed not i 



Ome creatures there be that breed of thofe that never were engcndred themfelves ; and ycc 

 not accordingto thofe naturall meanes asothcrs which we have fhewed before: and fuch al- 

 foaseither the Summer or Springprfome certaine (ealbn of theyeare doe brced.Among 

 which,fome engender not at all,as the Salamanders.-^forthereisnodiftindtonof fexinthem * which is 

 no more than in Yeeles,and in allthofe whichneither lay egs,ne yet bringforth any living crea- ^oun^i untrue 

 ture.Oifterslikewife and all fuch creatures as cleave faft eitl iCr to rocks or to thefhelvesjarenei- "Pe"e«^«*' 

 ther male nor female. As for fuch as come of thejiifeives,if there be feen in them any diftin£tioii 

 of male and female, fomething verily they engender betweene them : but an unperfed creature 

 it is, and not refembling them: neither doth that generation breed ought anymore, asweeiee 

 the flies that doe engender certaine little wormes. The experience hereof is better to bee abfer- 

 vcd in thofe creatures which bee called Infeds : whofe nature is hard to bee exprefTed, and yet I 

 have appointed a feverall treatife for them apart. Wherefore 1 will go forward in thedifcourle 

 begun alreadie, and namely, as touching the fence and underftandingoj the fore-named crea-* 

 tures,and then proceed to the reft. 



Chap. ixiX. 

 The outward fences of living creatures. 



MAn excelleth all other creatures, firft in the fence of feeling, and then of rafting : In the 

 reft, many beafts goe beyond him. For the ^gles have a clearer eiefight^ the Geires a 

 finer fraeli j and the Moldwarpes^ notwithftanding they bcc covered over with earth(fo 



D d iij ~" " hcavie. 



