Thtckmnth Booke of 



bodie ; by rcafon whereof, when it is too flill^thc skin doth cracke and burft, and fo his very food 

 is caufe of his owne deathJn HoifesjAffes^andMuIeSjthefe doe never breed. In Kine and Oxen 

 they becommon : and otherwhiles in dogs^who arc peftered not oncly with thefe tickes^buc alfo 

 with all other vermine abovenamed. And in Sheepc and Goats a man fball find none other but 

 lickcs* It is as ftrange a thing alfo tofec^ how the horfeleeches which be nourifhed in (landing 

 waters of fennes, are thirftie after blond. For thcfe will thruft their whole head in to the flefbfoi: 

 to draw and fucke out bloiid.Finallyjtherc is a kind of flies that plagueth dogges, and noneels : 

 they are bufie commonly about their earcsjwhere they will bite & fting them (hrc wdly , for there 

 they cannot come by them with their teeth to fnap and kill them* 



Chap. xxxv. H 

 of Moths and Gnats ^ 



WOoIl and cloth when they be duftic breed moths^ efpecially if a Spider alfo be gotten 

 within them. For the Spider is very thirftie, and by reafon that lie drinketh up all the 

 moifturc of the cloth or wooll, he increafeih the drinelle much more. In paper alfo 

 they will engender. A kind of them there is that carie their coats and cafes with them , as Cockles 

 and Snailes doe : but they have feet to be fecn. If they be turned out of their coats or husks5they 

 prefently die. If they grow ftill^thcy willproovetobe Chryfalides .The wild fig-tree doth breed 

 certaine Gnats called Ficarij. As for the Cantharides or French greene flics, they be bred of lit- 

 tle wormes in Fig-trecSjPcare-trecsjWild Pines or Pitch- trees, the Eglantine briet^and Rofes: A J 

 venomous vermine this is^howbeit^medicinable in fome fort. The wingsbe they that are good 

 in Phyficke : caft them away^and the reft is deadly. Moreover, there be other Gnats, that loure 

 thingswill engender. And no marvell,leeing that there bcfomcwormes found in Inow^Si thcfe 

 are white,if the fnow be but thin and new fallen.But in cafe it have lien longhand be deepe^a man 

 iliall find in the mids within^thofe that arc red, (forfnow alfo if it be old,waxethred) rough and 

 hairie,greater alfo than the reft,and dull of motion. 



Chap. XXXVi. 



Of thefre-jJie^calledPyraliscrFjrauJla* 



K 



THe fire alfoja contrarie clement to gcneration,is not without fome living creatures cngen- 

 dred therein.For in CypreSjamong the forges and furnaces of copper,there is to be Icen 

 a certaine foure- footed creature, and yet winged,(as big as the greater kind of flies) to flie 

 out of the very middeft of the fire : and called it is oTfome Pyralis,of others Pyraufta.The nature 

 ofitisthis:Solongasitremainethinthcfirc,itliveth:butif itchauncetoleapefoorth of the 

 furnace,and to flie any thing far into the aire^it dicth. There is a river in the kingdome of Pontus 

 called Hypanisjwhich about the Summer Sunneftead, ufeth to bring downe the ftreame certain 

 thin pellicles or bladders like unto grape kernils : out of which there breaketh forth and iffueth a 

 foure footed flic,likc unto thofe abovenamed: and it liveth not above one dayjwhereupon it is 

 called Hemerobion, p. a day-flie.] All other Infcds of like fort, may continue and live a feven- ^ 

 night. The Gnat and thclittle wormes, three weekes : but fuch as bring foorth their young alive, 

 may endure a full month. As for the Mctamorphofis of thefe creatures from one forme to ano- 

 ther,it is mofi commonly performed in three daiesjor foure at the moft. All the ref^ of the win- 

 ged kindjiightly die in Autumnc : among which, the Brces and Horfe- flies are ordinarily blind 

 fitfl.To be uiortjthofc flies which have been drowned,and fo come to their dcailvf they be laid 

 and kept in hotc cinders or afhcs^will come againe to thcmfelvies,and revive. 



Chap, xxxvii. 



difcourfe Anatommll^of the nature of living creatures ^^art bj^artj 



according to their particular members 4 ^ 



ITfCmaiMhhowtotrfcat of the fevetall parts of thebodic, and over and above the former 

 defcription,toparticulatizc and fetdovmethc ftorrcof qnemembef after another.Firft ther- 

 fore,this is ^enemfI,cfe«(iSSli Hving creatures whaifoever have alfo heads. And 



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