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Microscopical Essays. 



will contribute to their perfection, and be acceptable to the 

 feveral appetites of their young ones. This is beautifully 

 illuflrated by Mr. Brooke, in his philofophical poem on Univer- 

 fal Beauty, where, (peaking on this fubjeft, he fays, 



Each as reflecting on their primal flate, 



Or fraught with fcientific craft innate, 



With confcious {kill their oval embryo fhed, 



Where native firft their infancy was fed: 



Or on. fome vegetating foliage glued ; 



Or o'er the flood they fpread their future brood ; 



A flender cord the floating jelly binds, 



Eludes the wave, and mocks the warring winds. 



Oer this their fperm in fpiral order lies, 



And pearls in living ranges greet our eyes. 



In firmer! oak they fcoop a fpacious tomb, 



And lay their embryo in the fpurious womb : 



Some flowers, fome fruit, fome gums, or bloffoms chufe, 



And confident their darling hopes infufe ; 



While fome their eggs in ranker carnage lay, 



And to their young adapt the future prey. 



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All by their dam's prophetic care receive 



Whate'er peculiar indigence can crave : 



Profufe at hand the plenteous tables fpread, 



And various appetites" are aptly fed. 



No lefs each organ fuits each place of birth, 



Finn'd in the flood, or reptile o'er the earth. 



Each 



