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The Squatina Jo's the fame Love letray^ 
As Dog-fiib dOi hut in a different way. 
Nature has Bags on either [tde prepard J 
Beneath her Gills where jhe do's hide and guard > 
Her frighted Young ; with fudden Danger fear d, J 
Some thro' the Parent' s gafing Throat defend'^ 
Whom as a Houfe^ or Nefiy their Maws defend. 
The Ghxkcus^ for AffeSiony is ly none 
Of all the Fifh Oviparous out-done, 
Clofe hy her Spawn^ Jhe does unwearied fiay, 
Her Offspring to prctetlfrom Fijhof Prey,. 
And when^ with tender Fins, they flrike the Tide^ 
She with them fwims^ their conflant Guard and Gmde^ 
For if it happens y that the tremlling Fry 
Do fome Foraciom Enemy defcry^ 
Opening her Jaws^ Jhe kindly does devour 
Her Young to fave them from tV Invaders Power. ' 
Their Fears removd, Jhe fpues them up ; to eafe 
Her La lour, and reft ores them to the Seas. 
I muft confefs, I would net especft in a Poet, that 
Nicety and Exadnefs of Natural Hiftory, as in a Phdo^ 
fopher^ y,'ho, is not to give a loofe' to his Imagination, 
.but truly to relate Matter of Fadt. But this Particular 
of the Dog fjh, with me^ bears the more Refembkrice 
of Truth for formerly, diflecaiog a Fijh of this Eind.^ 
that was a Female ; as it was furprifing to me at the 
fame tiine, to obferve here the gradual Formation of ft- 
veral F^tus ; fome jaft beginning to be formed, ethers 
an Inch long or Two,- others Four or Five ; foiTie Nine 
or Ten, and fit for Birth : So what comes moft to our 
Bufiners was, Th:it near toe Exit oi the Pudendmn oi 
each fidcj I obferved a Foramen or Hole that was capa- 
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