91 DefcclpCton of ittiing 1 1 
herbs are drieft on Mountains : God hath ordered 
|;itfo> that beafts do not fleep much, becaufe 
; they fliould feed in the night-time. Some chew 
: the cud, as oxen. Some creatures are generated by 
! copulation , others are generated out of excre- 
I ments , others both wa yes , as Mice. 
\ I. By naturall conjunction are produced crea- 
tures of the fame kind , as Hans , &c. The 
Serpent layeth Eggs , others again generate neither 
by Seed nor Eggs. * 
2. Some creatures are generated out of rotten 
wood , as Wormes, lice ; &c. many creatures are 
generated of the excrements of other creatures , 
others breed in the bowels of living creatures; 
Bees are generated out of Calves that are ftarved , 
as is noted in that Hiftory of Sampfen • there is a 
Worm bred in the boughs of Oak , of which we 
make a Scarlet colour. So Gmtt are generated out 
ofHorfe-dung. 
3. Some Creatures are generated partly by co- 
pulation , and partly by accident , as Mice : Mice 
are generated in Ships, out of the putrid matter 
which lyeth at the bottom of the Pump. I queftion 
whether all Creatures do not lay Eggs, and whe- 
ther a Hens Egg may not be hatched in a mans bo* 
fom.We fee fmall Creatures are generated in mans 
Body by the heat of fome parts. We find Birds to 
have been bred in Ships;but we leave thefe things to 
be judged of by the more learned. Thofe creatures 
that are of moft ufe to man do generate often, and 
many at a trme,as Doves and Haresi but others ge- 
nerate but feldom,and not many, as Vipers , &c. as 
Herodotus 
