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venomous creature, and foon angered : if he gec- 
teth hold of any thing that you hold to him, he 
will not lobfe his hold : if he be ilrucfc by any onei 
he fpitteth poyfon at them. The fpider and the 
Toai have a gireat hatred bne to the Other, yet the 
fpider alwaies Hath the better of it; hecometh 
down by a fmall web, and lighteth upon his head, 
and pjricketh him, or rather biteth him. It is a 
known Story, that Conradns Gefner reciteth out of 
CardlmlFoncetto^ concerning the Tohd, in thefe 
words ; One taking up a reid in the field, i there 
wasaTff^jrf atone end of it; he perceiving that, 
threw it out of his hand ; and returning home, 
when he wais at dinner, he vomited up all that he 
eat, neither did any thing ftay with him that he 
took, untill another gave it him ; not perceiving 
the reafonofit atfirft; afterwards, he confidered 
that the Cane which he took in the field v;as poy- 
foned, which he found to be fo ; the Toad having 
left a kind of vifcous, thick matter, which was not 
able to pierce the skin, and fo could not prove mor- 
tal: thus ht FoKcettfis • and goeth on fuf.- 
chef, and reciteth a ftory out di Matthiolus^ and 
difcourfeth at large concerning the Foads poyfon- 
ing of herbs, rvhich he doth hj fitting upon thehtf 
tnd fending forth a p'oyfonopts molfinre tipon the 
UaveSy rvhich fpreadeth all ever the herh, and doth 
<)oyfdnthe herbs that are next to it ; thus far Gefner, 
We may now confider, a little, the feVeiral com- 
mands that God gave to his people Ifrae fsJoout the 
lifference between thofe creatures that were 
clean, and thofe that were unclean ; and that they 
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