3 Defcttptton a 24s 
according co our Englifh Proverb, Hornets 
home, though never fo homel'j. The ^fe hatech no- 
thing more than the Snail j but I fliall not dilate 
any further upon this creature. 
GHAP. XX XII L 
Of the Moiife, the Dormoufe, md the 
Mole, 
Hefe are all of them known creatures 5 the 
ComacAlan calleth the Moufe a wife creature'^ 
for he trufteth not himfelf in one hole alvvaies, but 
hath feveral holes to run into ; he compareth them 
to who, like tmce, fed with other 
mens food : he hath a very good (cent and tafte, 
and is vtty glmonous, and will not be contented 
with a little 5 he will tafte of all things, as cheefet 
tread, meat, but will eat only of the beft •• and, as 
among BWAs, the Swallow ; fo, of all creatures 
which live upon the earth, the moufe is the dulleft : 
its urine is exceeding Jlrong and cjfenfive • nay, it 
will eat the flefh to the bone, if it lye long; and 
therefore men ought to be careful that nothing 
they eat be tainted with it. Lemmus,Lih. 2, Chap. 
10. telleth us of a moftfe that was bred in a man ; 
thereafonof which, no doubt, was this, that the 
mice had caft their [perms upon fome of the meat 
that he had formerly eaten ; although Lemnius- 
doth afcribe it to be fome filthy humor that lay in 
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