Of the Silke mrmes 
ru fitji Now if of thcfe your bottoms you require, 
bottoms arebejt Some to referue for future raceand feede, 
t forf"ft!’ 4U Chufe out the cldc ft, for their forward fire 
Makes inward flye the fooner fpring and breede: 
Whereas the latter ones haue lcaft defire. 
And lefter might to perfit Venn* deede: 
For why, their pride is dul, and fpir its coldc, 
liJott Borne in the quarter laft of(i )/ ane olde. 
Wind none of them, which you for breede allot. 
In watrie bath,nor elfe in wine,or lye. 
Left outward moifture innly being got. 
Surrounding, drownes the little infant-flyc , 
And caufe both filings and fecundine to rotte. 
So chat before it liues it learnes to dye: 
Or if you haue them drenched f© for gaine. 
At filmic or fire to dry them take fome painc. 
Singled, then laye them on a table neate, 
vhu^pTerfor C° ucrc d alo're with white(i) PhiUiraes skinne, 
tbtfirflVrlting Stay then againc till Phcebus chariot great 
p*per wat tht J n Qccws bath hath twclue times waflied bin. 
And you flial fee an admirable feate, 
canetim nhitb This form’d and yet transformed broodc within: 
Jran!fWm‘d From which new fliapes new bodies do arife. 
And taiLes to heads , and worms are turn’d to flies." 
Mithtl. Within i i A4ti*ftertht bottoms ftnifbedjhefilktfties iiYt difclofed, 
Whereac 
