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Of the Silfy vtormes 
So hauing left what ere he could impart, 
fling. Of fpirits, humorsjfcedc,and recremenr. 
Willing yet farther tohauc throwne his hart 
Into her breaft,to whom he all things ment. 
He formoft dies and yeelds to fatal dart : 
Ne liues fhe long, but ftrait with forrow fpent, 
(Hauing firft laide theegges i be did conceiue) 
Of loueand life fhc fhortly takes her leaue. 
TKr <&«;»: c SS es the y k.in fcignefle, colour, lhape, 
flow and, big. Like to the mcatc of I tid t ci ft ParrachitCj 
^‘ Ic6 " e in vicw thcn f«dof garden rape. 
Millet jude, In nt ™ cr many, yet indefioite : 
whmmth Par- For when the females womb begins to ga Dr 
whit* mftd. And ren( j cr w hat t h c ma j c g 0t ouer •* 
Now morc,now fewer feeds dropt from the fame 
As they were fhort, or longer at their game. 
Y « feldome are they than a hundred lefTe, 
veggtu ey s ometimes Cvvo hundred from their byncs do fall. 
Round, fraooth, hard-fhelld,and voideofbrirdenes, 
Whited alike,and yellow yolked all, 
Whofe veitues great no man did yet expreffe, 
i the wAuror Much leffe can I w hofe kno wledge is fo fmal, 
IuhIZ ^ 11 T , bou S h fure 1 am hcn « may we find a thcame, 
%£r Able to drink vp(i) Aganippe* ftreame. 
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