7 * Oftkefilkg xtormes 
Againe to view vppon one birchen &redde. 
Some hundred Clewes to hang like cluftred peares^ 
Thofe grecne,thefe pale, and others fomewhat red. 
Some like the locks hanging down? Ph&bu* cares: 
And then.how Nature when each wormeisdead. 
To better ftate in tenne dayes fpacc it rearcs: 
Whp lees all this, and cickleth not in minde > 
To markc thechoyle and plcafurcs in each kinde. 
Eye but their egges, (as Grecians termethetn well) 
And with a penne-knife keeoc diu ide them quite. 
Behold their white, their yolke, their $kin 3 and fhel, 
Diftin& incolour,fubftance,formc,and fight: 
And if thy bodies watchmen do not fwell. 
And caufc thee both to ieape and laugh outright, 
Thinkc God and nature hath that eye denied. 
By which thou&ouldfl fio bruciQa beafls be tried* 
When they arc worms, mark how they color chagc, 
from blacke to browne,from browne to forrel bay. 
From bay todunnc,from dunneto duskieftrange. 
Then to an yron, then to a dappl e gray. 
And how each morne in habites new they range. 
Till at the length they fee that happy day, 
When(iike their Sires and hcau’nly angels bled.) 
Of pure and milk-white Holes they arc pofleft. 
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