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dition it remained for 5 5 Daycs, not ob(cureiy,repre(enti 
ing the Face of a Man with a Beard, and in the other 
parts a Child in Swadling Cloathes. 
The 2 broke forth a Bniterfiy^ figured in 
thif Catterpillar, feeds alp> of Liguftrum or Primp 
leav&tandk to he found about Primp hedges, with us in 
England % Jtis ansoji beautifnll Creature, 
Nsimber. s4' 
G.f.ll 
■T^.r. 
I v’ft to call the Catterpillar of the 26#^. Table the£/<t. 
phant becaufe of its Snout» it feeds of Vine leaves, when 
it has done feeding it draws up its Head within its Body, 
and hides it'felfe like a Tertoije, its very fearefull, for 
being touched never fo lightly, it trembles and is afto- 
nifhed, enough to caofe the fame afieftions in the be- 
holders. It can turn its Snout very dexteroufly every 
way, and what its layes hold of with it, its hardly to be 
got from itjfor it hath great ftrength : Its very quick of 
Jhearing, for at the leaft noifeit feares and contrafts it 
felfe, as I have often tryed. 
The time of its charge approaching, it abftaines from 
meat, and leeks a fit place to reft in, and to that pur- 
pofelput itfome bits of Wood and Vine leaves which 
and the juice Of its Body nlixt, it made it felfe a Houfe, 
and changed in it, the 4th.' of September , 1665. And 
lived in it untill the 16#^. of siprill and longer, which 
thing ! obfervedbymine Eye and Touch, being uncei> 
tain what wou'd become of it. 
F 2 ' When 
