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by experience taught, that fome Catterpillars, ate colo- 
ured fome what like the Herbs and leaves they are nouri- 
(bed with : I gav*e it Elder Icaves to eat, -it devowred 
thofe willingly as I thought jbuc yet once a day only, 
Ac evening afeer SunTer, when it began to be daike, 
k cat halfe an hour together, when it once fell on, and 
being full it ftretched it felfe ngbe out, and in that 
pofturc it looked like a (lick out of a Faggot, for I cou'd 
ice no legg^ at^firft look, and yet was not without them, 
wherefore I have drawn the feet of the forepart of the 
Body, in that part alfo was a rifing bunch ; by the halfe 
of which it fo faftned it felfe, fucking continually like a 
Lei^ch^ that it cou’J fcarce be plucked away, and wo*d 
rather fuffer it felfe to de plucked in pieces, then b.e 
feparated from, what it fltick to, 
Alfa the hinder part of his body was very tenacious.* 
It reprefents a Golpfmithi ForcipJet^ with the which he 
is wont to take z crucH^le out of the fire, he flautting his 
hinder, feet as thofe Foyciples are to be fliut, and in that 
poiture if you fnake him, and tumble hum never fo much, 
he will reft and not move, like a dead thing ; fomatimes 
a whole day together, bin when he crept forward, he 
tot'k.long ftridcs,ftretchingout himfclfe at full length 
right forwards, drawing up the hinder part of his body, 
to his fore part, like a Loop, or the Buckle of a Belv 
and thus he walked. 
The 2 % he putofffa Skin, as many other 
G.ncerpillarsufe to doe, when they are about to change, 
and hung vvith his head downwards, from fix a Clock 
in the morning, unriil eight at night, at which time he 
was alwaycs wont to creep abroad, be eat at nights 
and ilepun the day time. 
Now when the leaves were fallen, and being 
dry, had loft their former tafte and virtue, he refiifed to 
cat any more, the af November, 
he faikd all Winter, doing nothing elfe but fhifeing his 
place 
