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Before it changed, it cafl: its fkin, with great difficulty. 
Sweating all over fmall watery drops •• having a new fkin 
it refted for a time, and changed the firft oTJme, and the 
firft of Jttlj came fortha darke coloured Butterfly. 
Malp igius, hath well compared the cafting of $hjm itt 
C,&Wtp\\\jkT$^to the breeding of teeth in children^ becaufi 
both are often accompanied with dreadful! Symptoms. 
The Catterpillar of the ^6th. table, I Fed the fpace of ' 
two Months, with Ground Jvy in Dutch Onderhave. 
Before it began to change, It purgeth it felfe, and chang- 
ed the 28th. Day of Jprill, and a very Beautifull But- 
terfly came forth the 2 6th. of May, Figured in the table, 
it had fo elegant a lufter , that it cou a not be Painted 
without Guilding, it bears two equally long Plumes upon 
the Head , it is wonderfully adorned about the Eyes , 
and Armed,under the Eyes appear two Teeth, it Lived 
Three Days without food. 
J underfland not what our Author, means by the two 
teeth under the Eyes of the Butterfly 5 this is a miftake 
I guejs : Butterflyes? indeed have a tongue, trunkt and 
hollow Pipe by which they Feed on Flowers; But I am 
The Catterpillar, of the s^yth.table : Is very curious and 
delicate inks Food, which are the leaves of the Cherry* 
tree. 
It changed the 6#^. of and the ic^th. of the fame 
Month came forth a Butterfly Figured in the tabk') of an 
unpleafant colour,and Beggar-like dreli, it lived not long^ 
Number. 4^. 
yet ignorant of their haveing Teethe 
Number. 47. 
G. P.i. 
tab, 61, 
fad and moving little. 
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