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the hinder part of whole Body, an humour is wont to 
diftill , which thele Creatures vehemently covert j as 
Fifties Water, and greedily ftp up. 
And when thefe Flyes know, that theft little crea- 
tures are bred , a future meat for their Young ones ; 
they do injeft their Seed upon the leaves. 
Theft little Creaturs have fix Feet, and long Winges> 
yet I never found them to fly j bnt are a food to theft 
Wormt. 
Theft Worms know how to Counterfeit dead, and 
to lie amongft them , for that the innocent little Crea- 
tures creep over the Bodies ofthe Worms ; which when 
the Worms feel, they take them with their (harp billsi, 
and ftck themj lifting up their Frobojlis like Hens a 
when they drinke. 
Theft Worms feed of thefe little Creatures? and the 
Birds- feed ofthe Flyes, they are changed imo, and we 
of the Birds. 
As foon as thefe little Creatures perceive the Worms, , 
forthwith they fly them? and run away. 
When this Worm has fed to uts fullnelTe for twenty 
four hours it is wont to reft and fleep, from Eight 
ith Morning till Nine the next Day, and when he a- 
gain feels theft lirtle Creatures to run about him, he 
Eats as much of them as he has a mind, and now full 
again, it refts, and feems as Dead. 
And the i2th. of June^ this Worm affixed to a leaf 
did compoft it ftlf for change^ as is Depifted. 
But the of July, a Fly was Borne? which as 
foon as come forth, in halfe a quarter of an hour be» 
came as big again, and lived four Days without Food* 
The/e Little Creatures are a numerem Brood of Cimices* 
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