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it they either difperfe them at the fame time, 
or, if they fwallow them, they are returned 
with intereft; for they always come out un- 
hurt. It is no't therefore furprifing, that if a 
field be manured with recent mud or dung not 
quite rotten, various other plants, injurious to 
the farmer^ fhould come up along with the 
grain, that is fowed. Many have believed that 
barley , or rye has been changed into oats , al~ 
tho* all fuch kinds of metamorphofes are re- 
pugnant to the laws of generation, not confi- 
dering that there is' another caufe of this phe- 
nomenon, viz. that the ground perhaps has 
been manured with horfe-dung, in which the 
feeds of oats , coming entire from the horfe, 
lye hid and produce that grain. The mijletoe 
always grows upon other trees, becaufe the 
thrufh that eats the feeds of it, cafts them 
forth with its' dung, arid as bird-catchers 
make their bird-lime of this fame plant, and 
daub the branches of trees with it, in order 
to catch the thrufh, the proverb hence took its 
rife ; 
The thrufh, when he befouls the bough. 
Sows for himfelf the feeds of woe. 
It is not to be doubted, but that the greatefl 
part of the junipers alfo, that fill our woods, 
F are 
