u (ECONOMY 
the egg, in which is contained the rudiment 
of the foetus may be fecundated ^ for with- 
out fecundation all eggs are unfit to produce 
an offspring. 
Foxes and wolves , ftruck with thefe flings, 
every where howl in the woods ; crowds of 
dogs follow the female ; lulls fliew a terrible 
countenance, and very different from that of 
oxen* Stags every year have new horns, which 
they lofe after rutting time. Birds look more. 
beautifull than ordinary, and warble all day 
long through lafcivioufnefs. Thus j mall birds 
labour to outfing one another, and cocks to 
outcrow. Peacocks fpread forth again their 
gay, and glorious trains. Fijhes gather to- 
gether, and exult in the water ; and grajhop- 
pers chirp, and pipe as it were, amongfl the 
herbs. The ants gather again into colonies, 
and repair to their citadels z . I pafs over many 
other particulars, which this fubjedt affords, to 
avoid prolixity, 
* See this fubjeft treated with great fpirit in Thorn* 
Ton’s Spring and in Virgil’s Georgies. 
§. 12 * 
