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My dunckt dat hy goet is. 
Maeckt alle good chiere Ick bids u. 
Hoe veel hevet u ghecoft? 
é German. 
Er hat nicht zu eflen. 
Gebt mir fie her. 
Macht hie raum. 
Mich dinckt das er gut fey. 
Seydt alle frolich ich bitte euch: 
Wie veel hat es euch gekoftet ? 
A Letter, taken from the eight chapter 
of the firft part, may perhaps ‘exbibit the 
fimilarity in a ftronger point of view. 
7D Englifh. 
Peter, my good friend, after all recom- 
mendations, know that I an: very evil content 
with you, becaufe you would not fend me 
your book. I can not think how I have de- 
ferved that towards you: now perceive I 
wel that you will doo very little for me, 
when you deny mee fo {mall a matter. 
Your wordes and thoghtes do not agree well 
one with another: if you had defired mee 
of thinges of much greater importance, I 
would net have refufed you; It is moft 
true that men commonly fay: One ought 
alwayes to prove his friendes before hee 
have need of them; for to prove them in 
neceflitie, that were too late. ‘Therefore it 
is enough for me to have proved you. 
Flemifh. 
Peeter myn goede vrient, naer alle ghehie- 
deniffen, weet dat ick ben feer qualyck te 
vreden op u, om die fake dat ghy my 
niet en hebt willen leenen uwen boeck. 
Ick en kan niet peynfen hoe ickt t’uwaerts 
verdient hebbe: nu mercke Ick wel, 
ghy foudt doen feer luttel voor my, als ghy 
my ontfeght foo kleynen duick. 
Divgorden ende ghedachten en ghelycken 
niet wel d’een den anderen: dat ghy my ver- 
focht haddet van dinghen van veel meerder 
importancien, ick en foudefe u niet ghewey- 
gert hebben. Het is wel waer dat men ge- 
meyniyc feyt: Men hehocrt altoos fyn 
vrienden te proeven eer dat men fe behoeft : 
want die te proeven in-den noot, dat waer 
te fpade: Daerom het is my ghenoech ‘u 
beproeft te hebben. 
German. 
Mein guter freund Peter, ich wunfch euch 
alles guts : wiflet das ich nit wol zu frieden 
bin mit euch, das jhr abgefchlagen habt mir 
zu leyhen ewer buch. Fiirwar ich kan nit 
gedencken wie ich {clches umb euch verdient 
hab: jetzt aber merck ich was jhr, von 
meinent wegen thun wiirdet, dieweil jbr 
mihr verfagt habt fo ein klein ding. - Euwer 
wort vnd gemuth bedtincken mich nicht 
zufammen itimmen: fo jhr begert hettet 
von mir fachen daran viel mehr gelegen wer, 
ich wolts euch nicht verfagt haven. Aber es 
ift wahr wie dars gemein fprichwort ift ; 
Man fol probieren einen: freundt, eche 
man fyn bedarfi: .denn in der noth pro- 
Obfervations on the Natural Hyffory of Leeches. 
dat. 
[May 1, 
bieren, ist zu fpath: Es ift mir aver genug 
dafs ich euch probiert hab. 
The fame paflagées in the Spanih, 
Portuguefe and other tongues afford fi- 
milar opportunities fer comparifon. 
ane 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
OBSERVATIONS on the NATURAL HISTORY 
of LERCHES.: )%) ; . 
HE hiftory of thefe- animals is ren- 
dered interefting from their well 
known ufe in furgery. “One f{pecies, the 
Medicinal leeches, (hirudo medicinals of 
Linneus) are employed tor the purpofe 
of extracting blood from various parts of 
the human body, where the lancet would 
be of no avail; and trom dome parts, as 
the gums, to which even cupping-glaffes 
could not pofiibly be applied... They are 
in fuch requeft in fome diftriéts of Eng- 
land, that the poor people derive a great 
part of their fubfiftence from colleéting 
them for fale ; and fome plans have been 
projected of making ponds for the purpofe 
of breeding them. Suck ponds, uf in 
good fituations, and properly managed, 
would, no doubt, prove extremely lucra- 
tive to the owners. 
The body of all the fpecies of leeches, 
when extended, is lung and flender, but it 
is capable of very confiderable dilatation 
and contraction. It is compofed of a 
great number of annules, or to fpeak 
more correctly, of circular mufcles, which 
are the principal organs of motion. The 
furface of the tkin, in the different {pecies, 
is more or lefs rough with minute tuber- 
cles. To the touch, however, thefe tu- 
bercles are earns fenfible, from the 
circumiftance of their being always {meared 
with a vifcous fluid indiffoluble in water, 
which tranfudes from’them. By means of 
this fluid, the progrefs of the animals, in 
{wimming, as well as in patiig through 
mud, or amongft the carices, reeds, and 
other aquatic plants, (about the roots and 
leaves of which they are chiefly to be 
found,) is greatly facilitated. 
The head of thefe animals, in a ftate | 
of dilatation, is confiderably lefs pointed 
than their pofterior extremity. They 
have the power of attaching, themfelves 
to any hard fubftance, both by their head — 
and tail; butit is difficult to comprehend 
by what precife means this 1s effected. 
All we know 1s, that they form a conca- 
vity beneath each of thefe extremities ; 
by which, in the manner of a cupping- 
glafs, they adhere fo firmly, that in fome 
inflances their body has been torn afun- 
der, in attempting to detach them. The 
ftructure 
