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Spoft herbs is produced a green winged creamy, in shape verylike the little Grafhopper, it leaps, and after Ayes. Wee use tosal! the frothy matter wherein they are bred Wood-sear, that isthe corrujxion of the woods; I know not the reason of thename; others call it Cuckow-fpittle.

In Ntmey it often rainss a little four footed beast, as great as.a Rat,of various coloured hair* which feeds of all green thingslike Grashoppers. When their food fails they dye, andtheairebeing corrupted with their stench, caufeth to the inhabitantsMegrims , and the Kings-evtll. They call it Lemmer ; thischough not properly a Grastiopper >t yet like them very de-structive^

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A Grastiopper hath two very moveaWe hows, as long as the-whole body,on either fide ef the jawes two short ones; it hathtwo broad lips shutting flat on the other, and two lesser that strutfide-wayes* all which together close the mouth, and the head,,with the lips closed , somewhat resembles a horses head.. Ithath two round prominent eyes; Nrgidim denied that theysow at al?>as Pliny records, when as they have clear and glaflieeyes,yet covered with a homy tunidefthe eyes are not move able)there is a visible PnpiBa y six seer, the hindmost as great, and as.long again as the sormost to leap withaH, and raise it self up ,with two joynts in every one, near their setting on to the breast,these two are very near one to the other. They have also a joyntin the middle, the upper part as the thigh greater at the top,.,and smaller downwards, and smooche. The lower part* (whichate their 1« gges) rough and scabrous, and several pliable joyntsin the feet, and as it were visible tots, which ate rough and dew-clawed. A long ^nooth taile more than half the length of thebody, fharp-pointed, and two short little cants, or pricks grow-ing near the end of the tail, pointing towards the extremity of it.

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