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'bottom? os this covering, the womb growing white, is like a.

womans'privy parts. The male after copulation dyes; For by a

long continued use of venery, they spend all their radical moy-

state and spirits also. The females after they have brought forth

either by the violence of the pain, or multitude of their youngs "

whereby thsir strength is consumed, perish likewise; or as ^

Aristotle by little Lice which breed in their necks, and as

Pitty faith, strangle them, as Scaliger, cat into them and kill

them.

They stye over hrge Seas, continuing divers dayes togetherin their flight, and make such a noise with their wings, that theyseem co bee Fowls, and shadow the vei y Sun.

They insert /r^/y oftentimes out of Af rica, consuming all withtheir bitings, and with their black, sharp, and burning excre-ments, and with a sharp slaver, which they in eating set fall outof their mouths, yet are they not poyson, for both the Partbiantand Etbitpiant feed of them.

tViSickm assigns them a King, and a Monarchy, but Solemn p^, , ol _deniesit, faying, That they hove no King,, yet go they fortb all by T * ’ 7fbxniiy but though they bee fine Ttgt& ltge , yet have they »conspiring agreement to do mischief.

When they wasted Gaul 8 £2. they marched in the airetwenty miles a day in an ordered bitcel, and formed squadrons,and when they fell on the earth they had their camp; the Com-manders with a few went before the Army a dayes journy , as itwere. to finde out fit places to quarter in, and the very famehour that the fore-runners or harbingers came the day before,the whole Troups cam: the day after; before the rising of theSun they stirred not from the place where they fettled , but theSun being risen, they marched ,,or flew away in their orderlyRegiments.

Cufpiman observes the (ame, in the fameCouncty, in the year - ri , m874.but with this difference, that they matched then but four or pfive miles a day.

Of Locusts there are sometimes seen such monstrous swarms I.teo hist, ciiin Afrtca, that in flying they intercept the Sun beams like z Africa I.-,thick cloud. They devoure trees, leaves, fruits, and ail greenthings growing out of the earth*

At their departure they leave eggs behinde them, whereof

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