The history of four-footed beasts and serpents. (1658)
Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?, Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604, Rowland, John, M.D · London, Printed by E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge [etc.] · leaf 1000
e colour: for all the in-cihons are painted with various colours one from ano-ther, yet mingled one with another, which a fiher(hid doth adorn feverally one by one. The tenth is amongft the fports of Wanton nature,not lefs elegant than it is rare, being (freaked withblack, green, blew, yellow… … Of leffer livingCreatures. 1037 Suppofe the white incifions of the eleventh to be green asLeeks, and paint the skin and hairs half green. The Nut-tree Catterpillar is of a bale green, except threeblack fpots between the joynts, and that horn at the end of theback, and growing as it were on the…
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