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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 946

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ures. their Gods. Of this Italian Mantis (wh ofe figure we do here reprefent) Rondeletius makes men-tion in his book de Pifcibusy in thefe words : It hath a long breaft, [lender, covered with a hood, thehead plain, the eyes bloudy, of a fufficient bigntfe, the cornicleJhort, it hath fix feet like… … So divine a creature is this efteemed, that if a childe aske the way to fuch a place, (he willftretch out one of her feet, and fhew him the right way, and feldome or never miffe. Her tailis two forked, armed with two briftly prickles : and as fhe refembleth thofe Diviners in theelevation of her…

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