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 976
uel enemy, do no lefs make havock of and devour this creature of fomean a rank, than our lordly Storks ufe to do the peafant Frogs: yetasfoonas it gets an oppor-tunity, it returneth like for like, and fufficiently punifheth that fpoiler. For it flyeth up nimbly in-to her neft with its fellow… … ling,and being broken, the young ones while they are yet unfhapen, being dafht miferably againftthe ftones, are deprived of life, before they have any fenfe of it. Neither do I fee indeed howfhe fhould more torment the Eagle than in her young ones. For fome who flight the greateRtorments of their…
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