The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 331
shighasthe reft oftheitbodie is,yet if they thruft their head and necke once into any fhrub or bulli,and getit hidden,they thinke^he^i they are fafc ynoughjand that no man feeth them. Now two things they doe affoord, in re-Gompenceof mens painesthat they take in hunting and chafing them: to… … i7i r I W Plinies N^tur^li Hirtori6 A Chap, ii.^ 0/ thePhmiXi. THe birds of ^Ettiyopia and India^ are for the moft part of divcrfe colours, and fuch as i.man is hardly able to decipher and defcribcButthe Phoenix of Arabia pafleth all othersi, HowbeitJ cannot tell what to make of him: and firft of…
Pre-Linnean works · Natural history
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