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Pseudodoxia epidemica : or, enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths (1658)

Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682, Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682. Hydriotaphia urne-burniall, Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682. Garden of Cyrus · London : printed for Edward Dod, and are to be sould by Andrew Crook · leaf 288

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THE FIFTH BOOK 285 Of many things queflionableas they an commonly dejcrthed in TtUures. … Chap. I.Of the Ti^nre of the Pekcan. Nd fifft in every place we meet with the pifturc of thePelican, opening hcrbreaft with her billjand feedingher young ones with the blood diftilling from her.Thus is it fet forth not onely in common iigns, but inthcCreltand Schucheon of many Noble families;bath…

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