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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13821	The historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of liuing creatures wherein is contained their diuine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their liuely figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their seuerall poysons and antidotes; their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction. Necessary and profitable to all sorts of men: collected out of diuine scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and ænigmaticall obseruations. By Edvvard Topsell.	Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?	1608 (1608)	STC 24124; ESTC S122051	444,728	331

Grauius Caronnus to Sir Horatio Pallaut●ino Maiolus to Heberus or any other that euer writ of Serpents or venomous Beasts that doe I heere dedicate to you as the euerlasting pledge of my loue honour and seruice vnto you Which I shall entreate you to entertaine and accept while it may honour you because it hath Gods worke for a subiect and refuse it not when it shall any way ecclipse or dazle your light with Prince or people And for my selfe let me be bold to conclude with this my vnfayned protestation Sum tuus sine fine tuus Decane Manebo Cum socijs quorum sine felle candida nosti Pectora sic in te sibi constatura deinceps De te nil dubite si tu tamen ambigis istas En desiderij pignus pius aspice chartas Edw Topsell To the Reader GEntle and pious Reader although it be needlesse for mee to write any more of the publishing of this Treatise of Venemous beasts yet for your better satisfaction and direction briefly take this which followeth After the publishing of the former booke of Foure-footed Beasts I vnderstood of two thinges much misliked therin wherein I also my selfe receiued a iust offence First the manifolde escapes in the presse which turned and sometimes ouerturned the sence in many places especially in the Latine which fault as it may in parte concerne me so yet it toucheth another more deepely yet are both of vs excusable He in wanting the true knowledge of the Latine tongue and I bicause of my employment in my pastorall charge and both of vs together because we were not so thorowly estated as to maintaine a sufficient Scholler to attend only vpon the presse Wherefore in this second Booke we haue remooued away that blot and vsed a more accurate dilligence and I trust there is no escape committed peruerting the sence and not very many altring the letters The second exception taken against the former Treatise was the not englishing or translating of the Latine verses which thing I purposed to haue done if I had not beene ouerhastened in the businesse for it had beene to the worke an ornament and to the History a more ample declaration This faulte I haue now amended in the setting forth of this second Booke of Liuing Creatures Al therefore that can be saide for your direction I could wish the Historye more compleat for the manifestation of the most blessed Trinities glory whose works are here declared and for the better reuelation of the seuerall natures of euery Serpent I may fayle in the expressing of some particular yet I suppose that I haue omitted no one thing in their Narration which might bee warranted by good authority or experience And therfore although I cannot say that I haue saide all that can be written of these liuing Creatures yet I dare say I haue wrote more then euer was before me written in any language Now therefore Aske the Creatures after God and they will tell you For sayth S. Austen Interrogatio creaturarum profunda est consideratio ipsarum responsio earum attesta ipsarum de Deo quoniam omnia clamant Deus nos fecit The askeing of the Creatures is a deepe and profounde consideration of theyr seuerall natures theyr answere is their attestation or testimony of God because all of them cry out The Lord hath made vs. Wherefore seeing it is most true incognita non desiderantur things vnknowne are not desired to the intent that all true English Christians may hereafter more affectionately long after and desire both the mysticall vision of God in this world and also his perfect sight in the worlde to come I haue for my part out of that weake ability wherwith I am endued made knowne vnto them in their owne mother tongue the wonderfull workes of God for the admiring of Gods praise in the Creatures standeth not in a confused ignorance not knowing the beginnings and reason of euery thinge but rather in a curious and artificiall inuestigation of their greatest secrets Therefore let all liuing men consider euery part of diuine wisedome in all his workes for if it be high he therby terrifieth the proud by the truth he feedeth the great ones by his affability he nourisheth the little ones and so I will conclude my preface with the wordes of the three Children O all ye workes of the Lorde praise him and magnifie him for euer EDVVARD TOPSELL A Table of the seuerall Serpents as they are rehearsed and described in this Treatise following A ADder 50 Ammodyte 53 Arge Argolae 54 Aspe 54 B Bee 64 Bee-Drone 78 Bee-waspe 83 Bee-Hornet 92 Boas 111 C Cantarides 96 Cankers 102 Caterpillers 102 Chamaeleon 113 Cockatrice 119 Cordyll 126 Crocadill 126 Crocadile of Egypt 140 Crocodile of Bresilia 141 Crocadile of the earth called a Scinke 141 D Darte 145 Dipsas 147 Doublehead 151 Dragon 153 Dragon winged 158 Dryine 174 E Elephants 176 Elops Elopis 176 F Frogges 176 Greene Frogge 185 Crooked Frog or Paddock 186 Toades 187 G Greene serpent 194 H Haemorrhe 193 Horned serpent 198 Hydra 201 Hyaena 200 I Innocent Serpents 203 L Lizard 203 Lizard greene 209 Locust vide Caterpiller M Molure 203 Myllet or Cencryne 211 Myagrus 203 N Neute or Water Lyzard 212 P Pagerina 203 Pareas 203 Palmer-worme vide caterpiller Pelias 214 Porphyre 214 Prester 214 Python vide Dragon R Red Serpent 216 S Salamander 217 Scorpion 222 Scytall 232 Sea-serpents 233 Seps or Sepedon 236 Slow-worme 293 Snake 240 Spiders 246 259 Stellion 276 T Tyre 280 Torteyse 281 285 287 V Viper 290 W Wormes 306 A Generall Treatise of Serpents DIUINE MORALL AND NATURALL Of the Creation and first beginning of SERPENTES THere is no Man that can iustly take exception that this History of Serpents beginneth at theyr Creation for seeing our purpose is to set forth the workes of GOD by which as by a cleere glasse he endeuoureth to disperse and distribute the knowledge of his Maiesty Omnipotencie Wisedome and Goodnesse to the whole race of Man-kinde it seemeth most proper that the first stone of this building laid in the foundation be fetched from the Creation and the rather because some Naturalists especially amongst the auncient Heathen haue taken the Originall of these venemous Beasts to be of the earth without all respect of Diuine and Primary Creation And hereunto some Hereticks as the Manichees and Marciontes haue also subscribed though not directly for they account the Creation of these venemous all hurtfull beasts an vnworthy worke for the good GOD because they could neuer see any good vse of such creatures in the World Yet we know the blessed Trinity created the whole frame of this visible World by it selfe and for good reasonable and necessarie causes framed both the beneficiall hurtfull Creatures eyther for a Physicall or metaphysicall ende Therfore it is most certaine that if we consider the outward parts of these Creatures endued with life no man nor nature could begin