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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

into two parts which taile becommeth their hinder Legs wherefore the Aegyptians when they would describe a man that cannot moue himselfe and afterwardes recouereth his motion they decypher him by a frog hauing his hinder legges The heads of these young Gyrini which we call in English Horse-nailes because they resemble a Horse-naile in their similitude whose head is great and the other part small for with his taile he swimmeth After May they grow to haue feete and if before that time they bee taken out of the water they dye then they beginne to haue foure feete And first of all they are of a blacke colour and round and heereof came the Prouetbe Rana Gyrina sapientior wiser then a Horse-naile because through the roudndnesse and rolubility of his body it turneth it selfe with wonderfull celerity which way soeuer it pleaseth These young ones are also called by the Graecians Moluridae Brutichoi and Batrachida but the Latines haue no name for it except Ranunculus or Rana Nascens And it is to be remembred that one frogge layeth an innumerable company of Egges which cleaue together in the water in the middle whereof she her selfe lodgeth And thus much may suffice for the ordinary procreation of frogges by generation out of Egges In the next place I must also shew how they are likewise ingendered out of the dust of the earth by warme aestiue and Summer shevvers whose life is short and there is no vse of them Aelianus saith that as he trauailed out of Italy into Naples he saw diuers frogges by the way neere Putoli whose forepart and head did mooue and creepe but their hinder part was vnformed and like to the slyme of the earth which caused Ouid to write thus Semina limus habet virides generantia Ranas Et generat truncas pedibus eodem corpore saepe Altera pars viuit rudis est pars altera tellus That is to say Durt hath his seede ingendring Frogs full greene Yet so as feetlesse without Legs on earth they lye So as a wonder vnto Passengers is seene One part hath life the other earth full dead is nye And of these Frogs it is that Pliny was to be vnderstood when he saith that Frogs in the Winter time are resolued into slyme and in the Summer they recouer their life and substaunce againe It is certaine also that sometime it raineth frogs as may appeare by Philarchus and Lembus for Lembus writeth thus Once about Dardania and Paeonia it rained frogs in such plentifull measure or rather prodigious manner that all the houses and high-waies were filled with them and the inhabitants did first of all kill them but afterwards perceiuing no benifit thereby they shut their doores against them and stopped vp all their lights to exclude thē out of their houses leauing no passage open so much as a frog might creepe into and yet notwithstanding all this diligence their meat seething on the fire or set on the table could not be free from thē but continually they found frogs in it so as at last they were inforced to forsake that Countrey It was likewise reported that certaine Indians people of Arabia were inforced to forsake their countries through the multitude of frogs Cardan seemeth to find a reason in nature for this raining of frogges the which for the better satisfaction of the Reader I will here expresse as followeth Fiunt haec omnia ventorum ira and so forward in his 16. booke De subtilitate that is to say these prodigious raines of frogs and Mice little Fishes and stones and such like thinges is not to be wondered at for it commeth to passe by the rage of the winds in the tops of the Mountaines or the vppermost part of the Seas which many times taketh vp the dust of the earth congealeth them into stones in the ayre which afterwards fall downe in raine so also doth it take vp frogs and fishes who beeing aboue in theayre must needes fall downe againe Sometimes also it taketh vp the egges of frogs and fishes which beeing kept aloft in the ayre among the Whirle-windes and stormes of shewers doe there engender and bring forth young ones which afterwards fall downe vpon the earth there being no poole for them in the ayre These and such like reasons are approued among the learned for naturall causes of the prodigious raining of frogs But we read in holy Scripture among the plagues of Aegypt that frogges were sent by GOD to annoy them and therefore whatsoeuer is the materiall cause it is most certaine that the wrath of GOD and his almighty hand is the making or efficient cause and for the worthinesse of that deuine story how God maketh and taketh away frogs I will expresse it as it is left by the Holy-ghost in Cap. 8. Exod. verse 5. Also the Lord saide vnto Moses say thou vnto Aaron stretch out thy hand with thy rodde vpon the streames vpon the Riuers and vpon the ponds and cause frogs to come vpon the land of Egypt ver 6. Then Aaron stretched out his hand vpon the waters of Egypt and the frogs came vp couered the land of Egypt verse 7. And the Sorcerers did likewise with their Sorceries and brought frogs vp vpon the land of Aegypt Verse 8. Then Pharao called for Moses Aaron and said pray ye vnto the Lord that he may take away the frogs from mee and from my people and I will let the people goe that they may doe sacrifice to the Lord verse 9. And Moses saide vnto Pharao concerning me commaund when I shall pray for thee and thy seruants and for thy people to destroy the frogges from thee and from thy houses that they may remaine in the Riuer onely verse 10. Then he said tomorrow he answered be it as thou hast said that thou mayst know that there is none like the Lord our GOD. verse 11. So the frogges shall depart from thee and from thy houses from thy people and from thy Seruants onely they shall remaine in the Riuer verse 12. Then Moses Aaron went out from Pharao Moses cryed vnto the Lord concerning the frogs which he had sent vnto Pharao ver 13. And the Lord did according to the saying of Moses so the frogs dyed in the houses and in the Townes and in the fieldes ver 14. And they gathered them together by heapes and the land stanke of them c. And this was the second plague of Aegypt wherein the Lord turned all the fishes into Frogges as the booke of wisedome saith and the Frogs abounded in the Kinges chamber and notwithstanding this great iudgement of God for the present Pharao would not let the people goe and afterwardes that blind superstitious Nation became worshippers of Frogges as Philastrias writeth thinking by this deuotion or rather wickodnesse in this obseruant manner to pacifie the wrath of God choosing their owne wayes before the word of Almighty God But vain is that worship which is inuented without

bomboom tettigos enantion that is Scilicet obstrepita●s argutae vespa cicadit and this old said saw may well be applyed to those who being themselues vnlearned will not sticke to cry out exclaime and procure trouble to those that be more learned or to such as be weake feeble and impotent persons able to do nothing that will offerto contend with their betters and superiors with their brawling speeches and spitefull raylings And this latine prouerb carrieth the same sense Catulus leonem adlatrans If you will haue the gifts and ornaments of their minds described you must consider that a Waspe is a creature that liueth in companies together one with another subiect to a ciuill gouernment vnder one King or Ruler industrious mutuall friendes one to another ingenious crafty subtle quicke and cunning of a very quarrelsome nature and much subiect to anger and testinesse This is a good Argument of their ciuill and politicall manner of life in that they liue not solitarily in a desart or Wildernesse where no man keepeth but they build for themselues a Citty both excellent and admirable for the notable buildings and houses in it where they spend their time for the most part according to the mutable and neuer fayling lawes of Nature obseruing and keeping euer the Golden meane as well in their daily taskes as in their dispositions and affections of mind Besides they are gouerned with a kingly not with a tyrannicall gouernment as Aelianus saith although by nature they are great fighters eger bioysterous and vehemently tempestuous and he is led to say this because their Dukes or generals are stinglesse or rather hauing stings as their Subiects they will not vse the same to the hurt of their inferiors by thrusting it forth or striking in passion Now although they be twice so great and harder or rougher then the other Waspes yet are they not vnfurnished of the vertue of patience and clemency or gentle and debonaire behauiour by which meanes they keepe in order and containe in their lists as it were by gentle language their vnruly rout and mutinous companies There is no man but will confesse that this is an euident token and Argument of their mutuall loue and great good liking which they bear one to another for whosoeuer dare be so knack-hardy as to come neere there houses or dwelling places where they haue to do and to offer any violence or hurt to the same at the noyse of some one of them all the whole Swarme rusheth out being put into an amazed feare to help their fellow Cittizen and doe so busily bestirre themselues about the eares of their molesters as that they send them away packing with more then an ordinary pase and if we will credit Aelianus The Phaselites in times past were constrained to forsake their Citty for all their defence munition and Armour onely through the multitude and cruell fiercenesse of the Waspes wherewith they were anoyed Againe this manifestly prooueth that they want not a harty and fatherly affection because with more then heroycall courage and inuincible fury they set vpon all persons of what degree or quality soeuer that dare attempt to lye in wait to hurt or destroy theyr young breede no whit at all dreading Neoptolemus Pyrrhus Hector Achilles or Agamemnon himselfe the Captaine generall of all the whole Graecians if he were present Yea the Diuine Poet Homer in 12. Lib. of his Iliades when hee would expresse the haughty and generous spirits of the Greekish Chiefetaines hee likeneth them to Waspes in these wordes Spekessin ajolois cradien kai Thumon echousaris that is hauing the harts and stomacks of Waspes when they are to fight for their priuate dwellings their deare Progeny of-spring The loue that Bees carry to their issue is great but it canot be greater then that of waspes neither can they haue a greater promptitude alacrity or desire to defend their young ones if they be any way offended by passengers Which thing Homer in his Iliads lib. 12. insinuateth by the example of the chasing God Iupiter who took it marueylous angry and much repined at the sturdy stomackes of the Graecians adding that the Greeks did defend themselues as valiantly and endured the shock and assault of their enimies as euer Waspes of Bees would in defence of their children or issue in these verses following Non enim ego putaui heroas Achiues Sustentaturos nostrum robur manus inuictas Illi autem quasi vespae acres atque apes Quae nidos faciunt ad viam puluerulentam Neque deserunt cauam domum sed expectantes Viros venatores pugnant pro filijs That is to say I did not thinke our noble Graetian Lords could beare Our force and with vnconquered hands maintaine Our right but they like Waspes and Bees deuoyde of feare Which by high-wayes their houses vse to frame Doe not for sake their hollow dusty homes What ●re they be that come to hunt them out Fighting with valour not fearefully like Drones To rid their young ones both from death and doubt Besides this they further builde for them very large dwellings with Chambers and floores in a round and orbicular forme with roomes one aboue another finely and wittily compacted so that there is space enough of ingresse and regresse and very defensible against all windes and weather and yet their nests or houses are not all made after one fashion but very different some of them representing a Harpe some made much after the fashion of a Peare a Toadestole a Bottle or budget of Leather and some like a standing cuppe with handles Some affirme that the matter of theyr Combes is confused rude and ●…fauouredlie heaped vppe full of barke and sand but I could neuer as yet see it otherwise then light slender and thinne like paper dry transparent gummy and thinne as though it vvere thinne leaues of gold shaken very easily hither and thither with the wind and rising many times from the foote or foundation very small and broade aboue like vnto a top The place of this their building is thought to be diuers and much different for some respects For if they haue lost theyr Duke or principall Leader then doe they make them nestes of clay in the high holes of walls and hollow Trees and as some say although hetherto I ould neuer see it they make vvaxe there also But in case they haue a Generall or Duke then they make their nestes vnder the earth their Cells or Chambers beeing formed with sixe angles or corners much like vnto Bees They make theyr Combes ●ound much after the fashion of a broade Toadestoole from whose centers there goeth forth as it were a short stalke or tying by which the Combe eleaueth and is fastened hard to th earth or some Tree or peraduenture to some other Combe They haue such a tender care ouer their females especially at such time as they are great with young and suffer them so much to haue their owne wills as

doe liue in more hazard lye open to diuers iniuries and so more subiect to shortnes of life The brouity of their life is after a sort recompenced and some part of amends made by the rare clammy glewishnes of the same for if you seperate their bulkes from the head the head from the breast they will liue a long while after and thrust out their sting almost as strongly as if they were vndeuidable and free from hurt and deathes harme Apollonius calleth waspes Omoboroi and Aristotle Meloboroi although they doe not onely feede on rawe flesh but also on peares plummes grapes reysins and on diuers and sundry sorts of flowers and fruites of the iuyce of Elmes Suger Hony and in a manner of all things that are seasoned tempered made pleasant or prepared with eyther of these two last rehearsed Pliny in his 11. booke capit 53. is of opinion that some waspes especially those of the wilder feller kind do eate the flesh of Serpents which is the cause that death hath some-times ensued of their poysonous stinging They also hunt after great flyes not one vvhit sparing the harmelesse Bees who by their good deedes haue so well deserued According to the nature of the soyle place they do much differ in their outward forme fashion of their body and in the manner of their qualities and dispositions of their mind for the common waspes beeing acquainted familiarly vsed to the company of men beasts are the gentler but the Hermites and solitary waspes are more rude churlish and tempestuous yea Nicander termeth them Olaus that is pernicious They are also more vnhappy dangerous and deadly in very hote countries as Ouidius reporteth and namelie in the West-Indies where both in their magnitude and figure there is great difference betwixt theirs and ours so that they are accounted farre more poysonous deadly then either the English French Spanish or Barbarian waspes Some of these dangerous generation doe also abound in exceeding cold Countries as Olaus Magnus in his 22. booke telleth vs. Their vse is great and singuler for besides that they serue for foode to those kinde of Hawkes which are called Kaistrells or Fleingalls Martinets Swallowes Owles to Brocks or Badgers and to the Cameleon they also doe great pleasure and seruice to men sundry wayes for they kill the Phalangium which is a kind of venomous Spyder that hath in all his legges three knots or ioynts whose poyson is perilous and deadly and yet waspes do cure their wounds Raynard the Foxe likewise who is so full of his wiles and craftie shifting is reported to lye in waite to betray waspes after this sort The wilie thiefe thrusteth his bushie tayle into the waspes nest there holding it so long vntill hee perceiue it be full of them then drawing it slylie forth he beateth and smyteth his tayle-full of waspes against the next stone or tree neuer resting so long as hee seeth any of them aliue and thus playing his Foxe-like parts many times together at last hee setteth vppon their combes deuouring all that he can find Pliny greatly commendeth the solitary wasp to be very effectuall against a Quartaine-Ague if you catch her with your left hand tyeor fasten her to any part of your body alwayes prouided that it must be the first waspe that you lay hold on that yeere Mizaldus memor Cent. 7. attributeth great vertue to the distilled water and likewise to the decoction of common waspes affirming expresly that if any part be there-with annoynted it straightwayes causeth it to swell monsterously and to be puffed vp that you would imagine them to be sicke of a Dropsie and this course craftie-drabbes queanes vse to perswade their sweet harts that they are forsooth with child by them thus many times beguiling and blinding the eyes of vvarie and expert Midwiues Wherevpon we may very confidently conclude that their poyson is very hote flatuous or windie Some do prole after waspes and kill them by other sleights deuises For when the Labourers do much vse and frequent elmes which they doe very often about the Summer solftice to gather from them some gummy and clammy matter their Dukes and Princes beeing at home not standing still but setling themselues to their busines or trade and helping to hatch vp their young they are suddenly choked with the fume of Brimstone Garlicke the branches of Coleworts or other pot-herbes or els by breaking downe onerthrowing their combes they die through famine VVhen you are minded to defend the Bees from the inuasion and spoyle of waspes you must sette a potte with some peeces of flesh in it neere the Hiue and when the waspes in hope of some prey are entered suddenly clappe ouer the couer and so destroy them or else by pouring in some hot water at the toppe you may scald them all to death in the pot In like sort some doe gently breath vppon Raisins fruites Suger Hony Oyle by which eyther the waspes are chased away or by tasting the oyle doe die And againe some doe mixe corrosiues with Honie as for example Sublimate Vitrioll Auripigmentum c. that they by taking this venomous or poyson-infected drinke may suffer condigne punishment for their intemperate and insatiable gluttony Of the stinging of vvaspes there doe proceede diuers and sundry accidents passions and effects as payne disquieting vexation swelling rednesse heate sweatings disposition or will to vomit loathing and abhorring of all thinges exceeding thirstinesse now and then fainting or swounding especially when after the maner of venomous creatures they haue infected their stings eyther by tasting the flesh of some Serpents or by gathering their foode from venomous plants I will nowe sette before your eyes and eares one late and memorable example of the danger that is in VVaspes of one Allens vvife dwelling not manie yeeres since at Lowick in Northamptonshire vvhich poore woman resorting after her vsuall manner in the heate of the Sommer to Drayton the Lord Mordants house beeing extreamely thirstie and impatient of delay finding by chaunce a blacke Iacke or Tankerd on the table in the Hall she very inconsiderately and rashly sette it to her mouth neuer suspecting or looking what might be in it and suddainly a Waspe in her greedinesse passed downe with the drinke and stinging her there immediatly came a grea●tumour in her throate with a rednes puffing and swelling of all the parts adiacent so that her breath beeing intercepted the miserable vvretch whirling herselfe twise or thrise round as though shee had had some vertiginie in her braine presently fell downe and dyed And this is knowne for a truth not onely to me but to most of the inhabitants there abouts being as yet fresh in their memories and therefore their authorities as I take it is vnreproueable Now for feare least I should loose my selfe in this troublesome and vast Ocean of Natures admirable fabricature I wil now discourse of such medicinall meanes as will defend