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          OF THE FOURF(
hold their mouths clofe Ihut, you muft force
them open. Caft them into falt, they wagge
the tayl, and dy. Beat them long, they live.
The skinne fo hard, a fword canunot pierce it.
Out of the wounds comes milky matter. Pro-
voke them, they fwell, and ftart upright, and
pour out poyfonous fweat, and look wiftly on
the provoker. If a Sow eat one, Iliec dies.
                CHAPTER IV.
                    Of the St:/iio.
Ambio          His goes for a Lizard, called Stellio
NLac.im.       from- his fiarry marks; and in Greeke
ijxgAS r        4"' /lalo! ac, or KoolkbataL, from the
A9'-           foft, and filent glate, and creeping
¢787A.  through walls; and Galeotes, becaufe Weefcl-
z0Ae^-  like, it is ever climbing fofily ; there are divers
        kinds of them.  'That of the Greeks called
rencc.  Colotes, and Afcalabotes, it is full of fpots,and
Plin-1-29- hath a harfli voyce, and feeds on every thing.
       Thatof Italy, refembling Chamllalcou, living
       on dew, and Spidcrs, and is faid to be veno-
       mous, as the other harmles.  Hether referre
       the little white beans like fmuall Lizards , of a
       bright, and brittle-body, about Roome, called
Gefner. Tarantulaef; but the finall Lizard is filver-
Areay.  coloured, called Liakoni. In Gazara was feen
Bellon.  a black Stellio,as big as a Weefel,great-lhcaded,
       and big-bellied. We give below a Print of the
       fatnhioli, and Facetan Lizard.  There are
       none in Germany, France, nor England, but
       in Thrace, Sicily, and Syria, and thofe more
Place.  deadly then they of Italy.  They keep in
Plin.  chinks of doors, and windows, and chininyes.
       That that is foe to the Scorpion, is not in Italy
       bred. There are eno0mous ones. In winter
Arift.  they ly hid, and eat not. Like filakes they
H. A.  grow young agrain, they help the falling-fick-
1.8. C. z9. nele; they ly in wait for Spiders, and Blees,and
Natucr. hunt them, and Scorpions: they feldoine bite,
C.3I.  having bent teeth , which they leave in a
       woun(l; their bite benums, but feldomc kills.
       The flefh plucks fplinters out mans body, it
Ufe in  cures its own bite, and putrified in oyl, cures
Phifick. the Scorpions bite. In Quartans, fome layd
       it in a box under the patients head, to prevent
Plin,  the fit.The afhes held in the left hand,provoke,
       in the right, fubdue luft.  The parts make
       fleepy, and benum ; the liver-poundt cafes
       tooth-ach, fprinkled on.  The dung takes
       away warts, the older the better againft epi-
       lepfy: drowned in wine, the wine drunke,
       breeds fpots, or freckles on the face: the gall
       diffolved in water, gathers Weefels.
                 CHAP TER V.
        Of tbe Scincus, or Land-Crocodile.
Arnbr.         He Scincus, fo called perhaps from
Dig.           Tinfa in theArabique, is alfo called
               the land, or lefler Crocodile, either for
               being like, or for dreading Saifran. It
Nane,. is of the bignes of a green Lizard, or the Sala-
S r-T 7r Tn T2 Y- A -  ,   -
J U   I   LL   D    L E b I   .         1*  f
mander, fourefooted, a thumb thick, and not D;o~ceo.
above a quarter long, the tayl round,and fealy; Belon
the fcales finiall on the body, many,and clayflhi
coloured; the head long, little thicker then the
neck, the belly as it were winged, the tayl
round, as of the Lizird, but lhorter, and
crooked at the end ; a ftreak from head to tayl.
Gefher faw one with five toes and nails, a
thlumb and half broad, two palms long; and
another fix palms long, at Conrfantinople.
They are bred onely in Arabia about Mecha, Place
and are brought thence to Alexandria, and
Venice.  They live on fweet flowers, there-
fore no wonder their dung fents fo, on dry Foa. .
ground they lay egges, and bury them. The
fleflh is a great antidote. Rhafis ufes to hang
the young on thofe, that are frighlted in their
fleep. Pulverid, it makes lultfull; the fame flell
helps the falling ficknes in India, and makes
fat: The heart in black Sheep-wool, of a Lamb
firit yeancd , being worn, is thought to chafe Plin-
awxvy quartan-agues.  The gall with hony, is
cried up againit bloodflot-eyes: the reini in-
creafe feed; the blood with borax, fmeard on
the face, removes freckles; the fat helps rein-
pain: the allhes of the skin, fome fprinkle on
parts to be cut off, to make them leffe fen
I f~le. RIgineta of the tayl, make his oyotment
Entaticon: out of the bowells is a perfume
made agaitnft ftopping of the matrix: the duing
is antiepileptick, and clears the eyes, the beft is
the white, and mouldring, that foon melts in pij,,
water: whores ufc it, to keep their faces fleek,
and unwrinkled, as you bruife it, it fiells like
old liven. Of old it was fophifticated with
dung of ftares, fed with rice. The Indian, Diffi-
and Arabian, are the biggoel. In lndia is bred rences.
a beaft like it, as ,reat as a Malta Dog, with f
a rough fcaly skin, called by the Indians Pha-
tagen, happily it is the Candiverbera, or fmite-
tayl. In Cyprus is a LUzard , everyway re-
fembling the Scincus. in the Lake of Vli-
ceoza is a divers fort, a kind of Salamander,
The Scintuj R hafis, hath a tayl not round, but
flat, or fquat about the fides.
        CHAPTER VI.
 Oj t, C Foure-footed ordjluls) am1
             o~ter Ltyz~rds.
TT is like the fiih Cordylus, called by fomrn
* Latermen, the land- Crotodile; and the Can- A1broCir.
J  diverbera, becaufe it is ever whisking, and
   clapping with the tayl, which is like a
knotted club, and beats all that come near him.
Some fay, he liath gils; but there hangs one in Bellon.
a publique library, with onely two holes by
the corners of the mouth. it is like a Croco-
dile, but leffe, and moves the under-jaw; head-
ed, and mouthed like a Tortoyfe, the neck
Ihort, and fwelling below: each foot hath five
toes, the body fcaly, skin hard , like a fnakes
flough, tayl round, with fcaly ringlets inex.
preflible; the fcales are hard as bones , and
fourefquare, hollowed a litle, to make the tayl
                      0           round 3