Of the Ant or Emote.
THe Ant is called in Latine Formica, quasi micas ferens, carying hir meate by crummes into hir Lodge. Solinus sayth, that they be but of small bignesse, but of great dis∣cipline or skill in prouision for them & theirs.
A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.
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- A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.
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- Maplet, John, d. 1592.
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- [1567 (3 June)]
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"A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06860.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Plinie in his .ix. Booke and .xxxj. chapter, saith, that they are all busied alike, and be about the like businesse dailie, and by companies hunt a∣bout to finde victualles. They haue amongst them a Publicke weale, euerie one for his po∣wer tendring & maintaining it. Their sorest labour is, when the Moone is at ye full, and rest then when as the Moone is at the chaunge. A∣ristotle in his 8. Booke de animalibus sayth, that they haue a very perfite sense of smelling, hating all strong and noysome smelles, as suffumigation of Brimstone, or Harts horne being beaten to pouder. Plinie saith in his. S. booke, that when the Beare sickneth or feeleth hir selfe not well at ease, that then she scrapeth in the earth with hir Pawes entending to find of these, which being found and presently eatē of hir, she recouereth hir selfe and is well.