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THe Scorpion is a Serpent of the earth, stinging deadly with his taile and of some is called flatering worme, for faire face shewed and friendly countenaunce. But if any man come neare hir behinde she payéth him home. Plinie sayth that it bringeth forth yong some∣time seauen at once, whereof, the Dam eateth vp fiue of them, but ye other the wisest of them, get about their Mothers backe and buttocks,
and so bite hir. This kind sleaeth his parents, and hath onelye care to reuenge their Bro∣thers quarrell: and in that point Nature well prouided that their should be no great multi∣plying in so perilous a stocke and kind. Orion when as he had made that boast that the earth shoulde bring forth no suche Monster but he would kill it: the earth it selfe cast vp such a Scorpiō as slue him in the presence of the peo∣ple with most sharpe sting.