The silkewormes, and their flies: liuely described in verse, by T.M. a countrie farmar, and an apprentice in physicke. For the great benefit and enriching of England
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The silkewormes, and their flies: liuely described in verse, by T.M. a countrie farmar, and an apprentice in physicke. For the great benefit and enriching of England
Author
Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.
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Printed at London :: By V[alentine] S[immes] for Nicholas Ling, and are to be sold at his shop at the west ende of Paules,
1599.
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Subject terms
Silkworms -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
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"The silkewormes, and their flies: liuely described in verse, by T.M. a countrie farmar, and an apprentice in physicke. For the great benefit and enriching of England." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07602.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2024.
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The Table.
1 WHen garments were first vsed. Fol. 2
2 Whereof garments were first made. 3
3 Diuers opinions how and when silke was first inuented
and worne. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20.
4 Whether the Silke-worme or the Silke Flie were first
created. 21 22 23.
5 Whether the egge or the henne be first in nature. 24
25 26 27.
6 Why the silke flies are onely of a white colour. 28.
7 What day of the weeke they were first created. 29
30 31.
8 The rare vertues and chastity of Silke Flies. 27 28
33 38
9 That they are not to be scornd as being little and there∣fore
contemned creatures. 34 35 36 37.
10 Their wonderful encrease and propagation. 39 and
65 66.
11 Their manner of dying. 40 66.
12 That their egges are more worth then the egges of any
Flier: yea then the Philosophers egge, if there were any
such. 41 42 43 44 45 46 47.
13 Their egges must be kept in a temperate place. 48.
14 They are not to be hatched til the Mulbery tree buds.
50.
15 Why the Silke-wormes beeing crept out of the shel
feede onely vpon Mulbery leaues. 51 52 53.
16 How long they feede: When their meate is to be
gathered: In what quantity they are to be dieted. 55.
17 That variety of meates is naught for them. 56.
18 Their table is to be kept cleane. ibid.
How the sicke are discerned. 59.
19 Of their sleepe: ibid.
20 How they must be distributed when they grow great. 57.
21 The causes of their sicknesse. 59.
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22 Signes of their readinesse to worke, and how then they
must be vsed. 60.
23 How long they worke. 61.
24 When the wormes are metamorphosed into Flies. 61.
25 When and how their silke is to be winded vp. 61.
26 The sorts and vse of their silken threede. 63 64.
27 How their egges are to be preserued. 67.
28 That the silke of Silke-wormes is the best of al other. 68.
29 What profit and pleasure ariseth in keeping of them. 71 72 73 74.
30 Keeping of Silke-wormes hindereth neither Shep∣heards,
Spinsters, Weauers, nor Clothiers. 75.
FINIS.
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