Sorts of Earth-Worms.

In Base is a Scytall, which is a kind of Blind Worm, very full of marks or spots upon the back; so variable and delectable, that it possesseth the behold∣ers with admiration; it is thicker and flatter at one end more than the other, as long as any Earth or Garden Worm; the brightness of whose skin or scaly hide doth not rightly appear till it hath cast its slough, which it e∣ver doth in the Winter time.

The double headed Worm, there is no great diffe∣rence between this and the Scytall; but that this goes or creepeth both ways, and that but one way; the colour is generally both one. It is called in Latine Amphisbe∣na, double headed, because it goes both ways, as if it had two heads and two tails; that as is now the head, is presently the tail, for it is never seen to turn the head, and it is like an Earth-Worm, hard to distinguish which is either head or tail, being the whole proportion of his body is of an equal magnitude, of the colour of earth, not black, but blackish, the skin rough and hard, set over with diverse coloured spots in rows, gliding on the ground with an hi•her bulk than other Serpents.

The Earth-Worm, or Meds, of which there are two sorts, the greater and the lesser; the greater are long and round, of a whitish colour, and sometimes, though seldom, of a bloody hue; they have a kind of Bloody Chain or Collar about their neck, without eyes, as all other Worms; of some they are called also Dew-Worms.

The Ascarides, or lesser Earth-Worm, are found in great numbers in Dung-hills, Mixens, and under heaps of Stones; of this sort some are red, which we English Men call Duggs; these are much used for Baiting of Angling hooks, to take Fish with.

Some are yellow, called Yellow-Tails, or Gold∣en Tails.

Some are white, called White-Tails.

Some are blewish,

Some are black.

XLIII. He beareth Argent, a Dragons head coup∣ed, Gules, holding of a Winged Serpent, Vert▪ This is the ancient Crest belonging to Gamull, of Knigh∣ton, in Shropshire.

☞ You need not express his holding of it in his mouth, because the head hath no other way of holding; but if it were a demy Dragon, or any other thing, whose feet are seen, if then the holding be in the mouth or in the feet, then it ought to be mentioned whether in the mouth or foot. Note also, That Serpents, Ad∣ders, Eels, and such sort of long tailed Creatures, of∣ten in their holding thus, are apt to be enwrapped a∣bout the thing holding them; and then they are Blazon∣ed thus, such a thing holding a Serpent, enwrapped about the Neck or Leg.

XLIV. He beareth Azure, a Dragon Tyger, Ar∣gent, Collared and Chained, Or. By the name of Gym. This hath of some been unadvisedly termed a Lion Dragon, as having the head and tail of a Dra∣gon, and body of a Lion: But such must consider, that the most fittest and general received term, is to give it that name first which the head is of.

☞ For there is much difference between a Dra∣gon-Lion, and a Lion-Dragon; between a Dra∣gon-Tyger, and a Tyger-Dragon; the first be∣ing the head of a Dragon, and the body of a Lion or Tyger; and the latter the head of a Lion or Ty∣ger, and the body of a Dragon, as I shall shew by Page  211 many examples of mixed Creatures of this nature; see numb. 49, 50, 60▪ 61.

Some again Blazon this a Dragon sans Wings, which is also most improper, seeing it hath neither the body or feet of a Dragon.

☞ And here note also, that the tails of these Dra∣gonish Creatures, of what kind soever they be, are turn∣ed round, and are Serpent like.

A the same sans Collar and Chain G is born by Dra∣•erdorfe.

XLV. He beareth Argent, a Dragon Tiger se∣grant, or rampant and winged, Azure. I say wing∣ed, because such Creatures as these are more commonly born without Wings than with Wings; and when Wing∣ed, they are made like the Wings of a Dragon. This is born by the name of Almarade.

O 3 such rampant G is born by Livershau.

XLVI. He beareth Gules, two demy Dragon-Ty∣gers rampant, endorsed, their Necks Fretted, Or. This is the Crest of Dracolary, of Spain. The word en∣dorsed may be spared, for their Necks cannot be fretted except they were endorsed.

G 2 Dragon-Tygers rampant A their necks and tails fretted A born by Tygurgon, of France.

XLVII. He beareth Or, a Chymera Monster, Gules. I term this a Chymera Monster, being it is Monstrous from the Chymera, mentioned, numb. 33. that having, as the Poets feign, three heads, one of a Lion, another a Goat, and the last a Dragon, with its body framed thereunto, according to their kinds, as you may there see; but this being but one headed crea∣ture, and yet compounded of those foresaid three kinds, can have no better a term given from such a Sire, but be termed its Bastard or its Monster; for it is a creature that hath the head and body of a Goat, (except a Beard) the Breasts of a Womon, the four feet like an Eagle, the tail of a Lion, and the Wings of a Dra∣gon. It is of some termed Olochymera, and Se∣michymera, smelling, participating, resembling in part the Chymera. This is born for the Crest or Cog∣nizance of Chimalara.

XLVIII. He beareth Argent, a Griffon passant, Sable. This is a kind of Monster that is half an Eagle half a Lion. If it be rampant, it is in that posture ever termed a Griffon segrant, (or after some Segreant or Sergant) others term it Surgiant, as if it were rising to fly. And notwithstanding all this, yet there is able Heraulds, who term it Rampant, which they say is not improper, seeing it partakes in part with the Lion, and is of a Lion like cou•age, in its as∣saults. And according to the two examples following, may be called an Eagle-Lion. This is born by the name of Bold of Bold, in Lancashire. The like is born by Halton.

O the like Rampant (saith Gwilliams, but Legh saith Sergeant) S born by the name of Morgan. fol. 262. pag. 51.

☞ The term Sergeant saith the later, being a term peculiar to the Griffin, as being of a double kind, if that be the cause (saith the former) that then it cannot be peculiar to the Griffin, but rather com∣mon to all other Animals of a double nature, as the Wivern-Cockatrice, Lion-Dragon, Dragon-Tyger, &c.

G a Griffin rampant, A born by Odorsky.

S a Griffin Sans wings, rampant coward, O born by Van Firdenheim.

O an Eagles heads with Hounds ears, A is the quar∣tered Coat and Crest of A•rb•rg.

XLIX. He beareth Argent, a Lion-Dragon, Azure. This is a kind of a Creature, that hath the fore parts of a Lion, and the hinder parts of a Dra∣gon, (that is, in short) half a Lion, and half a Dragon. If it have wings, then the term (winged) is to be used.

☞ This is the fittest, and most properest way of drawing these Creatures, half one, and half the other; yet I find it in antiquity variously drawn, some with all the feet like a Dragon, others all like a Lion: but all ever have, and ought to have, the tail of a Dragon, or Serpent, turning round; if the tail be in any other posture then to be mentioned according to its •ouldings, or turnings. This is born by the name of Du Ma•a.

A a Lion-Dragon Sergreant, or Segrant, G born by Don Spido.

B 3 such passant, O born by De le Millecko.

L. He beareth Gules, a Dragon-Wolve, Or. by the name of Aldobrando of Italy, sometimes they may be of two colours, the Dragon part one, and the Wolve and Tail another; then term it, party coloured, Or and Argent: or else per pale Or and Argent: or else a Dragon-Wolve, the first part Or, the later Ar∣gent. All these ways have I found them termed, in bla∣zon.

B the like Segrant, A born by Dragolf.

☞ Here you see in these two examples, the differ∣ence of the draught, between Lion-Dragon, and Dra∣gon-Lion: as I did tell you before, numb. 44. The like is to be observed in the commixtures of other Crea∣tures, as Horse-Dragon, Unicorn-Dragon, the Swine, or Boar-Dragon, the Ape-Dragon, the Hart-Dragon, with variety of such like bearings: in which be careful to mention the head part first; and in the draught, to make one hal•, of one kind, and the other half, of the other. Yet some of these of a double kind have peculiar names to themselves, as the examples following will make manifest: those except out of this rule, see chap. 9. numb. 36, 37.