The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].
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The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].
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[Antwerp :: Emprented by me Ioh[a]n of Doesborowe],
[1527?]
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Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68218.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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¶Of borax. ca. xvi.
[illustration]
BOrax is a maner of a tode that hathe a stone in his hede / & whan this stone is goten out the whyle that the tode dothe lyue / than hathe the sto¦ne in hymselfe a fygure of an iye / but if it be taken out whan the tode is ded than hathe the venym taken awaye that iye and enpayred the stone This tode / whan that it is stered or meued thāne swelleth it of his owne venym or poyson. And they feght against the spyders and the tode is ouercomen of the spyder because the spider stingeth hym alway and that he can nat gete the spyder / he sw••lleth for anger that he bursteth / and the byt of this tode is so venymous that it is nat lightely to be holpen or cured and with rewe thei be slayn / & they may nat se the bright∣nes of the son̄e / & be night they couyte to be in the fote wayes or pathes / and where the people trede. also thei may nat smell the blossom of ye vynes som∣tyme they be a cubyte of lēgth / of these be many in spayne.
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