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 May 1, 2024.
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Of the Enidros. cap. lvij.
[illustration]
A Litell beste is Enidros. & it is mo¦che in ye water of Nilus. & where soeuer it fyndeth that serpēt cocodryl¦lus before named slepīge. ther it doth wentylle & turne hym selfe in slypery myre & than it slippeth betwene the teth of cocodrillus & so descendeth in to the bely of cocodrillus & there terith it a sonder all ye intrayls & guttes of his bely & so sleeth it ye cocodrillus. ¶Eni¦tra is a lytell beste / & of thē be many ī germania / & they make grete holes in ye erth / & they gathre in the somer that yt they lyue by in ye winter / the female is alway fatte & the male lene / for she is euer etynge & he is so gredy & so spa¦ringe yt he thȳketh that he shall neuer haue ynoughe & also he hydeth from his female al his mete as moch as he can because she shold nat eat of it but she is wilye yt she maketh a hole comȳ¦ge from another waye to stele his me¦te priuily that he dothe nate knowe of it & so desceyueth him & eteth his mete and that is ye cause that he is so lene
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