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 29, 2024.

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Cap. xiiij.

BArliata is a byrde that groweth out of ye wode / and some say that it is wode of abieta that standeth vpō the see stronde the whiche falleth oftē tymes in the water & that roteth / and yt rotē wode geueth a grose humoure of the whiche cōmeth a lytell byrde as moche as a larke / and they hāge with

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the nebbe on the wode / and they flete thorough the see so longe tyll that thei fall of. Philozophus sayth that it is well knowen in Germania that thys byrde cōmeth without any generaciō yet he fleeth as other birdes dothe

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