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. xcvij.
[illustration]

PIca is a Pye / the whiche byrde is subtyle and false. and he hath a brode tōge therfor he lerneth lightly to speke / & he maketh his nest with .ij. holes / the one he crepeth in at / and the other his tayle hangeth oute at / and he festeneth it withinforth wyth lome and claye and so maketh it very close. and without it is stronge of wode

The Operacion.

The flesshe of this byrde is good to be eten for to gete the sight of the iyen. ¶It is lately fortuned & of a trouthe yt thei fought a batayle agaynst the ia / yes in suche maner yt ther were many pyes slayne. but yet they wōne ye feld and threwe to ye grownde thirty thou¦sand iayes

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