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Vers. 7.

He maketh my vine waste, and pilleth off the barke of my figge tree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it downe: the branches thereof are made white.

* 1.1A Second kinde of harme and losse caused by these beasts, name∣ly, the vtter eating vp of the vines themselues, that there should be no hope left of gathering in of wines against the yeares to come. A third kinde, the spoyling of the figge trees,* 1.2 the breeding of

wormes in them, the pilling of the barke, and blasting of them. The which diseases and faultes are wont especially to bee in figge trees and figges. For the figge is of that sort of trees the which easily looseth her fruits: and yet besides it hath these peculiar dis∣eases Plinius lib. 17. Nat. hist. cap. 24. Of wormes that are in figges, some doe breede of them, others the worme Cerastes ingendreth, yet they all do turne into the Cerastes. Againe, it is proper vnto bla∣sting, when as graffed and young plants die, especially figges and vines. Finally, the same Plinius sayth: There are for the same cause (when as showers or heate doe abound, or are altogether wanting) Cankers breeding, an harmefull creature, and they eate vp the leaues, and some the flowers, and leaue the tree which they haue eaten in an ill fauoured sight to beholde and looke vpon. Thus much hath he, which I iudged not vnfit for the laying open of the meaning of this place: albeit, as I haue sayd, I doe easily grant that in this multitude there was some thing extraordinary.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A second hurt by the forena∣med creatures.
• * 1.2

  The third hurt