...it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to fowle bigger than a Mallard and lesser than a Goose,...manner as is our Mag-Pie, called in some places a Pie-Annct, which the people of Lancashire call by no other Dame than a tree Goose : which place aforesaid,...

...forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth...bigger than a Mallard and lesser than a Goose, having black legs, and bill or beake, and feathers black and white, spotted in such manner as our Mag-pie,...

...forth, and hangeth onely by the bill : in short space after it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth...fowle bigger than a mallard and lesser than a goose," &c. Gerard prefaces his account with " what our eyes have seene, and hands have touched, we shall declare...

...bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gatbereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose, having black legs, and bill or beake, and feathers black and white, spotted in such manner as our magpie,...

...commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a foule bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose, having blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers black and white." — " For the truth whereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repaire unto me,...

...forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth...bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose, having black legs, and bill or beake, and feathers black and white, spotted in such manner as our magpie,...

...shells open more and more, till at length it is attached only by the bill, soon after which it drops into the sea, " where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger then a mallard, and lesser then a goose." You will find the following lines, from Du Bartas, expressive...

...bill: in short space after it commcih to full maturitic, and fiilleth into the sea, where it gathen-ш feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard...lesser than a goose, having blacke legs and bill or beak.-, and feathers blacke :\nd white, spotted in such manner at ь our mag-pie, called in some places...

...full maturitie, and falleth into the see, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle biggar than a mallard, and lesser than a goose ; having blacke...beake, and feathers blacke and white, spotted in such a manner as is our magpies, called in some places a pie-annet, which the people in Lancashire call...

...forth and hangeth only by the bill : in short space after it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard, and lesser VOL. I. E In both narrations, if we substitute the idea of the metamorphose, for that of a successive...