Note e — BOOK IV. (continued 2)
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The Hedgehog being an helpless, slow, patient Animal, is accordingly guarded with Prickles, and a Power of rolling it self up in them. Clavis terebrari sibi pedes, & discindi viscera patientissimè ferebat, omnes cultri ictus sine gemitu plusquam Spartanâ nobilitate concoquens. Borrichius in Blas. de Echino. Panniculum carnosum amplexabatur Musculus panè circularis, admirandæ fabricæ, lacinius suas ad pedes, caudam, caput, variè exporrigens, cujus minsterio Echinus se ad arbitrium in orbem contrahit. Act. Dan. in Blasio.
Iste licèt digitos restudine pungat acutâ, Cortice deposito mollis Echinus erit. Mart. l. 13. Epig. 86.