ABSTRACT
Of the Bugil. .;olour. Another reafon forcing me to yeeld hereunto is, that in the Sea a Pc~ljpuJ·fifb,and in the earth among creeping things, a Cbam£lecn, do alfo change their colour in like fort and fdfbion: whereunto it may be replyed, that theCham.e!eonand Po~pus-fi!b, arc pi !led or bare without hair, and therefore may more eafily be verfe-colourcd; but it is a thing impofiible in nature, for the hair to receive any tincture from the pafilons: but I anlwer, that the fame nature can multiply and diminith her power in Ieifer and fmaller Beafis, according to her plea lure, and referveth an operation for the nails, and feathers of birds, and fins and fcales of fifhes, making one lore of divers colour from the other : and therefore may and doth as forcibly work in the hatrs of a Buff.:, as in the skm of a Cham.eleon; adding fo much more force to tranfmute them, by how much farther off they fiand from the blood, like as an Archer, which fetteth his arm and bow higner to fhoot farrher,and therefore it is worthy obfervation, that as this beafl: hath the befl: detence by her skin above all other, fo {he hath a weakefi and mofl: timerous heart above all other.
