Quam uariis terris animalia permeant figuris.
The beestes [passen by] the erthes by ful diverse figures. For
som of hem han hir bodies straught and crepen in the dust, and
drawen after hem a tras or a foruh y-continued; that is to seyn, as
nadres or snakes. And other beestes, by the wandringe lightnesse
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of hir winges, beten the windes, and over-swimmen the spaces of
the longe eyr by [moist fleeinge]. And other beestes [gladen hem-self]
to diggen hir tras or hir steppes in the erthe [with hir goings]
or with hir feet, and to goon either by the grene feldes, or elles to