Nor the least Insect passe your Contemplation.
Nor use you shortnesse, nor prolixity;
But first describe, then speak its property.
Me thinks, as Pliny, you are their Relator;
And are as Adam too, their Nomenclator.
For, to your Insects, Birds, and Vegetives,
You give not known, but due Appellatives.
Their rich descriptions, when you paint, I see
Colours so lively, and such Symmetry:
But that I’ve seen the hand, that guides the quill,