HENCE it is, that, if they become not altogether _Jolt-Heads_, _Foolish_, or _Delirious_, they are most ordinarily otherways _Lewd_, _Vitious_, and _Licentious Persons_, if not also _envious Traducers_, and _crafty Cozeners_ of Mankind: From hence likewise the _Italians_ and _Germans_ derive a memorable _PROVERB_, which they never forget upon dealing with such _Persons_, viz. to this purpose; _Take Care of Him whom_ GOD _has marked_. For tho’ _some of Them_, are capable of undertaking _Nothing_ of any Moment, much less of accomplishing any laudable _Work_, _NATURE_ it self thwarting their _Career_ in every _Enterprize_, and the very STARS (as it were) concurring to their _Frustrations_: Yet _others_ have subtile WITT enough to scrape together (_per Fas aut Nefas_) Heaps of contemptible _Dross_, much of affinity with their own vile _Substance_; which however, seldom prevents a base or ignominious _CATASTROPHE_ to _themselves_, who are thus found established upon such a _præternatural_ BASIS of _Pollution_. IF then _these_ be the direful _Consequences_, how unreasonably cruel are such _Parents_, who thus by Enterprising the Work of _PROCREATION_ without _humane Decency_, and contrary to the very _Institution_ of _NATURE_, involve their _Posterity_, in such miserable _Calamities_? But this sort of BIRTHS, I have also diligently observ’d, happens most frequently in _Holland_, and _that_ chiefly for the _Reasons_ and _Causes_ mentioned in the foregoing _Chapter_. Which _Observation_ leads me to the following _Matter of_ FACT, which (without any intended _Reflection_, or _Reproach_ upon any particular _Country_, or rather, as _this_ would be, upon _Human Nature_ it self) I shall ingenuously relate, not only to clear up the _MYSTERY_ of a certain _Truth_, which I have found, to be _controverted_ in this Place, and _that_ even among some of the more _Learned_ themselves; but also for _Morality_ and _Instruction_ sake to the _Reader_ in particular, and for the _common Good_ of _Mankind_ in general, _viz._—— THAT these BIRTHS in those _Parts_, are often attended and accompany’d with a _Monstrous little Animal_, the likest of any thing in Shape and Size to a MOODIWARP; having a _hooked Snout_, _fiery sparkling Eyes_, a long _round Neck_, and an acuminated _short Tail_, of an extraordinary _Agility_ of _FEET_. At first _sight_ of the World’s Light, it commonly _Yells_ and _Shrieks_ fearfully; and seeking for a _lurking Hole_, runs up and down like a _little Dæmon_, which indeed I took it for, the first time I saw it, and _that_ for none of the _better Sort_. Moreover——