Lastly, The word it self is improper, and the term of Grashopper not appliable unto the _Cicada_; for therein the organs of motion are not contrived for saltation, nor are the hinder legs of such extension, as is observable in salient animals, and such as move by leaping. Whereto the Locust is very well conformed; for therein the legs behind are longer than all the body, and make at the second joynt acute angles, at a considerable advancement above their backs. The mistake therefore with us might have its original from a defect in our language; for having not the insect with us, we have not fallen upon its proper name, and so make use of a term common unto it and the Locust; whereas other countries have proper expressions for it. So the _Italian_ calls it _Cicada_, the _Spaniard Cigarra_, and the _French Cigale_; all which appellations conform unto the original, and properly express this animal. Whereas our word is borrowed from the Saxon Gærsthopp, which our forefathers, who never beheld the _Cicada_, used for that insect which we yet call a Grashopper. CHAPTER IV Of the Picture of the Serpent tempting Eve. In the Picture of Paradise, and delusion of our first Parents, the Serpent is often described with humane visage; not unlike unto _Cadmus_ or his wife, in the act of their Metamorphosis. Which is not a meer pictorial contrivance or invention of the Picturer, but an ancient tradition and conceived reality, as it stands delivered by _Beda_ and Authors of some antiquity; that is, that Sathan appeared not unto _Eve_ in the naked form of a Serpent, but with a Virgins head, that thereby he might become more acceptable, and his temptation find the easier entertainment. Which nevertheless is a conceit not to be admitted, and the plain and received figure, is with better reason embraced. For first, as _Pierius_ observeth from _Barcephas_, the assumption of humane shape had proved a disadvantage unto Sathan; affording not only a suspicious amazement in _Eve_, before the fact, in beholding a third humanity beside her self and _Adam_; but leaving some excuse unto the woman, which afterward the man took up with lesser reason; that is, to have been deceived by another like her self.