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There dwelled a great Paragone of India (of thoſe that liue a hundreth yeares and neuer mue their feathers), a bird of the water, aire, and earth, in a great thicke cloſe knot of Roſemarie vppon a pleaſaunt Lake, placed beneath amongſt the little hilles spred ouer with herbes and flowers. And always in his youth he liued (as his nature is) of fiſhe, the which with ſome deuiſe hee tooke by moone light with great ſweat and labor. And nowe being aged, and not able to plunge into the water with his wonted force, he was driuen to flie in the aire and feede on