LIBRARY > Digital edition: Lib. Cat. No. TOP1608 > “Of the Chamaeleon.” In The historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of living creatures: wherein is contained their divine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their lively figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their severall poysons and antidotes; their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction. Necessary and profitable to all sortes of men: collected out of divine scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and aenigmaticall observations. By Edward Topsell. London: Printed by William Jaggard, 1608. 112–119. By Edward Topsell (bap. 1572, d. 1625).

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