And thus also must that picture be taken of a Dolphin clasping an Anchor: that is, not really, as is by most conceived out of affection unto man, conveighing the Anchor unto the ground: but emblematically, according as _Pierius_ hath expressed it, The swiftest animal conjoyned with that heavy body, implying that common moral, _Festina lentè_: and that celerity should always be contempered with cunctation.
There is also among us a common description and picture of a Grashopper, as may be observed in the pictures of Emblematists, in the coats of several families, and as the word _Cicada_ is usually translated in Dictionaries. Wherein to speak strictly, if by this word Grashopper, we understand that animal which is implied by Ïá½³ÏÏιξ with the _Greeks_, and by _Cicada_ with the _Latines_; we may with safety affirm the picture is widely mistaken, and that for ought enquiry can inform, there is no such insect in _England_. Which how paradoxical soever, upon a strict enquiry, will prove undeniable truth.
For first, That animal which the _French_ term _Sauterelle_, we a Grashopper, and which under this name is commonly described by us, is named á¼ÎºÏÎ¹Ï by the _Greeks_, by the _Latines Locusta_, and by our selves in proper speech a Locust; as in the diet of John _Baptist_, and in our Translation [SN: Prov. 30.], the _Locusts_ have no King, yet go they forth all of them by bands. Again, Between the _Cicada_ and that we call a Grashopper, the differences are very many, as may be observed in themselves, or their descriptions in _Matthiolus_, _Aldrovandus_ and _Muffetus_. For first, They are differently cucullated or capuched upon the head and back, and in the _Cicada_ the eyes are more prominent: the Locusts have _Antennæ_: or long horns before, with a long falcation or forcipated tail behind; and being ordained for saltation, their hinder legs do far exceed the other. The Locust or our Grashopper hath teeth, the _Cicada_ none at all; nor any mouth according unto _Aristotle_: the _Cicada_ is most upon trees; and lastly, the fritinnitus or proper note thereof, is far more shril than that of the Locust; and its life so short in Summer, that for provision it needs not have recourse unto the providence of the Pismire in Winter.