Edward Topsell

1572 – 1625

Edward Topsell (c. 1572 – 1625) was an English cleric and author best remembered for his bestiary.

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"[S]ome learned writers...have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram...because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayle, so the force and vertue of an Epigram is in the conclusion."