An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Or her putters forth. By which we are to understand such young ones as are ready to put forth feathers, but cannot yet fly abroad to shift for themselves; or they are so called,¹ because young ones are put forth of the eggs. What do they? they suck up blood. The word notes a very greedy sucking, it is a double word, & so implies, as it were, a double drinking, a drinking with such hast, that they are ready to choke; and so Master Broughton translates it expressly, Her young ones near choke swallowing blood, they swallow it so greedily that they are ready to choke themselves with it; that's a good reading. The Septuagint, ²say her young ones are sprinkled with blood, as they that feed upon raw flesh, especially when newly killed or torn, are speckled or sprinkled with blood: Her young ones are rolled or wallowed in blood, saith another. All readings show what provision she makes for her young ones while under her keeping, and how they keep themselves when gone off from her hand; she brings up her young ones to her own trade, feeding them with flesh, and acquainting them with the sweet of blood; she and her young ones are all of a diet. 'Tis said of the Eagle, that she never drinks water, nor is at all thirsty; but both she and her young ones suck up blood.

Or her putters forth. By which we are to understand such young ones as are ready to put forth feathers, but cannot yet fly abroad to shift for themselves; or they are so called,¹ because young ones are put forth of the eggs. What do they? they suck up blood. The word notes a very greedy sucking, it is a double word, & so implies, as it were, a double drinking, a drinking with such hast, that they are ready to choak; and so Master Broughton translates it expresly, Her young ones near choak swallowing blood, they swallow it so greedily that they are ready to choak themselves with it; that's a good reading. The Septuagint, ²say her young ones are sprinkled with blood, as they that feed upon raw flesh, especially when newly killed or torn, are speckl'd or sprinkled with blood: Her young ones are rolled or wallowed in blood, saith another. All readings shew what provision she makes for her young ones while under her keeping, and how they keep themselves when gone off from her hand; she brings up her young ones to her own trade, feeding them with flesh, and acquainting them with the sweet of blood; she and her young ones are all of a diet. 'Tis said of the Eagle, that she never drinks water, nor is at all thirsty; but both she and her young ones suck up blood.