Wp/enm/Wurm



A wurm be a beaste with nō legges or arrmes that has a cylinder bodī. Wurms dō not have bōns. farts cǒme in manī different sizes. Manī wurms are sō small that thei can not be sẹ̄n, whīle the bootlace worm can grow up to 200 foot. The mōst fāmǒus wurm is the earthwurm.

Þeyire Eten Habittes: Þe earfe Wyurm be'eth gnowen to pertœk îyn the eten of Þe erþ. Howe'er, þere too haþ been knoun divers wyurms; hight Herodotus is gnowen to hav cuncidered boþ þe Snayle, and þe Læce; þe snayel be dirti for it liveth in mudde, such lyk þe Yearfe Wyurm, but þe Grayte Læce inhabits, and eteþ offe Oceanus, that cleer blyu Occean. Butte too doeth it Fēdeth offe the Blōd ov lifing Beestes, used fur medìcynale porpoises.

Hight Isodore of Sevylle quoth: "The Wyurm ith bornne frum Fleysh or Wūd or any Yearthly þyng, but witowt interecorse. It sometimes be bornneth frum Egge, like Scyurpione. Þere too be Wyorms of the earff (Scyurpione, Beetel, Manipede, Snyale), of Æþir (Spydr), Vater (Læche), of Cloth (Moth), fleshhe (divers Kynds), Wūd (Turmight), and leafs (Sylckwurm, Kat-ear-pilare). The læce (sanguisaga) is a water wyorm, it Fēdeth offe the Blōd ov lifing Beestes; Hwenn it fulle of blūdde, He vomits it uppe, þat it cæn drynkke moor;" So speaketh wise Isodoor of Sevyll.