Wp/enm/Lesarde



A lesarde biþ a manere of beste, of smal or middlyng muchelnes, wiþ woneliiche foure leggys and onne teyl. Hit mai ben broune, or grene, or grei, or yellwo, or dyuers colours.

Hi liuen in neiȝ alle landys boten for Antartike end Iisland end Greneland, and Canada, and norþerne Rusland; þoȝ hote landes ben hem ykyndeste, so bisene soþ Evrope and Affrike and soþ Asja and þe moost del of Amerika.

Lesardis ben isibbe wiþ nadres and cocadrilles and tortouses and þe tuatara. Hii arn alle gadred in þe genre of lif þat is iclepyd Reptilia.

Manie species of lesardys ibeen on Erþe. Some gendres of lesardes arn camelions and slowurmys (þe naven no leggys) end skinkes, and gekos. Sume lesards eeten flesch to mete, þat is, hy aren carnivores, end sum aren herbivores, þat meeniþ hy eeten plantes.