Though you believe it not, I care not much: but an honest man, and of good judgment, believeth still what is told him, and that which he finds written.
Is this beyond our law or our faith--against reason or the holy Scripture?
For my part, I find nothing in the sacred Bible that is against it.

But tell me, if it had been the will of God, would you say that he could not do it?
Ha, for favour sake, I beseech you, never emberlucock or inpulregafize your spirits with these vain thoughts and idle conceits; for I tell you, it is not impossible with God, and, if he pleased, all women henceforth should bring forth their children at the ear.

Was not Bacchus engendered out of the very thigh of Jupiter?
Did not Roquetaillade come out at his mother's heel, and Crocmoush from the slipper of his nurse?
Was not Minerva born of the brain, even through the ear of Jove?
Adonis, of the bark of a myrrh tree; and Castor and Pollux of the doupe of that egg which was laid and hatched by Leda?
But you would wonder more, and with far greater amazement, if I should now present you with that chapter of Plinius, wherein he treateth of strange births, and contrary to nature, and yet am not I so impudent a liar as he was.

Read the seventh book of his Natural History, chap.3, and trouble not my head any more about this..