The true description of two monstruous Children Borne at Herne in Kent. The xxvii day of August In the year our of Lord. M. CCCCC. LXV. They were booth women Children and were Chrystened, and lived half a day. The one departed afore the other almost an hour.  
 depiction of conjoined twins  
THe monstruous and unnatural shapes of these Children & divers like brought forth in our days (good reader) are not only for us to gaze and wonder at, as things happening either by chance, or else by natural reason, as both the old, and our Philosophers also hold now a days: and without any farther heed to be had thereto, or else as our common custom is, by & by to judge god only offended with the Parents of the same, for some notorious, vice or offence reigning alone in them: But they are lessons & scholynges for us all (as the word monster showeth) who daily offend as grievously as they do, whereby god almighty of his great mercy and long sufferance, admonisheth us by them to amendment of our lives. no less wicked, yea many times, more than the parents of such mysformed be. That this is true they shall well perceive, that rightly weigh and consider the answer of our Saviour christ unto his disciples, asking him whether wear greater sinners, the blind himself, either else his parents, that he was so borne: To whom our saviour christ answered, that neither he, neither they were faulty 
john ix.  therein, but that he was therefore borne blind, to th'end the glory of God might be declared on him, and by him. The same also appeareth in another answer made by our saviour christ to them, which told him of the Galleyans, whom Pontius pilate put to death for their rebellion against Augustus 
Luke xiii.  their Emperor, wherein he declareth (as also by those xviii persons on whom the Tower by Sylotell) that there were as great offenders remaining alive, as any of them were. Wherefore he eftsoons admonished them to amendment of life in general: or else by their examples threatened them with as grievous destruction, as fell upon any of them. These examples moved me (good reader) in consideration of these days of our forgetfulness of duty, wherein we set so light the great bounty and goodness of God, calling us by these and such like examples to repentance and correction of manners, and not still to flatter ourselves while we judge others and wink at our own faults, to cause these twins thus to be portractured. And sure to him that considereth as he ought to do, the great decay of hearty love and charity (among many other wants that the world is now fallen in,) and had viewed and beheld the two babes, the one as it were embracing the other, and leaning mouth to mouth, kissing (as you would say, one another:) it might seem that God by them either doth upbraid us, for our false dissembling and judas conditions & countenances, in freyndly words, covering Caynes thoughts and cogitations, or else by their semblant and example, exhort us to sincere amity and true friendship, void of all counterfeiting, or else both. Neither let any man think this an observation over curious, for as much as Christ himself hath by children taught us, that unless we become like Children, we shall 
Mark x.  not come in the kingdom of heaven. God make us all children in this wise, and perfect and well learned men-to note and observe to what end he sendeth us such sights as these, that here by (put in remembrance the rather of our duties both to him and our neighbours) we may attain to life everlasting by christ our Lord. To whom with the holy Ghost for this and all other his works, be all majesty, power glory and dominion, now and ever. Amen.   

Imprinted at London in Fletestreat by Thomas Colwell: For Owen Rogers dwelling at S. sepulchres Church door.