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the acrimony of it hurteth them, andmaketh them flmt their 

 liddes. 



The ftory (if it be true) of the Fox,that to fave himfelfe from 

 the Dogs that he heard following him in full cry , did hang by 

 his teeth among dead vermine in a warren js a very ftrange one 

 I confeffe : but it is conceivable , how feare and wearinefle 

 might caud- him tofeekeamelter tohide himlelfe : and in lb 

 plaine a tract, of ground as warrens ule tobein, without any 

 buili orhiiltohaverecour/e unco for reliefer, there appearing 

 nothing but a gallowes hanging full of vermine ; hisfantaly 

 might be moved (he being able to run no further,) tothrufi 

 himfelfe among ^thofe dead bodies , that he (aw reitcd quietly : 

 and having no way to mingle himfelfe with them , but hanging 

 by his teeth ; he might continue in that poliure, till the Dog* 

 not fufpe&mg him in the ayre, might run under him, and 

 over/hoot the (eat : which whiles they call about to recover, 

 by running to beate the next wood or flicker in view (as is their 

 cuftome in lofles of their chance ; unto which they arc brought 

 by their matters hunting them in that method at thefirlt ) 

 the wily animall ftealeth an other way,and recovereth him(elf. 



This overrunning of the fent by Dogs in the earneftnefle of 

 their chace, putteth me in mind of Montagues argument., out 7. 

 of which he will infer, that Dogsufedi/courfe, and do make Concerning 

 fyllogifines in their hunting : for (laith he)when they have fol- Mouniagucs 

 lowed their chace downe a Lane, that at length divideth it (eife movr^Ve 

 into three others ; they will carefully (meli at the firft and at Dog$ mike 

 the lecond , and not finding that it hath gone in eiiher of 

 thole, they boldly runne upon the third, without ever lay- 

 ing their Nofes to the ground ; as being afTured by their dif- 

 courfe and realbn , that fince k went not in the two firft , and 

 there being but one remaining , it muft ofneceflity have gone 

 there. 



But this needeth no other caufe, then that their eagernefie of 

 hunting having made them overmoote the fent, (which for a 

 while remaineth in their nofes, after they are parted from the ob- 

 ject that caufed it) they caft back agajne (as they are accu/tomejd 

 tobemade to do in like 'occafions by the hunters that train theirj 

 up ) an^ with their nofes they try the groijnd all the way they 

 goe; ciil comming ncerc where the chace went indeed, the 



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