Venifon, when he is in pride of Greafe, than any othei» 

 Deer doth, and is very long liv'd. He is more com* 

 monly drawn after with a Blood-hound, than hunted, 

 and intrapped with Nets and Engines, and that in 

 the thick and greateft Holds, if it may be j which 

 is the heft and fpeedieft way, by reafon of his great and 

 fpreading Head. Since there are but few of them in 

 England, I (hall defift from difcourfing farther concer- 

 ning him. 



Of the Nature and Properties of a Hare. 



AN Hare is called in Hebrew Jrnebet in the Femi- 

 nine gender, which word pofTeffed a great many 

 that all Hares were Females : He is called Lagas by 

 the Greeks, for his immoderate Luft ', and by the fame 

 Nation Ptoox, for his Fear h and by the Latines Lepuf, 

 quafi Levi-pefy fignifying Swiftnefs of feet (alias) IJght- 

 foot. 



There are four forts of Hares i fome live in fhe 

 Mountains, fome in the Fields, fome in the Ma rfhes, 

 fome every where, without any certain place of abode. 

 They of the Mountains.^ are moft fvvift » they C)f the 

 Fields, lefs nimble-, they of the Marfhes, molt llow \ 

 and the wandering Hares are moft dangerous to fallow •, 

 for they are fo cunning in the ways and mufes of the 

 Fields, running up the Hills and Ptocks, becaufe by cu- 

 ftom they know the nearer way, tvith other trich s, to 

 the confufion of the Dogs, and dif-encouragcmcnt of 

 the Hunters. 



In the next place, a defcription of the parts of an 

 Hjire will not be.unnecefTary, fince it is admirable ro 

 behold how every Limb and Member of this Bcalt is 

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