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faulte, wherein they abide ten or twelue dayes : many Wolues 

 (where ftore be) do follow one flie Wolfe, euen as Dogges fol- 

 low a Bitche : but flie will neuer be lined but onely with one. 

 She will fufFer many .to follow hir, and will carrie them after 

 hir fometimes eight or tenne dayes without meate, drinke, or 

 reft : and when they are ouerwearied, then fhe fufFreth them all 

 to take their eafe, vntill they route and be faft on fleepe : and then 

 will fhe awake y* Wolfe which feemeth moft to haue folowed 

 hir, and that oftentimes is the fouleft and worft fauourd, bycaufe 

 he is ouerwearied and lankeft; him will flie awake and tyce 

 him away with hir farre from the reft, and fufFer him to line hir. 

 There is a common Prouerbe, which faith that: Neuer Wolfe 

 yetfavjehis Syre : for indeede it hapneth moft commonly that when 

 all the reft of the Wolues do awake and mifTe the female, they 

 follow them by the fent, and finding them oftentimes togy- 

 ther, they fall vpon that Wolfe and kill him for defpite. But 

 if there bee no greater ftore than one Dogge Wolfe and one 

 bitche in a place, then this Prouerbe fayleth : yea or fometimes 

 alfo the refl of the Wolues are fo long ere they do awake and 

 follow, that they cannot fo quickly difpatch or kill him accor- 

 ding to their defire, and then alfo it faileth. Their whelps are 

 able to engender within twelue months : and when theirwhelps be 

 a yere old, then they part from their Syre and from their Dam : yea 

 fometimes fooner, but not before their teeth be caft and Ihot out 

 againe, for they caft teeth firft when they are halfe yere old, and 

 when they are come vp again, they neuer caft more al their life 

 time. Then they depart from their dam when thofe teeth are come 

 out again and grown hard, and they feke their aduenture, and pray for 

 them felf: and if they chance to meete their fyre or dam at anytime 

 after, they wil fawne vpon them, and licke them, and feme in their 

 kindgreatly to reioyce. Agood exampleforfundryeuildifpofed chil- 

 dren, which become vngrateful to their parents, which bring them 

 vp carefiilly : Since the brute beaft can teach them their dutie, only 

 by y®inftind and motions of nature. Alfowhena dog and a bitch of 

 them do company once togithers, they will not lightly part in fun- 

 der : for thogh they pray in diuers places, yet at night they wil 



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