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and dexterity in leaping with that waight in his mouth, 

 he did there make his cave, and lodged behinde that 

 tree ; at last, it fortuned there came a wild Sow to seeke 

 for meat along by that tree, with divers of her pigs 

 following her, of different age, some a yeare olde, some 

 halfe a yeare, and some lesse. When he saw them 

 neare him, he suddenly set upon one of them, which he 

 conjectured was about the waite of Wood which he 

 carried in his mouth, and when he had taken him, 

 whilest the old Sow came to deliver her pig at his first 

 crying, he suddenly leaped over the tree with the pig 

 in his mouth, and so was the poore Sow beguiled of her 

 young one, for she could not leape after him, and yet 

 might stand and see the Wolfe to eate the pigge, which 

 hee had taken from her. It is also sayd, that when they 

 will deceive Goates, they come unto them with the greene 

 leaves and small boughes of Osiers in their mouthes, 

 wherewithall they know Goats are delighted, that so 

 they may draw them therewith, as to a baite, to devour 

 them. 



" Their maner is, when they fal upon a Goat or a Hog, 

 or some such other beast of smal stature, not to kil 

 them, but to lead them by the eare with al the speed 

 they can drive them, to their fellow Wolves, and, if the 

 beast be stubborne, and wil not runne with him, then he 

 beateth his hinder parts with his taile, in the mean time 

 holding his ear fast in his mouth, whereby he causeth 

 the poore beast to run as fast, or faster than himselfe 

 unto the place of his owne execution, where he findeth a 

 crew of ravening Wolves to entertaine him, who, at his 

 first appearance seize upon him, and, like Divels teare 

 him in peeces in a moment, leaving nothing uneaten but 

 onely his bowels. . . . 



