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without life by suffocation, it is notable to observe their 

 singular subtilty to drawe him out of the mire, whereby 

 they may eat him ; for one of them goeth in, and taketh 

 the beast by the taile, who draweth with al the power 

 he can, for wit without strength may better kill a live 

 Beast, than remove a dead one out of the mire ; there- 

 fore, he looketh behind him, and calleth for more helpe ; 

 then, presently another of the wolves taketh that first 

 wolve's tail in his mouth, and a third wolf the second's, 

 a fourth the third's, a fift the fourth, and so forward, 

 encreasing theyr strength, until they have pulled the 

 beast out into the dry lande. Sextus saith that, in case 

 a Wolf do see a man first, if he have about him the tip 

 of a Wolfs taile, he shal not neede to feare anie harme. 

 All domestical Foure footed beasts, which see the eie of 

 a wolfe in the hand of a man, will presently feare and 

 runne away. 



" If the taile of a wolfe be hung in the cratch of Oxen, 

 they can never eat their meate. If a horse tread upon 

 the foote steps of a Wolfe, which is under a Horse-man 

 or Rider, hee breaketh in peeces, or else standeth amazed. 

 If a wolfe treadeth in the footsteps of a horse which 

 draweth a waggon, he cleaveth fast in the rode, as if he 

 were frozen. 



" If a Mare with foale, tread upon the footsteps of a 

 wolfe, she casteth her foal, and therefore the Egyptians, 

 when they signifie abortment doe picture a mare treading 

 upon a wolf's foot. These and such other things are 

 reported, (but I cannot tell how true) as supernaturall 

 accidents in wolves. The wolfe also laboureth to over- 

 come the Leoparde, and followeth him from place to 

 place, but, for as much as they dare not adventure upon 

 him single, or hand to hand, they gather multitudes, and 



