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so devoure them. When wolves set upon wilde Bores, 

 although they bee at variance amonge themselves, yet 

 they give over their mutual combats, and joyne together 

 against the Wolfe their common adversarie. 



" And this is the nature of this beast, that he feareth 

 no kind of weapon except a stone, for, if a stone be cast 

 at him, he presently falleth downe to avoide the stroke, 

 for it is saide that in that place of his body where he 

 is wounded by a stone, there are bred certaine wormes 

 which doe kill and destroie him. ... As the Lyon is 

 afraide of a white Cocke and a Mouse, so is the wolfe 

 of a Sea crab, or shrimp. It is said that the pipe of 

 Pithocaris did represse the violence of wolves when 

 they set upon him, for he sounded the same unperfectly, 

 and indistinctly, at the noise whereof the raging wolfe 

 ran away ; and it hath bin beleeved that the voice of a 

 singing man or woman worketh the same effect. 



" Concerning the enimies of wolves, there is no doubt 

 but that such a ravening beast hath fewe friends, . . . 

 for this cause, in some of the inferiour beasts their hatred 

 lasteth after death, as many Authors have observed ; for, 

 if a sheepe skinne be hanged up with a wolves's skin, 

 the wool falleth off from it, and, if an instrument be 

 stringed with stringes made of both these beasts the one 

 will give no sounde in the presence of the other. " 



Here we have had all the bad qualities of the Wolf 

 depicted in glowing colours ; but, as a faithful historian, 

 I must show him also under his most favourable aspect 

 notably in two instances one the she-wolf that suckled 

 Romulus and Remus, and the other who watched so 

 tenderly over the head of the Saxon Edmund, King and 

 Martyr, after it had been severed from his body by the 

 Danes, and contemptuously thrown by them into a thicket. 



