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place where the trayne is drawne, he will followe it. But he 

 which maketh the trayne, mull rubbe the foales of his flioes with 

 Cowes dung, leaft the Foxe vent his footing. And thus you 

 may trayne a Foxe to a Handing, and kyll him in an euening 

 with a CrofTebowe. 



It is alfo a thing experimented, that if you rubbe a Tcr- 

 ryer with Brymftone, or with the oyle of Cade^ and then put 

 the Terryer into an earth where Foxes be, or Badgerdes, they 

 will leaue that earth, and come no more at it in two or three 

 months at leaft. 



Of the nature and properties of a Foxe, out 

 of another Author. Chap. (^7 



IT flialbe needlelle to fpeake of his fliape or proportion, fince he 

 is fo common a beaft. His conditions are in many respedts like 

 vnto y® Wolf. For firft y« bitch Fox bringeth forth as many cubs 

 at a lytter, as the flie Wolf doth, fomtimes more, and fomtimes 

 lefle, as the flie Wolf doth alfo. But indeed flie doth lytter them 

 deepe vnder the ground, and fo the Wolf doth not. She venometh 

 with hir byting when flie is fault, as the Wolfe doth. The life 

 of a Foxe and of a Wolf continue both like time. You llial hardly 



take 



