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where but in the Villages and countrey Townes: and therein 

 they are fo fubtile and craftie, that neyther dog nor man can de- 

 fende them. They lye lurking al day in ditches neare vnto hou- 

 fes, to fee howe dame Pertlot the hufbandmans henne doth, 

 and to fee hir chickens vertuoufly brought vp. The fkynne of 

 the Foxe is a very good furre and a warme, but it is not verie 

 faire, and it llinketh alwayes, vnlefTe it be verie excedingly well 

 drell. The greace and marrowe of a Foxe are verie good to rub 

 fynewes that are flironke. Of the reft of his fubtleties and pro- 

 perties I will fpeake more at large in the hunting of him. He 

 is taken with Houndes, Greyhoundes, Terryers, Nettes and 

 ginnes. But if the Nettes and ginnes be not ftrong, he will 

 foone difpatch them like a Wolfe. 



Of the nature of a Badger, out of the 

 fame Author. Chap. 6% 



THe Badgerd (fayth he) maketh but flow fpeede before the 

 hounds, and cannot long ftand vp. So that commonly 

 flie fighteth it out at the Baye, or elfe taketh the earth, and 

 there is killed with Terryers. For if you finde a Badgerde a- 

 broad, it fliall not be from hir burrow lightly. A Badger pray- 

 eth vpon any vermine or other thing, and will feede vpon any 

 caryon or fruit like vnto the Foxe. The Badgerd battles much 

 with flepe, and is a verie fat beaft. Once in a yeare they engender as 

 the Fox, and they litter them in their holes, euen as the fox doth. 

 Their biting is venemous, as the Foxes is, but they make better 

 defence for themfelues, and fight more ftoutly, and are much ftron- 

 ger. The bloud and greace of a Badgerd, is medicinable as the 

 Foxes bloud is alfo. Some hold a blinde opinion, that if a yong 

 childe fliould weare his firfte flioes of a Badgerdes leather, he 

 fliould euer afterwards heale a horfe of the Farcine, if he did but 

 once get vp vpon him. The flefti of a Badger is as much worth 

 as that of a Foxe, which is to rewarde the hounds withall, and 

 yet that but of y« greace, and certaine parts of him neither. For few 

 hounds will eate of a Foxes fleflie, but a Badgerdes is wallo- 



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