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eaned. And cold water of the North is good to them in 
summer, and warm water of the South is good to them in 
harvest. And herds know which of them may dure 
[endure] in winter; for upon some is found ice, and upon 
some none ice is found; and some of them be feeble, and 
may not shake off the ice; and those that have long tails 
may worse away-with winter than those that have broad 
tails. And wool of Sheep that a wolf eateth is infected ; 
and the cloth that is made thereof is lousy. Also in Sheep 
is less wit and understanding than in another four-footed 
beast. Also thundering maketh solitary Sheep to cast their 
lambs ; the remedy and help thereof is to gather and bring 
them together into one flock. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 81. 
Or Sheep, their wool is a singular benefit in a common- 
wealth, especially the Cotswold wool for fineness. And_ in 
Bartholomew's time, the staple for wool was not so well 
husbanded as it hath been since. The increase of pasture 
for Sheep hath so much decreased the tillage of corn, that, 
until it be restored again, there will grow a poor common- 
