459 SHAKESPEARE’S [woLr. 
any part of his flesh, they empty their bellies of the earth 
as unprofitable food. If there be many of them, in hunting 
together they equally divide the prey among them ll. 
One saw a Wolf in a wood take in his mouth a piece of 
timber of some 30 or 40 pound weight, and with that he 
did practise to leap over the trunk of a tree that lay upon 
the earth; at length when he perceived his own ability and 
dexterity in leaping with that weight in his mouth, he did 
there make his cave and lodged behind that tree. At last 
it fortuned there came a wild sow to seek for meat along 
by that tree, with divers of her pigs following her, of 
different age, some a year old, some half a year, and some 
less) When he saw them near him, he suddenly set upon 
one of them, which he conjectured was about the weight 
of wood which he carried in his mouth, and when he had 
taken him, whilst the old sow came to deliver her pig at 
his first crying, he suddenly leaped over the tree with the 
pig in his mouth, and the poor sow could not leap after 
him, and yet might stand and see the Wolf to eat the pig 
which he had taken from her. When they will deceive 
goats, they come unto them with the green leaves and 
small boughs of osiers in their mouths, wherewithal they 
know goats are delighted, that so they may draw them 
therewith, as to a bait to devour them. Their manner is 
when they fall upon a goat or a hog, not to kill them, 
but to lead them by the ear with all the speed they can 
drive them to their fellow-Wolves; and if the beast be 
stubborn, and will not run with him, then he beateth his 
hinder-parts with his tail, holding his ear fast in his mouth. | 
But if it be a swine that is so gotten, then they lead him 
to the waters, and there kill him, for if they eat him not 
out of cold water, their teeth doth burn with an untolerable 
heat. If a horse tread upon the footsteps of a Wolf which 
is under a horse-man or rider, he breaketh in pieces, or 
else standeth amazed, If a Wolf treadeth in the foot-steps 
of a horse which draweth a waggon, he cleaveth fast in the 
road as if he were frozen. The Wolf is afraid of a sea- 
crab or shrimp. If a man anoint himself with the fat or 
suet taken out of the reins of a licn, it will drive away 
from him all kinds of Wolves. The Ravens are in per- 
petual enmity with Wolves, and the antipathy of their 
natures is so violent that if a raven eat of the carcase of 
a beast which the Wolf hath killed, or formerly tasted of, 
