1^0 W'U cf 5 or,’ 
and therefore he is called F'^lpes quufi V ilvim 
fes, 
12. He goethas if he were lame, for his right 
legs are (horter than his left. 
13. He is a greater devourer of tame, than of 
wild Creatures. 
14. His breath is very ftrong,and his urine is no 
Icfs unpleafant than his breath; and if he bites any 
one itisvenemoas;it is obfervfid,that thofe places 
where they ate are very barren; the reafon of 
which fome think may be,that rank and unpleafant 
fmell which cometh from his body ;fo that, accor- 
ding to the Proverb, he ftinks ^ ere. 
15. When he wants food he will be very tame,&; 
keep about hoafes, and in the night time , if he 
can get any thing he takes it, and runs with it into 
the woods, and his hole or den hath fix or feven 
wayesto it, left any onelbould traylehim. 
1 6. There is a kind of mutual love between the 
Fox and the Serpent; for both of them love to be 
in holes and Caves; but though Foxes have holes, 
yet they be not of their own making; for thofe 
holes which the Badgers m^ke for themfelves, 
they by craft coufen them of by this ftratagem; 
when hefceth any of their, boles empty, he imme- ( 
dlately dungs juft at the mouth of the hole; when, 
the Badger returns he not enduring fuch a rank j 
fmell is forced to leave his hole; the feveral wayes | 
which lead to his hole are a great diftance one 
from another; for were they near one another, if 
the H'lntfman laid a gin atone place, let him come 
out where he would the dogs would fee him. We, fiad 
'that 
