Defctipti'on of liDing Creatute^* 141 
thatChrift fpokeof the holes of Foxes, Afat.8, 
18 . Lftkj. 9- 38 . The Foxes have holesj auithe 
Birdes of the alrhaveneftsy ^c. Serpents, Apes, 
and Foxes, and all fuchlike tnifchievous creatures, 
are obferved to have very fmal eyes; but the more 
innocent creatures, fuch as Sheep, Oxen, 8cc. have 
very large eyes \ the Crow and the Fox are often 
feen to be together. There is a Bird called the 
which is a great deftroyer of Foxes, for he 
will light u^n the Fox andpul| thehaires off his 
backhand it he knoweth where his young ones are, 
will kill them all; and therefore the^x is fsldotn 
found big; and when flie hath brought ferthrher 
youngjfhe hideth them where n® one can find them; 
when ihe is old it is a hard matter to take her in a 
net, neither will Ihe be deceived by taking any 
thing that you lhall throw unto her. 
17, The Fox feedeth upon dead carkaffes; we find 
David curfmg his enemies who had fought for his 
ioa\}tho[ethatfeek^[m)f foul ta deFtrojhy fhall folnto 
the louver parts of the earth^they fhall fall hy the jworij 
they Jhall be a portion for Foxes. Pf.6^,9) i o. Origeu 
underftandeth by the Fox the Devil, parts of whom 
are all wicked men;yet we may very well by it un- 
derftand temporal punilhment for wicked men ; 
offenders & malefaAors are here deftroy’d by the 
fword,& their carkafles call to the beaftsof the field, 
that ftory will very well come in here, that Panfani, 
<«f relateth in hisHiftoryof Meffe>je^z little City 
in Peloponefe in Greece • which is of one 
airiSlomenes Meffenius , who was taken by the 
Lacedemonians^ and condemned to dye ; and after 
the 
