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of the Fox ; there is no virtue in the Hare worth 
commendation.; but infteadof thisj Nature to re- 
compence them (as the Heathen Phrlofophers fay) 
hath given them very long ears, that they might 
the better perceive dangers approaching; and as 
foon'as hefeareth any danger, he flyeth fo fwiftly, 
that fometimes intheraiditof his flight he dieth; 
hi is fo fearful, that oftentimes to avoid one dan- 
ger, he runneth into another ; when he is purfued 
he runnethinto his hole : It is reported of a 
that being hunted very hard, he ran into the Sea,' 
and there was killed by the Sea-dog; no one would 
hunt a Hate with a Snail, according to the Dutch 
Proverb. It is a further argument of the timerouf- 
nefs ©f the Hare, that fhe fliunneeh thofe places 
that patfengers come through, but loveth woods 
and hedges ; Ljfander did well when he comman- 
ded his men to be of good courage when they lay 
before Corinth, becaufe he faw a Hare running up- 
©n the walls ; for, faith he, it cannot be that the 
Hare would be there, if they had ever ufed any 
military exercife upon them ; and poflibly from' 
hence came that faying, that it is a bad ^n for a 
Hnretoerefsusin the way; for it fignineth that 
thofe places are very lonefome, and that few peo- 
ple frequent them, and fo the more dangerous. 
3 . It hath a very weak^and infirm fight, he fleepeth 
not as other creatures do with his eyes fhut, and 
therefore of old, to live the life of a Hare, was as 
much as to fay, you are in perpetual fear. 4. h is 
exceeding fraltfal, and of all other creatures, this 
only after flie hath brought forth her young, con- 
ceiveth 
