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ftandy cometh out ot her burrought and there fhe 
fits at the entrance of it, to fee it there be any ap- 
proaching danger ; and if at any time fhe be clofe- 
ly purfued, and hath no way to efcape, fhe imme- 
diately runs into her burrough> out of which 
there is no way to get her, but by fending a Fer-^ 
ret after her; for there is nothing which the Rab- 
let hateth more than the Ferret ; there is fuch 
plenty ot them in fom.e parts Oi Spain, that often- 
times they have deftroyed the Harvefi : Nay, we 
read ofthe Ifland called that the Inha- 
bitants were once deftroyed by them; and Marcus 
Varro (quoted by Pliny) faith, that there was a 
City in Spain undermined by Cer.ejs ; but what 
we faid before conccining the Hare, that it might 
be compared to ti mi erons and cowardly men, we 
may fay the like concerning the Coney ; the Fable 
of the Hares and the Lten is known, how that the 
Hares would have given Laws to the Lion, who 
afterwards were deftroyed by him ; which may 
fignifie thus much to us, that oftentimes mild and 
timerous Princes do rule and govern a fierce and 
war-like people, by whom their Kingdome is fom.e- 
times overthrown $ or elfe it may fignifie thole 
men who are afraid to tell men of their faults : the 
Germans have a Proverb, Per ha fen Syurng, j. e, 
Lhe anckje of an Hare, meaning any thing that men 
truftto, or relye upon; for the a^nclile^bene in 
the Hare is that without which fhe could not leap; 
but by the way we fhall Ipeak to Prov, 3o.Herf 
a 1. 25 , a 6. there are four things tp hi chare upon the 
earth, bm are exceeding wife • the Jms are a peoplg 
