i 64 €t)e of '3mtC0 5 or, 
of the field to fiis houfe ; fo that the fiercert crea- 
tures that are be mindful of kindncfles done to 
them ; a £>//wben his belly is full, if among a 
flockoffheep,feemeth rather to be a lamb than a 
Wolf, jdrtfiotle faith, th^t in a certain place in 
Greece, the VY olfwill couple with the dog ; when 
a company of Wolves have gotten a prey, they 
will equally divide what they have got; fometimes 
the Wolf and the dog will plot as it were together 
to go into a flieep-fold i She hateth the Bull, the 
Hart, the Fox, and the Goat ; it hath all the pro- 
perties and qualities of a he exceedeth the 
Lion in craft and deceitfulnefs ; that creature 
which AlbertHs faith is begotten of a Stag and a 
Wolf, which fome call a l>os or a Lynx^ is a kind of 
Vf^elf-^ it beareth an inveterate enmity to the 
Hart^znA thence it is that in Latin he is called Ln- 
ppts Cervarinsy and for his ravenous and greedy 
nature cometh not behind the Wolf ; nay, he 
will kill a Wolf, and hath been feen to have de- 
flroyed a young Lion ; when he is hungry, abd 
is eating, if he looketh back, he forgetteth that he 
hath any thing, and goeth to look after another 
prey : there is a beaft like a Wolf who hath a 
mane like a horfe, whom forae call a he will 
go into graves, and devour dead bodies, a fit re- 
prefentation and fymbole of thofe flanderers which 
do not fpare to deftroy the good name of their 
neighbour after he is dead. A Wolf will go a- 
mong the fheep in the night time, and will learn 
thofe tones that the fhepherds ufeto them ; nay, 
they will learn the fhepherds name, and will call 
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