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judicious pallats. Here the swine feed in the forrest on plenty of 
acorns (men’s meat in the golden, hog’s food in this iron age;) which, 
going out lean, return home fat, without either care or cost to their 
owners. Nothing hut fulness st.inteth their feeding on the mast 
falling from the trees, where also they lodge at liberty (not pent up, as 
in other places, to stacks of pease), which some assign the reason of 
the fineness of their flesh; which, though not all glorre (where no 
bancke of lean can be seen for the deluge of fat), is no less delicious to 
the taste, and more wholsome for the stomack.” ( Worthies of England , 
vol. i. p. 400, ed. 1811.) 
Glore is a word still used for fat in the north of 
England. 
Venus , fearful for the safety of Adonis , reminds him 
of the dangerous nature of the beast he proposes to 
encounter 
“ ‘ Thou hadst been gone/ quoth she, c sweet boy, ere this, 
But that thou told’st me thou wouldst hunt the boar. 
0, be advised ! thou know’st not what it is 
With javelin’s point a churlish swine to gore, 
Whose tushes never sheathed he whetteth still. 
Like to a mortal butcher bent to kill. 
“ ‘ On his bow-back he hath a battle set 
Of bristly pikes, that ever threat his foes; 
His eyes, like glow-worms, shine when he doth fret; 
His snout digs sepulchres where’er he goes; 
Being moved, he strikes whate’er is in his way, 
And whom he strikes his crooked tushes slay. 
“ ‘ His brawny sides, with hairy bristles arm’d, 
Are better proof than thy spear’s point can enter; 
His short thick neck cannot be easily harm’d; 
Being ireful, on the lion he will venture; 
The thorny brambles and embracing bushes, 
As fearful of him, part, through whom he rushes. 5 ” 
( Venus and Adonis, 11. 619-630.) 
The antiquary, John Stowe, gives an account of Saint 
Anthony’s pigs, in his Survey of London , written in the 
reign of Elizabeth :— 
“ Some distance from this, the Merchant-Tailors’ Hall, is Finke’s 
Lane, so called of Robert Finke, and Robert Finke his son, James 
