A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.

Of••he Woulfe.

THe Woulfe is called Lupus saith Isidore, as if you would say Leopos, footed like the Lyon. It is a most rauinous kinde of Beast, terrible, and astonying a man at his first sight: whereof arose an olde Prouerbe, Lupus in fa∣bula. Signifieng, that there it was best to stay, and to haue no more such talke of him as was talked of before. Aristotle saith, that in time of coniunctiō they be most fierce, alwaies wood so long as they haue yong. And the same Au∣thor also saith, that when they are hunted and put to flight, they cary their yong with them, & in their iourneying they eate of Origan, to sharpe their teeth, which are in a maner like to our Saw. They being in extreme hunger (ra∣ther than they should famish) féede hartily vp∣on yearth and such like grosse matter. Ouid recordeth of a pleasure done or of well deser∣uing in this kind to two brethren, Romulus & Remus, whome Amulius their Graundfather sought to haue destroyed. And thus he shew∣eth the same.

Venit ad expositos (mirum) Lupae faeta gemellos, quis credat pueris non nocuisse faeram. A Woulfe with belly big with yong to two twinnes abiect came

who in the world would not haue though•• that these should haue had harme

Likewise a hée Woulfe of wonderfull crueltie is reported at the beheading of Edmond King of England to haue taken away from the cō∣pany his heade, and to haue preserued it long time without hurt or blemish.