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What is the reason that at a certeine time of the yeere, shee woolves doe all whelpe within the com∣passe of twelve daies?
ANtipater in his booke conteining the historie of living creatures, affirmeth, that shee woolves exclude foorth their yoong ones about the time that mast-trees doe shed their blossomes; for upon the taste thereof their wombs open: but if there be none of such blowmes to be had, then their yoong die within the bodie, and never come to light. He saith moreo∣ver, that those countries which bring not foorth oaks and mast, are never troubled nor spoiled with wolves. Some there be who attribute all this to a tale that goes of Latona; who being with childe, and finding no abiding place of rest and safetie by reason of Juno, for the space of [ 30] twelve daies; during which time, the went to Delos, being transmuted by Jupiter into a wolfe, obteined at his hands, that all wolves for ever after might within that time be delivered of their yoong,