The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise

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Title: The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise
Author: Plutarch.
Publication: At London :: Printed by Arnold Hatfield,; 1603.
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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,