Of the nature of a Badger, out of the same Author. Chap. 68. (Book 68)
THe Badgerd (sayth he) maketh but slow speede before the hounds, and cannot long stand vp. So that commonly she •…•…igh teth it out at the Baye, or else taketh the earth, & there is killed with Terryers. For if you finde a Badgerde a∣broad, it shall not be from hir burrow lightly. A Badger pray∣eth vpon any vermine or other thing, and will feede vpon any caryon or fruit like vnto the Foxe. The Badgerd battles much with 〈◊〉〈◊〉, & is a verie fat beast. Once in a yeare they engēder as the Fox, and they litter them in their holes, euen as the fox doth. Their biting is venemous, as the Foxes is, but they make better defence for themselues, and fight more stoutly, & are much stron∣ger. The bloud and greace of a Badgerd, is medicinable as the Foxes bloud is also. Some hold a blinde opinion, that if a yong childe should weare his firste shoes of a Badgerdes leather. he should euer afterwards heale a horse of the Farcine if he did but once get vp v•…•…on him. The flesh of a Badger is as much worth as that of a Foxe, which is to rewarde the hounds withall, and yet that but of y• greace, & certaine parts of him neither. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…ounds will eate of a Foxes fleshe, but a Badgerdes is wallo∣wish