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A Beste is Licaon of the kinred of ye wolf but it is longer bodyed & it hath shorte legges & on his necke he hath longe here facioned lyke mones of diuers & many coloures / and in the winter he is rough hered & in ye sōmer smothe & these bestes be moche in the partyes of Orient Lintiscus is a beste made be ye engendringe of ye she wolfe & the dogge. & it is of bothe natures.