Note 400 — CANES VENATICI. Class II.
William Dansey translation
Hierozoicon L. iii. c. xiii.
Ovid. Met. L. vii. 763.
The difficulty of capturing the fox is indicated, according to Bochart, by mythologists, in the fable of the Teumesian fox, the “altera pestis” of Bœotian Thebes, which, in the song of Sir Arthur Golding,
Golding’s Ovid’s Metam. Booke seventh.
— wrought the bane of many a wight. The countrie folke did feed Him with their cattle and themselves, untill (as was agreed) That all the youthfull gentlemen that dwelled thereabout Assembling, pitcht their corded toyles the champion fields throughout, But net, ne toyle was none so hie that could his wightnesse stop, He mounted over at his ease the highest of the top. Then every man let slip their grewnds, but he them all oustript And even as nimbly as a bird in daliance from them whipt, &c.