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The ''Cat'' in [[Latin]] is called '''Cautus''', warie or wise. In [[Greek]]e she is named ''Galiootes'', with the Germaines ''Kaiz''. She is to the [[Mouse (Maplet)|Mouse]] a continuall enemie, verie like to the [[Lion (Maplet)|Lyon]] in tooth and clawe: and useth to pastime or play with the Mouse ere she devoureth hir. She is in hir trade and maner of living very shamefast: alwayes loving clenlinesse. There is a kinde hereof called the wild ''Cat'', which of all things is annoyed with the smell of [[Rue]], and the [[Almond]] leafe, and is driven away with that sooner then with any other thing. |
The ''Cat'' in [[Latin]] is called '''Cautus''', warie or wise. In [[Greek]]e she is named ''Galiootes'', with the Germaines ''Kaiz''. She is to the [[Mouse (Maplet)|Mouse]] a continuall enemie, verie like to the [[Lion (Maplet)|Lyon]] in tooth and clawe: and useth to pastime or play with the Mouse ere she devoureth hir. She is in hir trade and maner of living very shamefast: alwayes loving clenlinesse. There is a kinde hereof called the wild ''Cat'', which of all things is annoyed with the smell of [[Rue]], and the [[Almond]] leafe, and is driven away with that sooner then with any other thing. |
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Revision as of 00:25, 13 January 2005
This is the entry for cat from Maplet's A Greene Forest
Of the Cat
The Cat in Latin is called Cautus, warie or wise. In Greeke she is named Galiootes, with the Germaines Kaiz. She is to the Mouse a continuall enemie, verie like to the Lyon in tooth and clawe: and useth to pastime or play with the Mouse ere she devoureth hir. She is in hir trade and maner of living very shamefast: alwayes loving clenlinesse. There is a kinde hereof called the wild Cat, which of all things is annoyed with the smell of Rue, and the Almond leafe, and is driven away with that sooner then with any other thing.
