the thicke and huge woodes, happened one day

to come into a great large playne, where not farre from him he ſawe trauerſing in the way fower great and terrible Lions: whereof he being marueilouſly afrayd (to beholde ſo horrible a ſight), tooke him to his legges and ranne for life:

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and bicauſe he was not able to runne ſo farre right out, as the Lions had force to followe him, by good hap in running he was ware of a Well in the middeſt of the field, about which grew certain wilde rootes of little trees, and, being come to the Well he caught holde with