New Englands Prospect / A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants

by active 1629-1635 William Wood

The large lim'd Mooses, with the tripping Deare,

Quill darting Porcupines, and Rackcoones bee,

Castelld in the hollow of an aged tree;

The skipping Squerrell, Rabbet, purblinde Hare,

Immured in the selfesame Castle are,

Least red-eyd Ferrets, wily Foxes should

Them undermine, if rampird but with mould.

The grim fac't Ounce, and ravenous howling Woolfe,

Whose meagre paunch suckes like a swallowing gulfe.

Blacke glistering Otters, and rich coated Bever,