The flocke so neere, so well warnes and defends,

410That the wolfe, (hopelesse else) to corrupt her, intends.

XLII.

Hee tooke a course, which since, succesfully,

Great men have often taken, to espie

The counsels, or to breake the plots of foes.

To Abels tent he stealeth in the darke,

415On whose skirts the bitch slept; ere she could barke,

Attach'd her with streight gripes, yet hee call'd those,