When Tyrants will oppresse th'innocent, a sleight pre-*text is made sufficient.
Au chair de loup sauce de chien: Prov. Wolues flesh must be eaten with dogs sauce.
Bien a crié le loup qui sa proye rescoult: Prov. He followed the Wolfe to purpose that recouers his prey.
Brebis contées mange bien le loup: Prov. The Wolfe eats counted (and vncounted) sheepe; All's one to him that loues to haue his will.
C'est vne bonne prise que d'vn ieune loup: Prov. He hunts full well that catches a young Wolfe; bad plants would be plucked vp while they be young.
Depuis que la brebis est vieille le loup la mange bien: Prov. The hungrie feed well on tough, and drie meats.
En esperance d'avoir mieux tant vit le loup qu'il devient vieux: Prov. The Wolfe growes old by hoping still for better; or, the Wolfe, the whilest he hopes for better, is growne old.
En fin les loups tuent le chien qui tue les loups: Prov. The Wolues at length kill dogs that killed Wolues.
En la peau ou le loup est luy convient mourir: Prov. The Wolfe must die in his owne skinne; or, the skinne a Wolfe hath preyed, let him perish, in.
Homme seul est viande aux loups: Prov. The solitarie man becomes Wolues meat.
Ieune en sa croissance a vn loup en la panse: Pro. Young springalls haue Woluish, or great appetites.
Il fait mauvais aller au bois quand les loups se mangent l'un l'autre: Prov. It is not good to goe to the wood when Wolues deuoure one another.
Il ne faut estre loup, ny en affubler la peau: Prov. One must neither be, nor seeme, naught.
Le dernier le loup le mange: Prov. Delay breeds danger; lags come to the lash.
La faim chasse les loups hors du bois: Prov. Hunger makes men forgoe their safest holds.
La mauvaise garde paist souvent le loup: Prov. A Wolfe ill lookt to oftentimes growes fat.
Mauvaise est la saison quand vn loup mange l'autre: Prov. Hard is the time when Wolues doe feed on Wolues; or, tis a hard time when one Wolfe eats another.
On crié tousiours le loup plus grand qu'il n'est: Prov. Report makes dangers greater then they be.
Peu à peu le loup mange l'oye: Prov. Looke Oye.
Qui a le loup pour compagnon porte le chien sous l'hocton: Prov. He that hath a Wolfe to his mate had need of a dog to his man.
Qui parle du loup on en voit la queuë: Prov. Appliable (as Lupus in fabula) when one thats spoken of as absent suddenly appeares.
Qui se fait brebis le loup le mange: Prov. He that makes himselfe a sheepe will be vsed as a sheepe.
Tandis que le chien chie le loup s'en va: &; Tandis que le chien crie le loup s'en fuit: Prov. Whilest men attend vnnecessarie, they loose necessarie, aduantages.
Tandis que les chiens s'entregrondent le loup devore la brebis: Prov. While the dogs iarre the Wolfe deuours the sheepe.
Tandis que le loup muse la brebis entre au bois: Prov. Whilest the wicked consult th' innocent escape them; (Hereby also is meant, that opportunitie may be neglected, or aduantages lost, by tedious consultations.)
Loup-araigne. Any kind of Spider that hunts, or watches for, flies.
Loupasson: m. A small, or young Base; a little sea Wolfe.
Loup-cervier: m. A kind of white Wolfe, or beast ingendred betweene a Hind and a Wolfe, whose skinne is much esteemed by great men; yet some (not beleeuing that those beasts will, or can mingle) imagine it rather to bee the spotted Linx, or Ounce; or a kind thereof.
Loup chat: m. The (rauenous, and spotted) Linx, or Ounce; or (as Gesner thinkes) the Hyena.
Loupe: f. A flegmaticke lumpe, wenne, bunch, or swelling of flesh vnder the throat, bellie, &c; also, a little one on the wrist, foot, or other ioynt, gotten by a blow whereby a sinew being wrested rises, and growes hard; also, a Weauers cloth-beame; that about which his web rowles as he weaues it.
Loupeux: m. euse: f. Full of wennes, or troubled with a wenne.
Loup-garou: m. A mankind Wolfe; such a one as once being flesht on men, and children will rather starue then feed on any thing else; also, one that, possessed with an extreame, and strange melancholie, beleeues he is turned Wolfe, and as a Wolfe behaues himselfe; also, a Hobgoblin, Hob-thrush, Robin-good-fellow; also, a night-walker, or flie-light; one thats neuer seene but by Owle-light; also, a suttle fellow, slie companion, wilie fox, craftie knaue.
Loupie: f. as Loupe. Louppe: f. as Loupe; And, in a horse, the water Farcie.
Lourche: f. The game called Lurche; or, a Lurch in game. Il demeura lourche. He was left in the lurch.
Lourd: m. lourde: f. Dull, sottish, blockish; clumpse, numme, heauie mettalled; rude, lumpish, lowtish, clownish, lob-like; vnhandsome, vnciuile, vnmannerlie. À paroles lourdes sourdes oreilles: Prov. Looke Oreilles. Lourdaut: m. as Lourderie; and hence; Il est en son lourdaut. He is in a surlie mood, or churlish humor; he is sicke of the mumps, or sullens; he sells sowce.
Lourdaut: m. A sot, dunce, dullard, grotnoll, iober-*noll, blockhead; a lowt, lob, luske, boore, clowne, churle, clusterfist; a proud, ignorant, and vnmannerlie swaine.
Lourdement. Sottishly, dully, bluntly, blockishly, heauily; rudely, grossely, clownishly, churlishly; vnciuilely, vnhandsomely, vnmannerly. Bien lourdement chargé de debtes. Farre indebted, ouer head and eares in debt.
Lourderie: f. Sottishnesse, blockishnesse; lumpishnesse, clownishnesse; surlinesse, churlishneße; inciuilitie, rudenesse, vnmannerlinesse.
Lourdin: m. ine: f. Lourdaine; blunt, somewhat blockish; a little clownish, lumpish, rude; smelling of the churle, or lobcocke.
Lourdinet. as Lourdin. Lourdise: f. as Lourderie. Lourdois. en son lourdois. Bluntly, grossely, rudely; after his rude, clownish, homelie, or slouenlie manner.
Loure: f. A bagpipe: ¶Poictevin. Lourette: f. A small bagpipe.
Lourpidon: f. The name of an old witch, or hag in A-*
