A tale of the Woolfe concerning breach of promiʃe.
A Woolfe was taken in a ſnare that a ſhepeheard had pitched at the foote of a hill (where euerye morning he founde the haunt and tracke of the Woolfe's feete) and at that time there paſſed by another ſilly ſhepeherde, whom the Wolfe called to him, and made a bargain with him, that if he would loſe him he woulde neuer take any of his ſhepe, & thereupon gaue him his faith. The ſhepeherde newly come to keepe ſheepe, like a foole beleeued him, and loſing him in deede let him goe. The Woolfe being at libertie ſtrayde not farre but he had gotten a fatte Weather by the neck: the ſhepeherde ſeeing that, complained, and appealed to the Judges, and tolde them the pleaſure he had done him, and what the Wolfe did promiſe him. The Woolfe being brought before the Judges, denied that he promiſed him ought: and if they would needes make it that he had made him a promiſe, he ſayd that in that place where they ſay he had promiſed him, he would go from his worde againe. The Judges agreed, and went togithers to the place. The Woolfe being come to the foote of the hill, ſaid to the ſhepeherd: was I here? yea anſwered
