Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
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Bede
AD 735
The foxes who destroy the vineyards are heretics and schismatics who devour with their crooked teeth the blossoming vineyard of the doctrine of Christ, that is, the green minds of the faithful. Would that we not know [such destruction]!