Athenians rather prate upon that, then they 

 should saye worse of me. 



(ii) When time came that they were to departe 

 the haven, and that all the cittie of Athens had 

 taken sea : — There was a certen pittie that made 

 mens harts to yerne, when they saw the poor 

 dogges, beasts, and cattell ronne up and downe 

 bleating, mowing, and howling out alowde after 

 their masters, in token of sorowe, when they did 

 imbarke. Amongest these, there goeth a straunge 

 tale of Xanthippus dogge, who was Pericles father : 

 which for sorowe his master had left him behinde 

 him, dyd cast himself after into the sea, and 

 swimming still by the galleys side wherein his 

 master was, he helde on to the isle of Salamina, 

 where so sone as the poore curre landed, his breath 

 fayled him, and dyed presently. 



Plutarch, translated by Sir Thomas North. 



Thesmopolis and the Maltese Cur ^> <i* 



(From The Lamentable Lot of the Learned who engage 

 themselves in noble and opulent Families) 



MUST relate to you a strange adventure that 



befell the celebrated Thesmopolis, and indeed 



may equally befall any other. He was living at 



the time in the house of a rich and elegant matron. 



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