To his Wife, for striking her Dog -o ^> 



A/OUR little Dog that bark'd as I came by, 



-*■ I strake by hap so hard, I made him cry, 

 And straight you put your finger in your eye, 

 And lowring sate, and ask'd the reason why. 

 Love me and love my Dog, thou didst reply : 

 Love, as both should be lov'd, I will, said I, 

 And seal'd it with a kisse. Then by and by 

 Clear'd were the clouds of thy faire frowning skie. 

 Thus small events great masteries may try. 

 For I by this do at their meaning guesse, 

 That beat a Whelpe afore a Lyonesse ! 



Sir John Harrington. 



Of Englishe Dogges <^ <2y <^ 



(From A Short Treatise unit ten in Latine by Johannes 

 Cains, and newly drawne into Englishe by Abraham 

 Fleming, Student. Imprinted at London in 1576) 



T) UT to returne to our shepherds dogge. This 

 *~* dogge either at the hearing of his masters 

 voyce, or at the wagging and whisteling in his 

 fist, or at his shrill and horse hissing bringeth the 

 wandring weathers and straying sheepe, into the 

 selfe same place where his masters will and wishe 

 is to have them, whereby the shepherd reapeth this 

 benefite, namely, that with little labour and no 



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