defending them forceably from the invasion of 

 villous and theefes, preserving their lyfes from 

 losse, and their health from hassard, thcyr fleshe 

 from hacking and hewing and such like desperate 

 daungers. For which consideration they are 

 meritoriously U-armed 



In Latine Canes defensores defending dogges in 

 our mother tounge. 



If it chaunce that the master be oppressed, 

 either by a multitude, or by the greater violence 

 and be so beaten downe that he lye groveling on 

 the grounde, (it is proved true by experience) that 

 this Dogge forsaketh not his master, no not when 

 he is starcke deade : But induring the force of 

 famishment and the outragious tempestes of the 

 weather, most vigilantly watcheth and carefully 

 keepeth the deade carkasse many dayes, in- 

 devouring, furthermore, to kill the murtherer of 

 his master, if he may get any advantage. Or else 

 by barcking, by howling, by furious jarring, 

 snarring, and such like meanes betrayeth the 

 malefactour as desirous to have the death of his 

 aforesayde master rigorouslye revenged. 



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In fyers also which fortune in the silence and 

 dead time of the night, or in stormy weather of 

 the sayde season, the older dogges barcke, ball, 



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