howle, and yell (yea not withstandyng they bee 

 roughly rated), neyther will they stay their tounges 

 till the housholde servaunts, awake, ryse, searche, 

 and see the burning of the fyre, which beyng 

 perceaved they use voluntary silence, and cease 

 from yolping. This hath bene, and is founde true 

 by tryall, in sundry partes of England. There was 

 no faynting faith in that Dogge, which when his 

 Master by a mischaunce in hunting stumbled and 

 fell toppling downe a deepe dytche beyng unable 

 to recover of himselfe, the Dogge signifying his 

 masters mishappe, reskue came, and he was 

 hayled up by a rope, whom the Dogge seeyng 

 almost drawne up to the edge of the dytche, 

 cheerefully saluted, leaping and skipping upon his 

 master as though he woulde have imbraced hym, 

 beyng glad of his presence, whose longer absence 

 he was lothe to lacke. Some Dogges there be, 

 which will not suffer fyery coales to lye shattered 

 about the hearthe, but with their pawes wil rake 

 up the burnyng coales, musyng and studying fyrst 

 with themselves howe it myght conveniently be 

 done. And if so bee that the coales cast too great 

 a heate then will they burry them in ashes and so 

 remove them fonvarde to a fyt place wyth theyr 

 noses. Other Dogges bee there which exequte 

 the office of a farmer in the nyghte tyme. For 

 when his master goeth to bedde to take his 

 naturall sleepe. And when, 



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