A hundred barres of brasse and yron boltes, 

 Make all things safe from startcs and from revokes. 

 When Janus keepes the gale with Argos eye, 

 That daungers none approch, ne mischiefes nye. 



As Virgill vaunteth in his verses, Then if his 

 master byddeth him go abroadc, he lingereth not, 

 but raungeth over all his lands lying there about, 

 more diligently, I wys, than any farmer himselfe. 

 And if he finde anything their that is straunge and 

 pertaining to other persons besides his master, 

 whether it be man, woman, or beast, he driveth 

 them out of the ground, not medling with any 

 thing which doth belong to the possession and use 

 of his master. But how much faythfulncs, so 

 much diversitie there is in their natures, 



/ Which barcke only with free and open 

 For there ) throats but will not bite. 

 be some, j Which doe both barcke and byte, 



V Which bite bitterly before they barcke. 

 The first are not greatly to be feared, because 

 they themselves are fearefull, and fearefull dogges 

 (as the proverbe importeth) barcke most vehe- 

 mently. 



The second are dangerous, it is wisedome to 

 take heede of them because they sounde, as it 

 were, an Alarum of an afterclappe, and these 

 dogges must not be over much moved or provoked 

 for then they take on as outragiously as if they 

 were madde, watching to set the point of their 



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