that beast, and to commit themselves to the good 

 of him, rather than of reasonable men. 



A courtier envying the credit of a certaine friend 

 of his, or carried away with some other malice 

 came suddenly upon him, and killed him, and 

 after buried him in a place besides the way. The 

 partie slaine had at the same time a hound with 

 him, who lay a long while upon his master's grave. 

 Hunger for that time overcomming love, he returnes 

 home, and being seene without his Master by 

 some other friends, who thought the dog had been 

 straied from him, they bad that some meat should 

 be given him. Having let downe a few morcels, 

 he returnes to the grave, which course he continued 

 so often, that the friends of the dead began to 

 suspect, and at last beleeved that the dog sought 

 for his Master : They follow him, and comming to 

 the place where the earth was cast up, dig into it, 

 find the bodie, take it away, and cause it to be 

 buried in another place. The solemnities ended, 

 the dog keepes with them whom he had lead to 

 this discoverie. A good while after, the murtherer 

 comes againe to the court ; the dog knowes him, 

 and begins to run at him with great cries, and so 

 earnestly pursueth his point upon him, that 

 suspition begins to enter into the minds of a great 

 many, that there was some evill in the man. The 

 dog continuing still to vex him, the king was at 



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