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store by it. This rauen in a short time being ac- 

 quainted to man's speech, began to speak, and euery 

 morning would fly vp to the top of the rostra, or pub- 

 lic pulpit for orations, where, turning to the open 

 forum and market place, he would salute and bid 

 good morrow to Tiberius Csesar, and, after him, to 

 Germanicus and Drusus, the yong princes, euery 

 one by their names ; and anon the people of Rome 

 also that passed by. And when he had so don, 

 afterwards would flie again to the shoomakerVshop 

 aforesaid. This duty practised, yea, and continued 

 for many yeeres together, to the great wonder and 

 admiration of all men. Now it fell out so that an- 

 other shoemaker who had taken the shop next vnto 

 him, either vpon a malicious enuie, or some sudden 

 spleene and passion of choler, for that the rauen 

 chanced to meut a little, and set some spot vpon a 

 paire of his shoos, killed the said rauen. Whereat 

 the people tooke such indignation, that they, rising 

 in an uprore, first drove him out of that street, and 

 made that quarter of the city too hot for him, arid 

 not long after murdered him for it. But contrarie- 

 wise, the carkasse of the dead rauen was solemnly 

 enterred, and thefunerall performed with all ceremo- 

 nial obsequies that could be deuised ; for the corps 

 of this bird was bestowed in a coffin, and the same 

 bedecked with chaplets and garlands of rich flowers 

 of all sorts, and carried vpon the shoulders of two 

 blacke Mores, with minstrels before sounding the 

 Haut-boies, and playing on the fife as far as to the 



