THE BRITISH PUGXACES. 67 



Camden to have originated with a supposition or mistaken 

 reading of \Yolf-gangus Lazius of the word cynoecii, who 

 seems to have mistaken the Imperial Linen Draper for a 

 Canine Agent of the Emperors. Rather rough on the 

 old women of writers who he has misled, but such is the 

 result of ignorance and piracy ; where one sheep goes others 

 \vill follow, and writer after writer pirates the misstatements 

 which I have only mentioned so fully to expose. 



