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Instances of sagacity. 



him in prose, 1 will say somewhat too in verse, 

 asyou may finde hereafter. Now let Ulysses praise 

 his dogge Argus> or Tobite be led by that dogge 

 whose name doth not appear; yet could I say such 

 things of my Bungey, for so was he styled, as 

 might shame them both, either for good faith, 

 clear wit, or wonderful deedes; to say no more than 

 I have said, of his bearing letters to Londone and 

 Greenwiche, more than an hundred miles. As I 

 double not but your highnesse would love my 

 dogge, if not myselfe; I have been thus tedious 

 in his storie; and again sai, that of all the dogges 

 near your father's courte, not one hathe more 

 love, more diligence to please, or less pay for 

 pleasinge, than him I write of; for verily a bone 

 woulde contente my servante, when some ex- 

 pecte greatar matters, or will knavishly find oute 

 a motion of contention." 



Two gentlemen, who kept their fox-hounds at 

 Whinnick, in Northamptonshire, used sometimes 

 to go for a fortnight's hunting to Lutterworth, 

 in Leicestershire. On one of these expeditions, 

 it was judged prudent to leave a favourite hound_, 

 called Dancer, at home; their first day's hunting 

 from Luttenvorth produced an extraordinary 

 chase, in which both the hounds and horses 

 were so completely tired, that it was deemed ex- 

 pedient to stop that night at Leicester. When 

 they returned the next day to Lutterworth, they 

 were informed that a hound, of a certain descrip- 



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