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which is in them surmounteth all beleefe, the fast holde which they take 

 with their teeth exceedeth all credit, three of them against a Beare, fowre 

 against a Lyon are sufficient, both to try masteryes with them and vtterly 

 to ouermatch them. Which Henri/ the senenth of that name, King of 

 England (a Prince both politique & warlike) perceauing on a certaine 

 time (as the report runneth) commaunded aU such dogges (how many 

 soeuer they were in number) should be hanged, beyng deepely displeased, 

 and conceauing great disdaine that an yll faured rascall curre should with 

 such violent villany, assault the valiaunt Lyon king of all beastes. An 

 example for all subiects worthy remembraunce, to admonishe them that 

 it is no aduantage to them to rebeU against y^ regiment of their ruler, 

 but to keepe them within the limits of Loyaltie. I reede an history 

 aunswerable to this of the selfe same Henry, who hauing a notable and an 

 excellent fayre Falcon, it fortuned that the kings Falconers, in the 

 presence and hearing of his grace, highly commended his Maiesties 

 Falcon, saying that it feared not to intermeddle with an Eagle, 

 it was so venturous a byrde and so mighty, which when the King 

 harde, he charged that the Falcon should be killed without delay, 

 for the selfe same reason (as it may seeme) which was rehersed in 

 the coclnsion of the former history concerning the same king. This dogge 

 is called, in like maner, Cathenarius, a Cathena, of the chaine wherwith 

 he is tyed at the gates, in y'= daytime, least beyng lose he should doe 

 much mischiefe and yet might giue occasion of feare and terror by his 

 bigge barcking. And albeit Cicero in his oration had Pro. S. Ross, be of 

 this opinion, that such Dogges as barcke in the broade day light shoulde 

 haue their legges broken, yet our countrymen, on this side the seas for 

 their carelessnes of lyfe setting all at cinque and sice, are of a contrary 

 iudgement. For theefes roge vp and down in euery corner, no place is free 

 from them, no not y*^ prince's pallace, nor the country mans cotage. In 

 the day time they practise pilfering, picking, open robbing, and priuy 



