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hewing with snch like desperate danngers, For which consideration they 

 are meritoriously tearmed, 



In Latine Canes defettsores defending dogges 

 in our mother toungue. 

 If it chaunce that the master bee oppressed, either by a multitude, or 

 by the greater violence & so be beaten downe that he lye groueling on 

 the grounde, (it is proued true by experience) that this Dogge forsaketh 

 not his master, no not when he is starcke deade : But induring the force 

 of famishment and the outrageous tempestes of the weather, most 

 vigilantly watcheth and carefully keepeth the deade carkasse many dayea, 

 endeuonring, furthermore, to kil the murtherer of his master, if he may 

 get any advantage. Or else by barcking, by howling, by furious iarring, 

 snarring, and snch like meanes betrayeth the malefactour as desirous to 

 haue the death of his aforesayde Master rigorouslye reuenged. And 

 example hereof fortuned within the compasse of my memory. The Dogge 

 of a certaine wayefaring man trauaUing from the Citie of London directly 

 to the Towne of Kingstone (most famous and renowned by reason of the 

 triumphant coronation of eight seuerall Kings) passing oner a good 

 portion of his iourney was assaulted and set vpon by certaine confederate 

 theefes laying in waight for the spoyle in Comeparcke, a periUous bottom, 

 compassed about wyth woddes to well knowne for the manyfolde 

 murders & mischiefeous robberies theyr committed. Into whose handes 

 this passinger chaunced to fall, so that his iU lucke cost him the price 

 of his lyfe. And that Dogge whose syer was Englishe (which Blondus 

 registreth to haue bene within the banckes of his remebrance) manifestly 

 perceauyng that his Master was murthered (this chaunced not farre from 

 Paris, by the handes of one which was a suiter to the same woma, whom 

 he was a wooer unto, dyd both bewraye the bloudy butcher, and attempted 

 to teare out the viUona throate if he had not sought meanes to auoyde 

 the reuenging rage of the Dogge. In fyers also which fortune in the 



