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kil the murtherer of his master, if he may get any 

 advantage. Or else by barcking, by howling, by furious 

 jarring and snarring, and suchlike means, betrayeth 

 the malefactour, as desirous to have the death of 

 his aforesaid master rigorouslye revenged/ The desire 

 of 'revenge' or 'justice' is a very human accompani- 

 ment of grief for a loss so incurred, and looks like 

 an overstatement of the case. But Dr Caius probably 

 thought that the constant association of good and 

 evil doing with reward and punishment in the canine 

 mind, worked as it does in the human understanding. 

 Such an instance, ' fortuned within the compass of 

 his memory* in the case of 'the dogge of a certain 

 wayfaring man, travelling from the City of London 

 to the towne of Kingstone, who passing over a good 

 portion of his journey, was assualted and set upon 

 by certaine confederate theefes, lying in waight for 

 the spoyle in Come parcke (Coombe Park), a perillous 

 bottom, compassed about wyth woddes ; ' and also 

 a dog whose sire was English, and whose master was 

 murdered near Paris, which, ' manifestly perceiving 

 that his master was murthered, did both betray the 

 bloudy butcher, and attempted to tear out the villons 

 throate, if he had not soughte meanes to avoyde the 

 revenging rage of the dogge/ 



Wordsworth bears out to the letter the statements 

 of the old Cambridge scholar, that ' the dogge forsaketh 



