84 PRINCELY PLEASURES. 
one place, hoow he would pynch in anoother 
to get free: that if he wear taken onez, then 
what shyft, with byting, with clawing, with 
roring, torsing, and tumbling, he would work 
to wynde hymself from them; and when he 
was lose, to shake hiz earz twyse or thryse, 
wyth the blud and the slaver aboout hiz 
fiznamy, was a matter of a goodly relief’— 
In 1600, under James I, Sir John Da- 
vington, the then Master of the Bears and 
Dogs, and who was rewarded with a fee of a 
farthing a day, was commanded, on a short 
notice, to exhibit before the Queen, in the 
Tilt-yard; but not having a proper stock of 
Bears, (apparently, on account of a partial dis- 
usage,) he was obliged to apply, for help, to 
Edward Alleyn, afterward founder of Dul- 
wich College, and then Keeper of the King’s 
Wild Beasts, and Master of the Royal Bear, 
Garden on the Bankside, Southwark ; and to 
Philip Henslow, the owner, or lessee, of the 
Garden. But so much for the antiquity and 
ancient dignity of Bear-baiting in England ; 
and, as to the nature of the Old and New 
Bear Gardens, which adjoined each other, i 
the district, honour, or liberty of Paris Gar- 
