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(lore, and when his master was tlirowne downe the 
Btaires, (called Seal® Gemonise,) would not depart 
from his dead corps, but kept a most pitteous howl- 
ing and lamentation about it, in the sight of a great 
multitude of Romanes that stood round about to see 
the execution; and when one of the companie threw 
the dogge a piece of meat, he straightwaics caried it 
to the mouth of his master lydng dead. JNIoreouer, 
when the carkasse was throwne into the river Ti- 
beris, the same dogge swam after, and made all the 
mean he could to bear it up adote, that it should not 
sink ; and to the sight of this spectacle, and fidclitie 
of the poore dogge to his master, a number of people 
ran forth by hcapes from the citie to tlie water side. 
Certes, the longer we liue, the more things we ob- 
serue and raarke still in these dogges. As for hunt- 
ing, there is not a beast so subtle, so quick, and so 
fine of scent, as is the hound ; he huntetb and follow- 
eth the beaste by the foot, training the hunter that 
leads him by the coder and leash, to the very place 
where the beaste lieth. Hauing once gotten an eie 
of his game, how silent and secret are tliey notwith 
standing ; and yet how significant is their discouerie 
of the beaste vnto the hunter, first with wagging 
their taile, and afterwards witli their nose and snout 
as they doe ; and therefore it is no maruell if, when 
hounds or beagles be ouer old, wearie and blinde, men 
carie them in their armes to hunt, for to wind the 
beaste, and by the very scent of the nose to shew and 
declare where the beaste is at harbour. To prevent 
