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Store by it. This rauen in a short time being ac- 
quainted to man’s speech, began to speak, and euery 
morning would fly vp to the top of the rostra, or pub- 
lic pulpit for orations, where, turning to the open 
forum and market place, lie would salute and hid 
good morrow to Tibeiius Cmsar, and, after him, to 
Germaiiicus and Drusus, the yong princes, euery 
one by their names ; and anon the people of Rome 
also that passed by. And when he had so don, 
afterwards would flie again to the shoemaker’s shop 
aforesaid. This duty practised, yea, and continued 
for many yeeres together, to the great wonder and 
admiration of all men. Now it fell out so that an- 
other shoemaker who had taken the shop next vnto 
him, either vpon a malicious enuie, or some sudden 
spleene and passion of choler, for that tlie rauen 
chanced to meut a little, and set some spot vpon a 
paire of his shoos, killed the said rauen. Whereat 
the people tooke such indignation, that they, rising 
in an uprore, first drove him out of that street, and 
made that quarter of the city too hot for him, and 
not long after murdered him for it. But contrarie- 
wise, the carkasse of the dead rauen was solemnly 
enterred, and thefunerall performed with all ceremo- 
nial obsequies that could he deuised ; for the corps 
of this bird was bestowed in a coffin, aud the same 
bedecked with chaplets and garlands of rich flowers 
of all sorts, and carried vpon the shoulders of two 
blacke Mores, with minstrels before sounding the 
Haut-hoies, and playing on the fife as far as to the 
