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1802.] 
ce que lon li aprent en-fa Juenece. a ce 
fe tient tous jors. Si que li uns chacent 
fers et li autres beftes champettres. 
autres chafent livoires et bievres et autres 
beftes, li autre font loveneis qui font 
legier et ifnel acorre et aprendre beftes de 
fa bouche, li autre font maltinet grans et 
gros et de m’lt grant force qui chafent 
ors et fenglicrs et lous et toutes grans 
beftes. Neys contre lome fe combat il 
fierement. Et porce trovons nous es an- 
ciennes eftoires que .j. roi avoit efte pris 
par fes ennemis et fi chien fafemblerent 
agrandifme compaignie dautre chiens, et 
fe combatirent fi fort contre ciaus gui le 
roi detenoient que il le refcorent a fine 
force. Er fi na mie grantment que en 
Champaigne affersblerent tuit li chien en 
un led ou il fentrecombatirent fi afpre- 
ment gue a la fin nen efchapa un foul qui 
mors nen fuft a Ja ‘place de terre ou il 
eftoient aflemble. Et porce que ge devifle 
ci-devant que chien aime home pius que 
befte qui foit. Je vos en’ dirai aucune 
chofe de ce gue nos maiftres refitent en 
lor livres. Sachies que quant Facelins * 
fe ocis fon chien ne vel on ques puir 
mangier ne poi ne grant, ains morut a 
doulor. Et la ou li rois liimacus fa mis 
ou feu por fon pechie que il avoit fait. 
Ces chiens fe geta dedens aveuc fon 
feignor et fe laifla cremer aveuc lui, et 
uns autres chiens entra en prifon aveuc 
fon feignor, puis quant lon le geta ou 
flum dou tovire quicort arome, li chien 
fe geta apres, et porta la charoigne fur 
leue tant com il poft. Ces bontes et 
maintes autres font'trovees que chiens ont. 
Mais tant con en adit puet bien foufire. 
Letters V. V1. and VII. 
_ The letters which here follow (in original 
and tranflation) occur in the manufcript of 
Brunetto-Latini, who probably drew up the 
letter to the Count de Provence, by defire of 
the Government of Rome 3 and prepared the 
Count, his friend and proteCtor, with a reply, 
in cafe either of acceptance or refufal, 
Thefe letters appear to be curious, if only 
for the juft ideas difcoverable in them of the 
* Tam at a lofs to know whom Brunetto- 
Latini alludes to by the name of “Facelins. 
As little light am I able to throw upon the 
ftories of the refcued King, and the King Ly- 
JSimathus 5 or that of the prifoner thrown into 
the Tyber, and, as I fuppofe my author tells 
his correfpondent, faved ,by means of his 
dog. The readers of the Monthly Magazine 
' would certainly think themfelves obliged to 
_ any gentkeman that fhould point out the au- 
thors, (nos maifires, my author ftyles them), 
«who have related thefe anecdotes ; and no 
ene more than his‘tranflator, 
MONTHLY Mac, No, 36, 
From the Port-folioof a Man of Letters. 
‘preferve 
Bot 
rights of man and good government. Brunet- 
Latin could not -poflibly have acquired thefe 
notions in England at the Court of Henry the 
Third, for though AZagna Charta had been 
long figned, and had been feveral times ton- 
firmed by that Monarch, yet the people of 
this country remained in a fate of the moft 
abject flavery under the feudal fyftem: in- 
deed, Italy feems to have been the only foil, 
wherein, during the thirteenth century, 
freedom flourifhed like a fair flower amongft 
the loathfome weeds of a defpotic hierarchy 
under the Popes; Monfeignor Lapoftoille de 
Rome, as the Pope is elfewhere ftyled by my - 
author. 
The Italians of that age appear to 
have been, in the words of Metattafio, com- 
pagui delle leggi e non feguaci, the friends, and 
not the flaves of the laws. [The Tranjlator.] 
Letter V. 
To the Hich and Mighty Lord, my Lord 
Charles Count of Anjou and Provence, 
the Governors and Gouncillors of Rome 
fend Health and Increafe of Honour. 
Whereas man being defirous of liberty, 
which is the primary gift of nature, is 
commonly unwilling to wear the yoke of 
flavery; yet, neverthelefs, through the de- 
prayed difpofitions and proneneis to evil 
to be found amongft too large a part of 
mankind, there arifts a neceflity tor re- 
ftraint and punifhment, as otherwife the: 
deftruction of all human fociety muft ine- 
vitably follow: ‘To this end governments _ 
have been inftituted and governors ap- 
pointed, that good fubjects might be en- 
couraged and rewarded, and bad difcoun- 
tenanced and punifhed ; for itis reafonable 
that natural rights be regulated by juttice, ' 
and liberty put under the controul of 
good order. Now being convinced of the 
corruptnefg and difhculty of the times we 
live in, we are defirous, agreeably to our 
franchife, to. make choice of a fit go- 
vernor who fhould protect this our city of 
Rome from the incroachments of foreign- 
ers, and preferve to our citizens their per- 
fons and properties ; and, as if by divine 
admonition, have chofen you, Sire, from 
amcneft many wife and brave men as the 
moit proper one for this purpofe': we 
therefore, with the common content of 
our fellow-citizens, do appoimt you to 
be Senator and Governor of Rome, for 
and during the fpace of one whole year 
next enfuing the day of All Saints. We 
welk know, and it. is generally believed, 
that you will deliberately judge, and ad- 
minifter juftice in mercy, not {paring ta 
ule the fword of the law againft all mif- 
doers. Wethen, Sire, being defirous to 
peace. and concord, as well 
amongf great as fmali, do beg and en- 
cere treat 
