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and their weight, wee perswade ourselves they are
brought forth by some as weighty and important
causes; wee are deceived : They are moved, stirred
and removed in their motions by the same springs
and wards that we are in ours. The same reason that
makes us chide and braule and fall out with any of our
neighbours, causeth a warre to follow betweene Princes;
the same reason that makes us whip or beat a lackey
maketh a Prince (if hee apprehend it) to spoyle and
waste a whole Province. They have as easie a will as
we, but they can doe much more. Alike desires perturbe
both a skinne-worme and an Elephant. Touching
trust and faithfulnesse, there is no creature in the
world so trecherous as man. Our histories report the
earnest pursuit and sharpe chase that some dogges
have made for the death of their masters. King
Pirrhus, finding a dog that watched a dead man, and
understanding he had done so three daies and nights
together, commanded the corps to be enterred and
tooke the dog along with him. It fortuned one day,
as Pirrhus was survaying the generall musters of his
army, the dog perceiving in that multitude the man
who had murthered his maister, loud-barking and with
great rage ran furiously upon him; by which signes
he furthered and procured his masters revenge, which
by way of justice was shortly executed. Even so did
the dogge belonging to Hesiodus, surnamed the wise,
having convicted the children of Canister of Naupactus
of the murther committed on his Masters person.
Another Dogge being appointed to watch a Temple
in Athens, having perceived a sacrilegious theefe to
carrie away the fairest jewels therein, barked at him
so long as he was able, and seeing he could not awaken
the Sextons or Temple-keepers, followed the theefe
whithersoever he went; daie-light being come, he
kept himselfe a loof-off, but never lost the sight' of
him: if he offered him meat, he utterly refused it;
but if any passenger chanced to come by, on them he
fawned, with wagging his taile, and tooke what-ever
they offered him; if the theefe staied to rest himselfe,