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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13441	A dog of vvar, or, The trauels of Drunkard, the famous curre of the Round-Woolstaple in Westminster His seruices in the Netherlands, and lately in France, with his home returne. By Iohn Taylor. The argument and contents of this discourse is in the next page or leafe.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1628 (1628)	STC 23748; ESTC S111423	5,219	47

a word or twaine How this Dogge was distressed His Master being wounded dead Shot cut and slash'd from heele to head Thinke how he was opressed To lose him that he loued most And be vpon a forreigne Coast Where no man would Releiue him He lick'd his Masters wounds in loue And from his Carkas would not moue Although the fight did grieue him By chaunce a Soldier passing by That did his Masters Coate espy And quick away he tooke it But Drunkard followed to a Boate To haue againe his Masters Coate Such theft he could not brooke it So after all his woe and wrack To Westminster he was brought back A poore halfe starued Creature And in remembrance of his cares Vpon his back he closely weares A Mourning Coate by nature Liue Drunkard sober Drunkard liue I know thou no offence wilt giue Thou art a harmeles dumb thing And for thy loue I 'le freely grant Rather then thou shouldst euer want Each day to giue thee somthing For thou hast got a good report Of which ther 's many a Dog comes short And very few Men gaine it Though they all dangers brauely bide And watch fast fight runne goe and ride Yet hardly they Attaine it Some like Dominicall Letters goe In Scarlet from the top to toe Whose vallour's talke and smooke all Who make God sink'em their discourse Refuse Renounce or Dam that 's worse I wish a halter Choake all Yet all their talke is Bastinado Strong Armado Hot Scalado Smoaking Trinidado Of Canuasado Pallizado Of the secret Ambuscado Boasting with Brauado If Swearing could but make a Man Then each of these is one that can With Oathes an Army scatter If Oathes could conquer Fort or Hold Then I presume these Gallants could With Braggs a Castle batter Let such but thinke on Drunkards fame And note therewith their merits blame How both are vniuersall Then would such Coxcombs blush to see They by a Dog outstrip'd should be Whose praise is worth rehersall The times now full of danger are And we are round ingadg'd in warre Our Foes would faine distresse vs Yet many a stubborne mizer knaue Will giue no Coyne his Throat to saue If he were stor'd like Cressus These hidebound Varlets worse then Turks Top full with Faith but no Good workes A crew of fond Precise-men In factions and in emulation Caterpillers of a Nation Whom few esteeme for wise men But leauing such to mend or end Back to the Dogge my Verse doth bend Whose worth the subiect mine is Though thou a doggs life here dost leade Let not a doggs death strike thee dead And make thy fatall Finis Thou shalt be Stellifide by me I 'le make the Dog-star wayte on thee And in his roome I 'le seate thee When Soll doth in his Progresse swindge And in the Dog-daies hotly sindge He shall not ouer heate thee So honest Drunkard now adue Thy praise no longer I 'le pursue But still my loue is to thee And when thy life is gon and spent These Lines shall be thy Monument And shall much seruice doe thee I lou'd thy Master so did all That euer knew him great and small And he did well deserue it For he was honest valient good And one that manhood vnderstood And did till death preserue it For whose sake I 'le his Dog prefer And at the Dogge at Westminster Shall Drunkard be a Bencher Where I will set a worke his chapps Not with bare bones or broken scapps But Victualls from my Trencher All those my Lines that Ill digest Or madly doe my meaning wrest In malice or derision Kinde Drunkard preethee bite them all And make them reele from wall to wall With Wine or Maults incision I know when foes did fight or parle Thou valiantly wouldst grin and snarle Against an Army aduerse Which made me bold with rustick Pen Stray here and there and back agen To blaze thy fame in mad Verse It was no Auaritious scope Or flattry or the windy hope Of any fee or stipend For none nor yet for all of these But only my poore selfe to please This mighty Volume I Pen'd ANNO. This Storie 's writ the day and yeare That Seacoales were exceeding deere THus the old Prouerbe is fulfilled A Dogge shall haue his day And this Dogge hath not out liu'd his Reputation but to the perpetuall renowne of himselfe and good example of his owne begotten Puppies he hath his bright day of Fame perspicuously shining I read in Anthony Gueuaroa his Golden Epistles that the Great Alexander buried his Horse that the Emperour Augustus made a stately Monument for his Parrot and that Heliogabalus did embaulmne and intombe his Sparrow Happy were those Creatures in dying before their Masters I could with all my heart haue been glad that Drunkards fortune had been the like vpon the condition that I had payd for his Buriall But to speake a little of the nature of Beasts and of the seruice and fidelitie of Dogges toward their Masters Quintus Curtius writes that the Elephant whereon Porus the Indian King road in the Battle against Alexander when the King was beaten downe to the ground that the Elephant drew his Master with his Trunke out of the danger of the Fight and so sau'd him A Groome of the Chamber to French King Francis the first was murdered in the Forrest of Fountein Belleau but the said Groome had a Dogge who afterward in the presence of the King all the Court did teare the Murderer in peeces Amongst the Watermen at the Black-Friers there lately was a little Bitch that Whelped or Litter'd in the Lane vnder a bench the Men perceiued that she had more Puppies then she could sustaine did take three of them and cast them into the Thames the water being high but the next day when the water was ebd away the Bitch went downe the staires and found her three drowned Puppies when presently she dig'd a deepe pit in the ground and drew them into it one after an other and then scrap'd the grauell vpon them and so hid them I could produce and relate many of these examples and accidents but they are so frequent and familiar that almost euery man hath either known or heard of the like But chiefely for the Dogge he is in request aboue all Beastes and by and from Dogges our Separatists and Amsterdamians and our Precise dispisers of all honest and laudable Recreations may see their errors For of all the Creatures there are most diuersitie in the shapes and formes of Dogges of all which there are but two sorts that are vsefull for Mans profit which two are the Mastiffe and the little Curre Whippet or House-dogge all the rest are for pleasure and recreation so likewise is the Mastiffe for Beare and Bull But the Water-spaniell Land-spaniell Grey-hound Fox-hound Buck-hound Blood-hound Otter-hound Setter Tumbler with Shough and Dainty my Ladies delicate Fisting hound all these are for pleasure by which we may perceiue that Man is allowed lawfull and honest recreation or else these Dogges had neuer bin made for such vses But many pretty rediculous aspersions are cast vpon Dogges so that it would make a Dogge laugh to heare and vnderstand them As I haue heard a Man say I am as hot as a Dogge or as cold as a Dogge I sweate like a Dogge when indeed a Dogge neuer sweates as drunke as a Dogge he swore like a Dogge and one told a Man once That his Wife was not to be beleeu'd for she wonld lye like a Dog marry quoth the other I would giue twelue pence to see that trick for I haue seene a Dog to lye with his Nose in his Tayle FINIS