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88 diuerly doth occupie diueres meanes. The eares goe not, the feete heare not, the nailes crye not, neyther doth the tongue cratch or giue any helpe, as doth the office of the nayles. In thoe Cities where thee tame beates doe dwell: they make not Rattes to ketche Hennes, nor Hennes ketche Hares, or Garden wormes ketche Flies, nor Flies ketch Grahoppers, but euery one doth his office. The Catte taketh Mife, the Grey hounde the Hare, the Foxe the Hennes, the Hounde the Foxe, the yong the older The parrowe Hawke flieth at Quailes, the Gohawke at Pheaants, and the Falcon at Partridges. I haue a mall Court, and a little Realme, but for thoe fewe beates of heade that I keepe, they are able to doe eruice, in repect of other Princes, which kepe a rabblement of racals & mierable wretches, with little honor, and great hame. I better like my little and fruitful countrie, than a greater being barren: yea, & I am one of thoe that loue a good eruante, though he be a traunger, as I doe thoe of mine owne countrie. The fruites of our ortcharde are good, and thoe that are broughte farre of are not yll. If we houlde feede of no other but of our owne fruites, we hould eldome fill our bellies: aying, I will none of them bicaue they are none of ours. Then turning to the Moyle, with a certaine