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Gave hym his mortall wounde,

Chaunged to a dere,

The story doth appere,

Was chaunged to an harte:

So thou, foule cat that thou arte,

The selfe same hounde

Myght thee confounde,

That his owne lord bote,

Myght byte asondre thy throte!

Of Inde the gredy grypes

Myght tere out all thy trypes!

Of Arcady the beares

Myght plucke awaye thyne eares!

The wylde wolfe Lycaon

Byte asondre thy backe bone!

Of Ethna the brennynge hyll,

That day and nyghte brenneth styl,

Set in thy tayle a blase.

That all the world may gase

And wonder upon thee!

From Ocyan the greate sea

Unto the Isles of Orchady;

From Tyllbery ferry

To the playne of Salysbery!

So trayterously my byrde to kyll,

That never ought thee evyll wyll!"

Before this tremendous anathema maranatha, all ordinary cursing, the mere "current compliments of theological parting," soften into insignificance. Was there ever such a wanton waste of wrath! Was ever a trivial sin so exalted by punishment! Not only is poor Gyb doomed to ignite his tail at Etna, and