This affoorded commendable effects to many works of loue and charity:
but, with the retorted blame, from one to another, it is now wholly
giuen ouer.
Heere, that great Carrack, which Sir Frauncis Drake surprised, in her
returne from the East Indies, vnloded her frayght, and through a
negligent fyring, met with an vnproper ending.
In this towne also dwelleth one Grisling, deafe from a long time,
who, besides his merry conceites, of counterfeyting by signes (like
the Romane Pantomimi) any kinde of occupation or exercise, hath a
strange quality, to vnderstand what you say, by marking the mouing of
your lips, especially if you speake deliberately, of any ordinary
matter, so as (contrary to the rules of nature, and yet without the
helpe of arte) he can see words as they passe forth of your mouth:
and of this I haue caused him to giue often experiments.
And if Plyny now liued, I suppose he would affoord a roome, in his
natural History, to a dogge of this town, who (as I haue learned by
the faithfull report of master Thomas Parkins) vsed daily to fetch
meate at his house there, and to carry the same vnto a blinde
mastiffe, that lay in a brake without the towne: yea, (that more is)
hee would vpon Sundayes conduct him thither to dynner, and, the meale
ended, guide him back to his couch and couert againe.
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