"That young puppy is the best of the Errol bunch," he said.

If you don't give her a new interest," was the sinister and gloomy prophecy, "stealing puppies will very likely become an obsession with her.

'Puppy, that cursed vociferation Betrays thy life and conversation: 30 Coxcombs, an ever-noisy race, Are trumpets of their own disgrace.'

It is stated, however, that puppies of that colour are generally the most promising in all other respects.

These puppies the smaller they be, the more pleasure they provoke as more meete playfellowes for minsing mistrisses to beare in their bosoms, to keepe company withall in their chambers, to succour with sleepe in bed, and nourishe with meate at board, to lie in their lappes, and licke their lippes as they ryde in their waggons, and good reason it should be so, for coursenesse with fynenesse hath

100 He stopp'd, and turning to his train, Thus pertly vents his vaunting strain: 'What blundering puppies are mankind, In every science always blind!