"Yer see we hed a purty hevy dew last night, but the sun waz up so high that the grass waz all dry at eight o'clock.

An hevy burthen light to here, A wikked wawe awey to were.

Like the Mastiff, of which it is a smaller form, it is a descendant of the "Alaunt," Mastive, or Bandog, described by Dr. Caius, who states that "the Mastyve or Bandogge is vaste, huge, stubborne, ougly and eager, of a hevy, and burthenous body, and therefore but of little swiftnesse, terrible and frightful to beholde, and more fearce and fell than any Arcadian curre.

God have mercye on thy innocent sowle, Which amonges innocentes, I am sure, hath a place, Or ellys thy sowle ys yn a hevy case; Ye, ye, and moo foolys many [a] one, For foolys be alyve, Love, though thou be gone.