. Catoninetales; a domestic epic. Cat-god, Purrsepolis. FIRST FYTTE NOTE BY THE EDITOR The pedigreeable portion of the fore-going fytte appearsto have been borrowed from or at least suggested by anold poem of the sixteenth century, by Lydius Cattus, putafterwards into Dutch by one Jacob Cat, Cats, Catts, orCatz, for the spelling cat-like is various. The Fight tocome follows the account of an affair with the Catti, afterthe Commentaries of Cassar, as translated by the Frenchhistorian, Catrow; and is in some measure an imitationof the Galeomnomachia of Theo. From an ancient monument
. Catoninetales; a domestic epic. Cat-god, Purrsepolis. FIRST FYTTE NOTE BY THE EDITOR The pedigreeable portion of the fore-going fytte appearsto have been borrowed from or at least suggested by anold poem of the sixteenth century, by Lydius Cattus, putafterwards into Dutch by one Jacob Cat, Cats, Catts, orCatz, for the spelling cat-like is various. The Fight tocome follows the account of an affair with the Catti, afterthe Commentaries of Cassar, as translated by the Frenchhistorian, Catrow; and is in some measure an imitationof the Galeomnomachia of Theo. From an ancient monument inPusse Church, Gironde. SECOND FYTTE 19 THE FIGHT WITH THE DOG By biting and scratching dogs and cats come together. Proverb. TyHEN we got home from his funeral Kok Robyn came from the door : Quoth he— I know I have lost a life, But my quoter says 8 lives more ;So, rubbing his ears against our legs,Went purring our steps before. And now would you learn how Kok Robyn Again hath lost his life,It was all along of his hob-nobbin With a lady not his like Atropos scissors can shear : Though my verse requires a knife. This Lady Katte was a nigh neighbour, A Bywater by name ;Wherefore it happend that by water Our Kat his end well this end did him become : May my taile prove the same ! SECOND FYTTE Kok Robyn, I 11 own, had a character For wandering out o nights,Whereat no doubt, if some were glad, Some might not like such who can stand in the window way Of an honest Kats delights ? That ugliest Dog of Smiths you know,Half bloodhound a
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