Harvard Classics
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Holinshed’s Chronicles (Ch. XV), by William Harrison
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A writer of Elizabethan times said that no other country had as many dogs as England. Once Henry VII ordered all mastiffs to be hung because they "durst presume to fight against the lion," England's regal beast. (Volume 35, Harvard Classics)