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CHAPTER V

THE CAT OF ALBION

"Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat,
Where have you been?"
"I've been to London,
To look at the Queen."

THIS beaste is called a Musion, for that he is enimie to Myse and Rattes. He is slye and wittie, and seeth so sharpely that he overcommeth darknes of the nighte by the shyninge lyghte of his eyne. In shape of bodye he is lyke unto a Leoparde, and hathe a great mouthe.