I will tell you newes at which I knowe you will greatly maruell and it is this. On a tyme being appointed to make a batterie after manie shootes it chaunced by a certaine occasion that a peece beeing discharged did ryse vppe in such sorte as the mouth thereof went into the grounde, and in the meane while that I was busie to prouide labourers to bring the Peece with leauers vnto his place, a lit∣tle Dogge goeing by (as it chaunced) did smell vnto the mouth of the same Peece, and by so doeing was sodainely faste ioyned to the mouth of that peece, and im∣mediatlie after drawne into the concauitie of the sayde Gunne, which thing when the standers by hadde seene, some of them ranne to helpe the sayde dogge, and al∣though they perceaued him to bee drawne in euen almost to the farthest ende of the said concauitie, they pulled him out being almost dead, and what became of him afterwardesPage  40I know not, but as I thinke he dyed. Now tell me what you thinke of this?

I doe not maruell at this thing, for after a peece hath bin oftentimes togeather shot in, it waxeth hot, and through that heate (as it hath bin saide in the fift Colloquie) that peece is made attractiue euen as a cupping glasse which is made hot with tow burned in the same,* and therefore it is no maruaile that the dogge was drawne into the concauitie of that peece for I beleeue that when a peece is very hotte, if any one will goe vnto it and set his bare bellie to the mouth thereof, he shall sticke so fast vnto that place, that he shall not be able without greate difficultie to goe from thence, and in such a case a peece will be made much more attractiue if his touchhole be close stopped.

Your reasons doe please me well.