“The mastif curre, bred in Ypswitch towne.
...
Wat. He commeth then of some noble stocke?
Jeff. His father coulde snatche a bullock,
A butcher by his occupacion.”
Harl. Miscell. ix. 3. 31. ed. Park.
and a poem Of the Cardnalle Wolse;
“To se a churle a Bochers curre
To rayne & rule in soche honour,” &c.