first one way, and then another, and having assured 

 himself of two, because he findeth not the tracke 

 of what he hunteth for, without more adoe, fure- 

 ously betakes himselfe to the third ; he is enforced 

 to confesse, that such a dog must necessarily dis- 

 course thus with himselfe, " I have followed my 

 Masters footing hitherto, hee must of necessity 

 passe by one of these three wayes ; it is neither 

 this nor that, then consequently hee is gone this 

 other." And by this conclusion or discourse 

 assuring himselfe, comming to the third path, hee 

 useth his sense no more, nor sounds it any longer, 

 but by the power of reason suffers himselfe violently 

 to be caried through it. This meere logicall 

 tricke, and this use of divided and conjoyned 

 propositions, and of the sufficient numbring of 

 parts : Is it not as good, that the dog knew it by 

 himselfe, as by Trapezuntius his logicke ? Yet 

 are not beasts altogether unapt to be instructed 

 after our manner. We teach Blackebirds, Starlins, 

 Ravens, Piots, and Parots to chat ; and that 

 facilitie we perceive in them, to lend us their 

 voyce so supple, and their wind so tractable, that 

 so wee may frame and bring it to a certaine 

 number of letters and silables, witnesseth, they 

 have a kind of inward reason, which makes them 

 so docile, and willing to learne. I thinke every 

 man is cloied and wearied, with seeing so many 

 apish and mimmike trickes, that juglers teach 



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