DOG.] NATURAL HISTORY. 87 



the urine of a wood Hound, he shall anon feel sore ache 

 of the guts and of the loins. Also the Hound is envious ; 

 and he gathereth herbs privily, by whom he purgeth him- 

 self with parbraking [vomiting] and casting, and hath envy, 

 and is right sorry, if any man knoweth the virtue of those 

 herbs. Ibid., 27. 



THE tongue of a Dog laid under the great toe within 

 the shoe doth cease the barking of Dogs at the party that 

 so wears the same. 



Lupton, "A Thousand Notable Things," bk. vii. 22. 



IF you pluck out one of the eyes of a black Dog, whiles 

 he is living, and will carry it with you, it will make that 

 no Dogs shall bark at you ; yea, though you walk among 

 them. But it will be more sure, if you put thereto a little 

 of the heart of a wolf. Ibid., 85. 



THE uttermost or last joint of the tail of a young 

 whelp, after he is forty days old, being writ hen off, the 

 same Dog will never be mad. Besides that his tail will 

 be thereby of a comely length. ibid., bk. ii. 45. 



THE teeth of a mad Dog that hath bitten a man or 

 woman, tied in leather, and then hanged at the shoulder, 

 doth preserve and keep the party that bears it, from being 

 bitten of any mad Dog. ibid., bk. iv. 52. 



IF a wood Hound's drivelling fall into the water, it 

 infecteth the water ; and who that drinketh of that water 

 shall be dropsical and wood. 



Bartholomew (Berthelei], bk. vii. 68. 



THE delicate, neat and pretty kind of Dogs called the 

 Spaniel-gentle, or the Comforter [Maltese Dog] : These 

 little Dogs are good to assuage the sickness of the stomach, 

 being oftentimes thereunto applied as a plaster preservative, 

 or borne in the bosom of the diseased and weak person. 

 Moreover, the disease and sickness changeth his place and 

 entereth (though it be not precisely marked) into the Dog, 

 which to be truth experience can testify, for these kind of 

 Dogs sometimes fall sick and sometimes die, without any 

 harm outwardly enforced, which is an argument that the 



