SPANIEL.] NATURAL HISTORY. 291 



Sore, Sorel. 



LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 2, 59, 60. 



Sore, a deer of four years old. 



Sorel, a deer of three years. MinsMs Dictionary, ,.*. 



Sow. 



MACBETH, iv. I, 64. 



A sow rooteth and diggeth the earth to get her meat 

 and food, and overturneth and rooteth that she may come 

 with the teeth to mores [roots] and roots. And the young 

 sow conceiveth against the evenness of day and night in 

 springing - time, and farroweth sometime twenty pigs at 

 once, but she eateth all sometime, out-taken the first, for 

 he is most kindly to her, and she giveth him alway the 

 first teat. The Sow is an unclean beast, and a right great 

 glutton, and coveteth and desireth baths, fens and puddles, 

 and resteth herself therein, and waxeth fat. And the 

 seventh part of her meat turneth into hair and blood, and 



into Other Such. Bartholomew (Bertkelei), bk. xviii. 99. 



V. Swine, Boar. 

 Spaniel. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, ii. I, 203-7. 



THE best sort of these dogs came from Spain. 



Minsbeu's Dictionary, s.v. 



THE water-spagnel is taught by his master to seek for 

 things that are lost (by words and tokens), and if he meet 

 any person that hath taken them up, he ceaseth not to 

 bay at him, and follow him, till he appear in his master's 

 presence. They use to shear their hinder parts, that so 

 they may be the less annoyed in swimming. 



I may here also add the land-spagnel attending a hawk 

 who are taught by falconers to retrieve and raise part- 

 ridges. They are for the most part white, or spotted with 

 red Or black. Topsell, " Four-footed Beasts," p. 122. 



