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black-and-white, red-and- white, or liver-hued-and- white ; 

 for, to be all of one colour, as all white, or all blacke, or all 

 red, or all liver-hued, without any other spot, is not so 

 comely in the field, although the dogs, notwithstanding, 

 may be of excellent cunning. His mettall is discerned 

 in his free and untired laboursome ranging, beating a 

 field over and over, and not leaving a furrow untrod- 

 den, or one unsearched, where any haunt is likely to 

 be hidden; and when he doth it, most coragiously and 

 swiftly, with a wanton playing taile, and a busie la- 

 bouring nose, neither desisting nor showing less delight in 

 his labour at night than he did in the morning and his 

 cunning hunting is discerned by his casting about needfully, 

 and running into the wind of the prey he seeketh; by 

 his stillnesse and quietnesse in hunting, without babbling or 

 barking ; but when he is upon an assured and certain haunt, 

 by the manner of his ranging, and when he compasseth a 

 whole field about at the first, and after lesneth and lesneth 

 the circumference, till he have trodden every path, and 

 brought the whole circuit to one point; and by his more tem- 

 perate and leisurely hunting, when he comes to the first 

 scent of the game, sticking upon it, and pricking it out by 

 degrees ; not opening or questing by any means, but whimp- 

 ering and whining to give his master a warning of what he' 

 scenteth, and to prepare himself and his hawke for the 

 pleasure he seeketh; and when he is assured of his game,, 

 then to quest out loudly and freely." 



After describing Spaniels which "delight in plains or 

 the open fields," and others more adapted for covert, he 

 goes' on to say: " There is another sort of Land Spannyels 

 which are called Setters, and they differ nothing from the 

 former, but in instruction and obedience, for these must 

 neither hunt, range, nor retaine, more or less, than as the 

 master appointeth, taking the whole limit of whatsoever 

 they do from the eie or hand of their instructor. They must 

 never quest at any time, what occasion soever may happen, 



