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large, the whiche you may make to goe proude in this wyfe. 

 Take two heads of Garlike, half )« ftorie of a beaft which is 

 called Castor^ with the iuyce of Crefleys, and a dozen of the flies 

 called Cantharides^ boyle all thefe together (in a potte holding 

 a pynte) with Mutton, and giue the pottage two or three tymes 

 vnio the bytche to drynke, and flie will not fayle to go proude. 

 And in like manner fliall you make your dogges defirous of the 

 bytche, &c. 



Afterwardes, when you fee that your bytche goeth proude, 

 attende the full of the Moone vntyll it be palled, and then caufe 

 hir to be lyned (if it may be, vnder the Sygnes of Germlnt and 

 Aquarius) for the dogges whiche fhall be engendered vnder 

 those fignes, fliall not be fubiedt vnto madnelTe, and fliall com- 

 monly be more dogges than bytches. 



Alfo fome fay that there is a Starre named ArBure^ and 

 that fuche dogges as are whelped or engendered vnder that 

 Starre, fliall be muche fubied:e vnto madnefTe. In lyke maner 

 you muft vnderflrand dyuers fecretes, wherof the firft is : that of 

 what cogge fo euer a bytche fhall be lyned, the firfte time that 

 fhe goeth proude, and at hir firfl Jitter, whether it be by MaflifFe, 

 Greyhounde, or Hounde, in all hir other lytters whiche flie fhall 

 haue afterwardes, flie wyll alwayes haue one whelpe whiche 

 fliall refemble the dogge that firft lyned hir. ^ And for that caufe 

 you ought to haue good regarde that the firft time flie goeth 

 proude, you caufe hir to be lyned with fome fayre dogge of a 

 goode kynde, for in all the lytters which flie fliall haue after- 

 wardes, there will be fome one which will refemble the firfte. 

 And although now adayes men make fmall account of the firft 

 litter, feyng they are of opinion, that the firft lytter is much giuen 

 to become madde, and are commonly weake and fmall, yet muft 

 you not faile to lyne your bitch e at the firft with a fayre hounde, 

 and of a good kynde, for if (he fhould be lyned with a MaftifFe 

 or a curre, the other litters wil hold the fame race, and yet if you 

 fliould fuffer hir to flyp without lyning, she wil pyne away, and 

 with great payne fliall you recouer hir or make hir fatte againe. 



An other fecrete is, that if yee will haue lyght and hote 



houndes 



