21Z The hooie of Hunting 



andinfedtes him fodaineJy. And as fone as the brayne feelethit 

 felfe vexed with the fume thereof, the dog tormenteth him felfe 

 continually, and becommeth defperate, as hath often bene feene 

 by experience, the dogges which haue this madnefle, are knowne 

 fundry wayes. Firfte when they runne, they rayfe their tayles 

 right vp, the which other dogges doe not, that be ficke of other 

 kyndes of madnefle. Agayne, they runne vpon any thing that 

 ftandeth before them : as well beaftes, as other thinges, and haue 

 no refpedl, where nor which way they run, whether it be through 

 Ryuers, pondes, or waters. Alfo their mouth will be very black, 

 and will haue no fome nor froth in it. They endure not in this 

 kynde of madnefle, aboue three or foure dayes at the moil, by 

 reafon of the vntollerable payne and trauell thereof. When they 

 maye no longer endure, they howle a kynde of howling in the 

 throate, and hoarcely, but not like the howling of a dogge that 

 were founde. All beaftes which they fhall byte, as well dogges 

 as other, if they drawe bloude on them, will doubtlefle runne 

 madde alfo. 



The fecond kinde of madnefle, is called running madnefle, 

 and is likewife vncureable. But the byting thereof is not fo ve- 

 nemous, nor fo dangerous for other beaftes, as the firft is, for it 

 vexeth not continually without intermiflion. And when a dog 

 is madde of this kynde of madnefle, the firft dogge which he by- 

 teth in the forenoone, dothe beare with him all hisvenome, and will 

 be in great daunger to runne madde : but as many as he byteth 

 afterwardes, may efcape from running madde thereof. When 

 dogges haue this madnefle, they runne not vpon beaftes, nor 

 vpon men, but onely vppon dogges, and harken as they goe to 

 beare the barking of other dogges, to the ende they may go fliake 

 them and byte them. They runne in the high wayes, and caft 

 their tayles betwene their legges, trotting like a Foxe, and may 

 continue thus nyne monethes, but not paft. Thefe two kyndes 

 of madnefle are more daungerous than all the reft, and when a 

 dogge will become madde, of any of thefe two fortes of mad- 

 nefle, you may knowe by thefe tokens. 



Firft they eate verie little, they will fmell vpon other dogs, 



and 



