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and when they haue fmelt on them, will fliake and byte them, 

 yet wagging their tayles, and feeming to cherifli them. They 

 figh fore, and fnuffe with their nofes, and looke fydewayes or ouer- 

 thwarts. They are fad and heauie, yet running after butterflyes 

 and other flyes. There are many other apparant tokens which I 

 leaue for breuities fake. When you perceiue them by fuch tokens, 

 fliift them out of the company of other dogs, and fhut them vp, 

 for their breath is infediiue, and may make other dogges madde : 

 for fuch difeafes are taken amongft dogs, as the peftilence is a- 

 mongft men. The other fiue forts of madnefle, are nothing like 

 fo dangerous : for dogs which are ficke of them, do neither runne 

 nor byte. So that I efteeme them rather fickneffes, than mad- 

 neffes, although fundrye huntfmen haue hold opinion, that al the 

 feuen fortes of madnefle were vncurable. But I my felfe haue 

 healed fundry dogs, which haue bin ficke of thefe other fiue kinds 

 of madnefle hereafter mentioned, with the Receiptes which I 

 meane (God willing) to fet down here in wryting. And the faid 

 fiue fundry forts of madnefle are thus named. 



The firft is called the dumme madnefle, the which lieth within the 

 bloud, and is to be known by this note or ligne : The dogges which 

 are mad therof, wil not feed, but hold their mouth wide open, 

 putting their feet into their mouth, as if they had fome bone in their 

 throat, and hide themfelues commonly in moift and freflieft places. 



The feconde is called the falling madnefle, for the dogs which 

 haue it, fal as they go, as if they had the falling euill, or the Saint 

 Johns fycknefle. And the difeafe lyeth in their heades. 



The thirde kynde of madnefle, is called the Lanke madnefle. 

 For the difeafe is within their bodies, and maketh them f kummer 

 fo much, that they become fo lanke, leane, and thynne, that a man 

 may thruft them through with his finger. 



The fourth is called the fleeping madnefle. The which com- 

 meth with a kinde of little wormes, that lye in the mouth of a 

 dogges ftomacke, being there engendered through corruption 

 of humours, the vapors and fumes whereof, doe mount vp into 

 the braynes of a dog, and make him fleepe vnceflantly, fo that 

 commonly they die fleeping. 



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