Early Spaniels and Setters 85 



tioned. We may state, however, that this use of the word setter to denote 



the dog used with the net was not followed by later writers, so that it cannot 



be allowed as a specific and accepted name at that period for the dog which 



eventually became known as the setter. Two hundred years later the 



"setting spaniel" was still in use for the net and called by that name, while 



the term setter was coming into general use for the dog employed in a 



similar manner with the gun. We will now give the extract from Dr. Caius 



"Of Englishe Dogges." 



The feconde Section of 

 this difcourfe. 



Of gentle Dogges seruing the hauke, and first of the Spaniell, called in Latine 



Hispaniolus. 



Svch Dogges as feme for fowling I thinke conuenient and requisite to place in 

 this seconde Section of this treatise. These are also to bee reckoned and accounted 

 in the number of the dogges which come of a gentle kind, and of those which seme 

 for fowling. 



There be two f The first findeth game on the land j, 

 sortes ,A.The other findeth game on the water ) 



Such as delight on the land, play their partes, eyther by swiftnesse of foote, or 

 by often questing, to search out and to spying the byrde for further hope of aduan- 

 tage, or else by some secrete signe and priuy token bewray the place where they fall. 



The first kinde of f^l^^j^^^^l^g 

 such serue *- 



The Seconde, { The net, or, traine 



The first kinde haue no peculiar names assigned vnto them, saue onely that 

 they be denominated after the byrde which by naturall appointment he is allotted 

 to take, for the which consideration. 



c u 11 J r For the Falcon) 



Some be called \ ^^^ pheasant \ and such like 



Dogges, [^^^ Partridge J 



The common sort of people call them by one generall word, namely, Spaniells. 

 As though these kinde of Dogges came originally and first of all out of Spaine, The 

 most part of their skynnes are white, and if they be marcked with any spottes, they 

 are commonly red, and somewhat great therewithall, the heares not growing in such 

 thicknesse but that the mixture of them maye easely be perceaued. Othersome of 

 them be reddishe and blackishe, but of that sorte there be but a very few. There is 

 also at this day among vs a newe kinde of dogge brought out of Fraunce (for we 

 Englishe men are maruailous greedy gaping gluttons after nouelties, and couetous 

 cormorauntes of things that be seldom, rare, straunge, and hard to get). And they 

 bee speckled all ouer with white and black, which mingled colours incline to a 

 marble blewe, which bewtifyeth their skines and affordeth a seemely show of 

 comlynesse. These are called French dogges as is aboue declared already. 



