Englijhe Dogges. 5 



Badger in such sort, that eyther they teare them in pieces with theyr 

 teeth beyng in the bosome of the earth, or else hajle and pull them 

 perforce out of their lurking angles, darke dongeons, and close canes, or 

 at the least through coceued feare, driue them out of their hollow har- 

 bours, in so much that they are compelled to prepare speedy flight, and 

 being desirous of the next (albeit not the safest) refuge, are otherwise 

 taken and intrapped with snares and nettes layde oner holes to the same 

 purpose. But these be the least in that kynde called Sagax. 



Of the Dogge called a Bloudhounde in 

 Latine Sanguinarms. 



THe greater sort which serue to hunt, hauing lippes of a large syze 

 & eares of no small lenght, doo, not onely chase the beast whiles 

 it liueth (as the other doo of whom mencion abone is made) but beyng 

 dead also by any maner of casualtie, make recourse to the place where it 

 lyeth, hauing in this poynt an assured and infallible guyde, namely, the 

 sent and sauour of the blond sprinckled heere and there vpon the ground. 

 For whether the beast beyng wounded, doth notwithstanding enioye life, 

 and escapeth the handes of the huntesman, or whether the said beast 

 beyng slayne is conuayed clenly out of the parcke (so that there be 

 some signification of bloud shed) these Dogges with no lesse faciUtie 

 and easinesse, then auiditie and greedinesse, can disclose and bewray the 

 same by smelling, applying to their pursuit, agilitie and nimblenesse, with- 

 out tediousnesse, for which consideration, of a singuler specialitie they 

 deserned to bee called Sangmnarij bloudhounds. And albeit peraduen- 

 ture it may chaunce, (As whether it chaunceth sealdome or sometime I am 

 ignorant) that a peece of fleshe be subtily stolne and conningly conuayed 

 away with such prouisos and precaueats as thereby all apparaunce of 

 bloud is eyther preuented, excluded, or concealed, yet these kinde of 



