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dogges by a certaine direcion of an inwarde assured notyce and priuy 

 marcke, pursue the deede dooers, through long lanes, crooked reaches, 

 and weary wayes, without wandring awry out of the limites of the land 

 whereon those desperate purloynera prepared their speedy passage. Tea, 

 the natures of these Dogges ia such, and so effectuall is their foresight, 

 that they cfi bewray, seperate, and pycke them out from among an in- 

 finite multitude and an innumerable company, creepe they neuer so 

 farre into the thickest thronge, they will finde him out notwith- 

 standyng he lye hidden in wylde woods, in close and ouergrowen 

 groues, and lurcke in hollow holes apte to harbour such vngracious 

 guestes. Moreouer, although they should passe ouer the water, thinking 

 thereby to auoyde the pursute of the houndes, yet will not these dogges 

 giue ouer their attempt, but presuming to swym through the streame, 

 perseuer in their pursute, and when they be arriued and gotten the 

 furthen bancke, they hunt yp and downe, to and fro runne they, from 

 place to place shift they, vntU they haue attained to that plot of 

 grounde where they passed ouer. And this is their practise, if perdie 

 they canot at y' first time smelling, finde out the way which the deede 

 dooers tooke to escape. So at length get they that by arte, cunning, 

 and dilligent indeuour, which by fortune and lucke they cannot otherwyse 

 ouercome. In so much that it seemeth worthely and wisely written by 

 Mliamus in his firte book and xxxiv. Chapter. t«£v^v^vt;;^;i)v ■^a.ihia.t ^^x'^'X,- 

 to bee as it were naturally instilled and powered into these kinde of 

 dogges. For they wyll not pause or breath from their pursute vntill such 

 tyme as they bee apprehended and taken that committed the facte. The 

 owners of such houndes vse to keepe them in close and darke channells 

 in the day time, and let them lose at liberty in the night season, to 

 th' intent that they myght with more courage and boldnesse practise 

 to follow the fellon in the euening and solitarie houres of darkenesse, 

 when such yll disposed varlots are principally purposed to play theyr 



