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such tyme as there is game offered. Other some so soone as they smell 

 out the place where the beast lurcketh, to bewray it immediately by 

 their importunate barcking, notwithstanding it be farre of many furlongs 

 cowchyng close in his cabbyn. And these Dogges the younger they 

 be, the more wantonly barcke they, and the more liberally, yet 

 oftimes without necessitie, so that in them, by reason of theyr young 

 yeares and want of practise, small certaintie is to be reposed. For con- 

 tinuance of tyme, and experience in game, ministreth to these houndes 

 not onely cunning in running, but also (as in the rest) an assured fore- 

 sight what is to bee done, principally, being acquainted with their 

 masters watchwordes, eyther in reuoking or imboldening them to serue 

 the game. 



Of the Dogge called the Gasehounde, in 

 Latine Agaseus. 



THis kinde of Dogge which pursueth by the eye, preuayleth little, or 

 neuer a whit, by any benefite of the nose that is by smelling, but 

 excelleth in perspicuitie and sharpenesse of sight altogether, by the 

 vertue whereof, being singuler and notable, it hunteth the Foxe and the 

 Hare. Thys Dogge will choose and seperate any beast from among 

 a great flocke or hearde, and such a one will it take by election as is 

 not lancke, leane and hollow, but well spyed, smoothe, full, fatte, 

 and round, it foUowes by the direction of the eyesight, which in deede 

 is cleere constant, and not uncertaine, if a beast be wounded and gone 

 astray this Dogge seeketh after it by the steadfastnes of the eye, if it 

 chaunce peraduenture to retume and be mingled with the residue of the 

 flocke, this Dogge spyeth it out by the vertue of his eye, leaning the 

 rest of the cattell vntouched, and after he hath set sure sight up 6 

 it, he seperateth it from among the company and hauing so done neuer 



