10 A treatife of 



Harte, the Dowe, the Foxe, and other beastes of semblable kinde ordained 

 for the game of hunting. But more or lesse, each one according to the 

 measure and proportion of theyr desire, and as might and habilitie of 

 theyr bodyes will permit and suffer. For it is a spare and bare kinde of 

 Dogge, (of fleshe but not of bone) some are of a greater sorte, and some 

 of a lesser, some are smooth skynned & some are curled, the bigger 

 therefore are appoynted to hunt the bigger beasts, & the smaller 

 serue to hunt the smaller accordingly. The nature of these dogges I 

 find to be wonderful by y' testimonial! of histories. For, as John 

 Froisart the Historiographer in his 4. lib. reporteth. A Grehound of King 

 Eichard, the second y' wore the Crowne and bare the Scepter of the 

 Eealme of England, neuer knowing any man, beside the Kings person, 

 whe Kenry Duhe of Lancaster came to the castle of Flinte to take King 

 Bicharde. The Dogge forsaking his former Lord & master came to 

 Duke Henry, fawned npon him with such resemblaunces of goodwyll 

 and conceaued affection, as he fauoured King Richarde before: he 

 followed the Duke, and vtterly left the King. So that by these 

 manifest circumstances a man myght iudge this Dogge to haue bene 

 lightened wyth the lampe of foreknowledge & vnderstading, touch- 

 yng his olde masters miseryes to come, and vnhappinesse nye at hand, 

 which King Richarde himselfe euidently perceaued, accounting this 

 deede of his Dogge a Prophecy of his ouerthrowe. 



Of the Dogge called the Leuiner, or Lyemmer 

 in Latine Lorarius. 



ANother sort of dogges be there, in smelling singuler, and in 

 swiftenesse incomparable. This is (as it were) a myddle kinde 

 betwixt the Harier and the Grehounde, as well for his kinde, as for 

 the frame of his body. And it is called in latine Leuuiarius, a Leuitate, 



