Englijhe Dogges. 1 1 



of lyghtnesse, and therefore may well be called a lyght hounde, it is 

 also called by this worde Lorarius, a Loro, wherewith it is led. This 

 Dogge for the excellency of his conditions, namely smelling and swift 

 running, doth followe the game with more eagemes, and taketh the pray 

 with a ioUy qtiicknes. 



Of the Dogge called a Tumbler, in 

 Latine Vertagus. 



THis sorte of Dogges, which compaaseth all by craftes, frandes, 

 subtelties and deceiptes, we Englishe men call Tvmblers, because in 

 hunting they turne and tumble, winding their bodyes about in circle wise, 

 and then fearcely and violently venturing up6 the beast, doth soddenly 

 gripe it, at the very entrance and mouth of their receptacles, or closets 

 before they can recouer meanes, to saue and succour themselves. This 

 dogge vseth another craft and subteltie, namely, when he runneth into a 

 warren, or setteth a course about a connybnrrough, he huntes not after 

 them, he frayes them not by barcking, he makes no countenance or 

 shadow of hatred against them, but dissembling friendship, and pretend- 

 ing fauour, passeth by with silence and quietnesse, marking and noting 

 their holes diligently, wherin (I warrant you) he will not be ouershot 

 nor deceaued. When he commeth to the place where Connyes be, of a 

 certaintie, he cowcheth downe close with his belly to the groud. Pro- 

 vided alwayes by his skill and polisie, that y ' the winde bee neuer with 

 him but against him in such an enterprise. And that the Connyes 

 spie him not where he lurcketh. By which meanes he obtaineth the sent 

 and sauour of the Connyes, carryed towardes him with the wind & the 

 ayre, either going to their holes, or coming out, eyther passing this way, 

 or running that way, and so prouideth by his circumspection, that the 

 seUy simple Conny is debarred quite from his hole (which is the hauen 



