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of their hope and the harbour of their health) and fraudulently circum- 

 nented and taken, before they can get the aduantage of their hole. Thus 

 hauing caught his pray he carryeth it speedily to his Master, wayting 

 his Dogges retume in some conuenient lurcking corner. These Dogges 

 are somewhat lesser than the houndes, and they be lancker & leaner, 

 beside that they be somwhat prick eared. A man that shall marke the 

 forme and fashion of their bodyes, may well call them mungrell 

 Grehoundes if they were somwhat bigger. But notwithstanding they 

 counteruaile not the Grehound in greatnes, yet will he take in one 

 dayes space as many Connyes as shall arise to as bigge a burthen, and as 

 heauy a loade as a horse can carry, for deceipt and guile is the instru- 

 ment wherby he maketh this spoyle, which pernicious properties supply 

 the places of more commendable qualities. 



Of the Dogge called the theeuishe Dogge 

 in Latine Canisfurax. 



THe like to that whom we have rehearsed, is the theeuishe Dogge, 

 which at the mandate and byddAg of his master steereth and 

 leereth abroade in the night, hunting Connyes by the ayre, which is 

 leuened with their sauer and conueyed to the sense of smelling by the 

 meanes of the winde blowing towardes him. During all which space of 

 his hunting he wUl not barcke, least he shoulde bee preuidiciall to his 

 owne aduantage. And thus watcheth and snatcheth up in course as 

 many Connyes as his Master wiU suffer him, and beareth them to his 

 Masters standing. The farmers of the countrey and uplandishe dwellers, 

 call this kinde of Dogge a nyght curre, because he hunteth in the darke, 

 But let thus much seeme sufficient for Dogges which serue the game, and 

 disport of hunting. 



