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close, couert, watching eye, layeth his belly to the grounde and 

 so creepeth forward like a worme. When he approcheth neere to 

 the place where the birde is, he layes him downe, and with a marcke 

 of his pawes, betrayeth the place of the byrdes last abode, whereby 

 it is supposed that this kinde of dogge is called InHex, Setter, being 

 in deede a name most consonant and agreable to his quality. The 

 place being knowne by the meanes of the dogge, the fowler immediatly 

 openeth and spreedeth his net, intending to take them, which being done 

 the dogge at the accustomed beeke or vsuall signe of his Master ryseth 

 vp by and by, and draweth neerer to the fowle that by his presence they 

 might be the authors of their owne insnaring, and be ready intangled in 

 the prepared net, which conning and artificiall indeuour in a dogge 

 (being a creature domesticall or householde seruaunt brought vp at home 

 with offalls of the trencher and fragments of victualls) is not much to be 

 maruailed at, seing that a Hare (being a wilde and skippishe beast) was 

 scene in England to the astonishment of the beholders, in the yeare of our 

 Lorde God, 1564 not onely dauncing in measure, but playing with his 

 former feete vppon a tabbaret, and obseruing iust number of strokes (as 

 a practicioner in that arte) besides that nipping & pinching a dogge 

 with his teeth and clawes, & cruelly thumping him with y' force of his 

 feete. This is no trumpery tale, nor trifling toye (as I imagine) and 

 therefore not vnworthy to be reported, for I recken it a requitall of my 

 trauaile, not to drowne in the seas of silence any speciall thing, wherein 

 the prouidence and effectuall working of nature is to be pondered. 



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Of the Dogge called the water Spaniell, or finder, 

 in Latine Aquaticus seumqiiisitor. 



Hat kinde of dogge whose seruice is required in fowling vpon the 

 water, partly through a natorall towardnesse, and partly by 



