Englijhe Dogges. 17 



diligent teaching, is indued with that property. This sort is somewhat 

 bigge, and of a measurable greatnesse, hauing long, rough, and curled 

 heare, not obtayned by extraordinary trades, but giuen by natures 

 appointment, yet neuerthelesse (friend Gesner) I have described and 

 set him out in this maner, namely powlde and notted from the 

 shoulders to the hindermost legges, and to the end of his tayle, 

 which I did for use and customs cause, that beyng as it were 

 made somewhat bare and naked, by shearing of such superfluitie 

 of heare, they might atchiue the more lightnesse, and swiftnesse, 

 and be lesse hindered in swymming, so troublesome and needelesse 

 a burthen being shaken of. This kinde of dogge is properly called 

 Aquaticus, a water spaniel because he frequenteth and hath vsual 

 recourse to the water where all his game & exercise lyeth, namely, 

 waterfowles, which are taken by the helpe & seruice of them, in their 

 kind. And principally duckes and drakes, wherupon he is lykewise 

 named a dogge for the ducke, because in that qualitie he is excellent. 

 With these dogges also we fetche out of the water such fowle as be 

 stounge to death by any venemous worme, we vse them also to bring 

 vs our boultes & arrowes out of the water (missing our marcke) 

 whereat we directed our leuell, which otherwise we should hardly recouer, 

 and oftentimes the restore to vs our shaftes which we thought neuer to 

 see, touche or handle againe, after they were lost, for which circum- 

 staunces they are called Inqnisitores, searchers, and finders. Although 

 the ducke otherwhiles notably deceaueth both the dogge and the master, 

 by dyuing vnder the water, and also by natnrall subtilty, for if any man 

 shall approche to the place where they builde, breede, and syt, the hennes 

 go out of their neastes, offering themselues voluntarily to the hads, as it 

 were, of such as draw nie their neastes. And a certaiae weaknesse of 

 their winges pretended, and infirmitie of their feete dissembled, they go 

 so slowely and so leasurely, that to a mans thinking it were no masteryea 



