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A treat if e of 



The thirde Seftion of this 

 abridgement. 



Owe followeth in due order and con- 

 venient place oiir Englishe Dogges of the thirde 

 gentle kinde, what they are called to what vse 

 they serue, and what sort of people plant their 

 pleasure in the, which because they neede no 

 curious canuassing and nye syfting, wee meane 

 to bee so much the briefer. 



Of the delicate, neate, and pretty kind of dogges 

 called the Spaniel gentle, or the com- 

 forter, in Latine Melitcsus 

 or Fotor. 



THere is, besides those which wee haue already deliuered, another 

 sort of gentle dogges in this our Englishe soyle but exempted 

 from the order of the residue, the Dogges of this kinde doth CaUimachus 

 call Melitosos, of the Iseland Melita, in the sea of Sicily, (what at this 

 day is named Malta, an Iseland in deede famous and renoumed, with 

 couragious and puisaunt souldiours valliauntly fighting vnder the banner 

 of Christ their vnconquerable captaine) where this kind of dogges had 

 their principal! beginning. 



These dogges are litle, pretty, proper, and fyne, and sought for to 

 satisfie the delicatenesse of daintie dames, and wanton womens wills, in- 

 strumentes of folly for them to play and dally withall, to tryfle away the 

 treasure of time, to withdraw their mindes from more commendable 



