Englijhe Dogges. 



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The fourth Seftion of this 



difcourfe 



Dogges of a Course Kind seruing for many Necessary uses, 



called in Latine Canes Rustici, and first of the 



shepherds dogge, called in Latine 



Canis Pastoralis. 



Dogges of r The shepherds dogge -^ 



the courser < The mastiue or > ., • • n 



sort are (Bando-e. Uhe pnncipall. 



~^ He fir ft kinde, namely the Jhepherds 



hounde is very neeessarye and profitable for the 

 auoyding of harmes and inconneniences which 

 may come to men by the means of beastes. The 

 second sort seme to succour against the snares 

 and attemptes of mischiefous men. Our shep- 



' ^__^ herdes dogge is not huge, vaste, and bigge, but 



of an indifferent stature and gro^h, because it hath not to deale with 

 the bloudthyrsty wolf, sythence there be none in England, which happy 

 and fortunate benefite is to be ascribed to the puisaunt Prince Edgar, 

 who to thintent y^ the whole countrey myght be euacnated and quite 

 clered from wolfes, charged & commaunded the welsheme (who were 

 pestered with these butcherly beastes aboue measure) to paye him 

 yearely tribute which was (note the wisedome of the King) three 

 hundred Wolfes. Some there be which write that Ludvjall Prince of 

 Wales paide yeerly to King Edgar three hundred wolves in the name 

 of an exaction (as we haue sayd before.) And that by the meanes 



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