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skilfully, namely resistaunce in fighting if he be not onermatched, or 

 else swiftnesse & readrnesse in running away, if he be vnable to buckle 

 with the dogge that would faine have a snatch at his skinne This kinde 

 of dogge is also called, 



In latine Cants Lunarius, in Englishe 

 the Mooner. 



Because he doth nothing else but watch and warde at an ynche, wasting 

 the wearisome night season without slombering or sleeping, bawing & 

 wawing at the Moone (that I may vse the word of Nonius) a qualitie 

 in mine opinion straunge to consider. This kinde of dogge is also 

 called, 



In latine Aquarius in Englishe a water drawer. 



And these be of the greater and the waighter sort drawing water out 

 of wells and deepe pittes, by a wheele which they tume rounde about 

 by the moning of their burthenous bodies. This kinde of dogge ia 

 called in like maner. 



Cam's Sarcinarius in Latine, and may aptly be eng- 

 lished a Tynckers Curre. 



Because with marueUous pacience they beare bigge budgett^s fraught 

 with Tinckers tooles, and mettall meete to mend kettles, porrige pottes, 

 skellets, and chafers, and other such like trumpery requisite for their 

 occupacion and loytering trade, easing him of a great burthen which 

 otherwise he himself e should carry vpon his shoulders, which condition 

 hath challenged vnto them the foresaid name. Besides the qualities 

 which we haue already recounted, this kind of dogges hath this prin- 

 cipal! propertie ingrafted in them, that they loue their masters liberally, 

 and hate straungers despightfully, wherevpon it followeth that they are 

 to their masters, in traueOing a singular safgard, defending them force- 

 ably, from the inuasion of villons and theefes, preserning their lyfes from 

 losse, and their health from hassard, theyr fleshe from hacking and 



