32 A treat if e of 



Ilia master, whether it be man, woman, or beast, he drineth them out of 

 the ground, not meddling with any thing which doth belong to the 

 possession and vse of his master, But how much faythfulnes, so much 

 diuersitie there is in their natures, 



^ Which barcke only with free and open ^ 

 For there ) throate but will not bite, f 



be some, 1 Which doe both barcke and byte, t 



C Which bite bitterly before they barcke, J 



The first are not greatly to be feared, because they themselues are 

 fearefull, and fearefuU dogges (as the prouerbe importeth) barcke most 

 vehemently. 



The second are daungerous, it is wisedome to take heede of them be- 

 cause they sounde, as it were, an Alarum of an afterclappe, and these 

 dogges must not be oner much moued or prouoked, for then they take 

 on outragiously as if they were madde, watching to set the print of their 

 teeth in the fleshe. And these kinde of dogges are fearce and eager by 

 nature. 



The thirde are deadly, for they flye upon a man, without vtteraunce of 

 Toyce, snatch at him, and catche him by the throate, and most cruelly 

 byte out colloppes of fleashe. Feare these kind of Curres (if thou bee wise 

 and circumspect about thine owne saf etie) for they be stoute and stubbome 

 dogges, and set vpon a man at a sodden vnwares. By these signes and 

 tokens, by these notes and arguementes our men disceme the cowardly 

 curre from the couragious dogge the bolde from the fearefull, the 

 butcherly from the gentle and tractable, Moreouer they coniecture that 

 a whelpe of an yll kinde is not worthe the keeping and that no dogge 

 can serue the sundry vses of men so aptly and so conueniently as this 

 sort of whom we haue so largely written already. For if any be disposed 

 to drawe the aboue named seruices into a table, what ma more clearely, 

 and with more vehemency of voyce giveth warning eyther of a wasteful! 

 beaste, or of a spoiling theef e than this F who by his barcking (as good as 



