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that no drndge nor skullion can doe the feate more cunningly. Whom 

 the popular sort herevpon call Tumespets, being the last of all those 

 which wee haue first mencioned. 



Of the Dogge called the Daunser, in Latine 

 Saltator or Tympanista. 



THere be also dogges among vs of a mungrell kind which are 

 taught and exercised to daunce in measure at the musicall sounde of 

 an instrument, as, at the iust stroke of the drombe, at the sweete 

 accent of the Cyterne, & tuned strings of the harmonious Harpe 

 showing many pretty trickes by the gesture of their bodies. As to stand 

 bolte upright, to lye flat vpon the grounde, to turne rounde as a ringe 

 holding their tailes in their teeth, to begge for theyr meate, and sundry 

 such properties, which they leame of theyr vagabundicall masters, whose 

 instrumentes they are to gather gaine, withall in Citie, Country, Towne, 

 and Village. As some which carry olde apes on their shoulders in 

 colouied iackets to moue men to laughter for a litle lucre. 



Of other Dogges, a short conclusion, wonderfully in- 

 gendred \nthin the coastes of this country. 



f The first bred of a bytch \ In Latine 

 \ and a woKe, / Lyciscu^. 



Three sortes ) The second of a bytyche I In Latine 

 of them, "S and a foxe, ( Laccena. 



/ The third of a beare and \ In Latine 

 V^ a bandogge, J Vrcanz'.s. 



OF the first we hane none naturally bred within the borders of Eng- 

 land. The reason is for the want of wolfes, without whom no such 

 kinde of dog can bee ingendred. Againe it is deliuered unto thee in this 

 discourse, how and by what meanes, by whose benefitte, and within what 



