The firft Seclion of this 

 difcoiirfe. 



\ The Preamble or entraunce, into 

 this treatise. 



I Wrote unto you (ivell beloued friend 

 Gesner) not many yeares past, a manyfolde his- 

 torie, contayning the diners formes and figures 

 of Beastes, Byrdes, and Fyshes, the sundry 

 shapes of plantes, and the fashions of Hearbes, 

 &c. 

 I wrote moreouer, vnto you seuerally, a cer- 

 taine abridgement of Dogges, which in your discourse rpon the fourmes 

 of Beastes in the seconde order of mylde and tameable Beastes, 

 where you make mencion of Scottishe Dogges, and in the wynding vp 

 of your Letter written and directed to Doctonr Turner, comprehending 

 a Catalogue or rehersall of your bookes not yet extant, you promised 

 to set forth in print, and openly to publishe in the face of the worlde 

 among such your workes as are not yet come abroade to lyght and 

 sight. But, because certaine circumstaunces were wanting in my 

 breuary of Englishe Dogges (as seemed vnto mee), I stayed the publi- 

 cation of the same, making promise to send another abroade, which 

 myght be commytted to the handes, the eyes, the eares, the mindes, 

 and the iudgements of the Headers. Wherefore that I myght perfourme 

 that preciselye which I promised solempnly, accomplishe my deter- 

 mination, and satisfy yonr expectacion .- which art a man desirons 



