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1. Dockled sheepe ai'e sayd to bringe forth their lanil)es with 

 most ease and least dainger. 



2. Dodded sheepe beinge infected with either Uce or scabbe 

 cannot soe easily plucke and teare of their woll, but an hom'd 

 sheepe beinge troubled with filth, or (as the sheapherdes say) 

 beinge to blame, will (mth their homes) teare and loose their 

 wolle. 



Usual Markes of ax Ill-thrivixge Sheepe. 

 Imprimis : teeth blacke, wearinge wide, beinge eyther bitted 

 or broken ; the necke sniaU, and tliinne of woiie ; the shoulder 

 lowe, and thinne ; legges longe ; backe sharpe ; buttock tliinne 

 of flesh and wolle ; and the last and speciall marke whearby to 

 knowe a waster is, by the smalhiesse of the tayle, which kinde 

 of sheepe the shepheardes caU candle tayle' sheepe, 



Howe to make oxe Ewe take Axother Lajvibe. 

 It is usuaU amongst sheapherdes (when an ewe that hath 

 plenty of milke chanceth to loose a lambe) to take another 

 ewe's lambe and put it to her to bringe up. Wlien the shep- 

 herd hath this opportunity, his first course is to seeke wheare 

 hee may take a lambe from some ewe that wanteth milke, or 

 else from some olde ewe that is dechninge and scarce able to 

 keepe herself ; or lastly, from some shearinge, thereby to make 

 her a more lofty sheepe. The onely way to efiekt tliis is, first, 

 to hopple the ewe, then take the strainge lambe and rubbe the 

 heade, backe, and buttockes aboute the ewe's yoAver and ma- 

 trix ; then are yow to milke of the ewe's milke upon the backe 

 and buttockes of the lambe, and to rubbe into the lambe's 

 woU with the fingers ; then are yow to suckle the lambe on her 

 so longe as theire is any thmge to gette, or the lambe disposed 

 to sucke ; then in the eveninge are yow to take her and the 

 lambe and to putt them together into some creave[?] or httle 

 narrowe place made for that pm^pose, keeping them togeather 

 till the next morninge ; then are yow to suckle the lambe on 

 her againe ; then are yow to putt the ewe and lambe into some 

 little close by themseLfes, wheare the ewe may see noe other 

 sheepe ; then, keepinge the ewe still hopled, are yow to take 

 the lambe and putt it easily to her, and yow yourself stand by 

 with a small swliitch in your hand, and so oft as shee ofiereth 

 either to beate the lambe or to walke away, yow are to wliippe 

 her sowndly aboute the nose and necke ; and by usinge this 



a Compare ■with this expression the lesson taught one of the Caliphs, by a vrise man 

 "who played the fool, as to the ill eifects of had government, "since even the broad 

 tails of the famed Barbaiy sheep have dwindled to the size of a raddish." • 



