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and chaunge their ftrawe euery day : and when you perceiue that 

 they beginne to goe, you fliall haue a net made of strong thread, 

 laced with a thong, and fallned about the Tun or Pypc, euen as 

 they couer a Swyflers drummej fo that you may kepe them from 

 going out, and that other dogs do not byte them, or that they be 

 troden vpon or marred with mens feete. And you muft make 

 this pype or tunne in fuch forte that it may be opened when you 

 wilJ. And as touching other whelpes which are bred in Som- 

 mer, they muft be put in fome freflie place whether other dogges 

 come not ordinarily, and you fliould lay vnder them fome hai- 

 dJe or watlyng with ftrawe therevpon, leaft the colde or moyft- 

 nelTc of the earth doe annoy them : and that ftrawe muft alfo be 

 often changed. They ought alfo to be in fome darke place, by- 

 caufe the Flyes fliall fo leaft annoy them, and therewithall it 

 fliall be alio good to annoynte them twyce a weeke with oyle 

 of Nuttes myngled and beaten with Saffron bruzed to pou- 

 der, for that oyntment doth kyll all fortes of wormes, and re- 

 comfortes the fkynne and the fynewes of dogges, and keepeth 

 them from byting of Flyes and Punayfes. And fometyme you 

 muft alfo annoynte the Bytch in like manner, and put there to 

 the iuyce of Berne or wylde Crefleys, for feare leaft flie fyll 

 hir whelpes full of Fleas : and forget not to nouriflie hir 

 with pottage as is before rehearfed. When the whelpes fliall 

 be fyfteene dayes olde, you mufte worme them, and eyght 

 daycs after you may cut ofF one ioynte of theyr tayles, in fuche 

 fourme and manner as 1 will prefcribe hereafter in the treatie 

 of Receiptes. Afterwardes when they fliall begynne to fee and 

 to eate, you mufte gyue them good mylke alwayes hote, whe- 

 ther it be Cowes mylke, Gotes mylke, or Ewes mylke : and 

 note, that it fliall not be good to wayne them, and put them to 

 keeping abroade, vntyll they be two monethes olde, and that 

 for dyuers caufes. One : bycaufe the longer they tafte of theyr 

 dammes teate, the more they fliall take of hir complexion and 

 nature, the which we may fee by experience. For when a Bytch 

 hath whelpes, let a maftyf^e bytch gyue fucke to that one halfe, 

 and you fliall fynde that they will neuer be fo good as thofe 



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