Natural Hiftory of the Ancients. 5 1 



He beft to ftem the flood, to leap the bound, 

 And charm the Dryads with his voice profound ; 

 To pay large tribute to his weary lord, 

 And crown the fylvan hero's plenteous board." 



Gervafe Markham's quaint picture of the " water 

 dogge " may well be compared with this (fee his 

 "Hunger's Prevention," London, 1621, in which 

 are a good many more notices of dogs) : " His 

 Necke would bee thicke and fhort, his Breft like 

 the breft of a fhippe, fharp and compafle; his 

 Shoulders broad, his fore Legs ftraight, his chine 

 fquare, his Buttockes rounded, his Ribbes com- 

 pafle, his Belly gaunt, his Thyes brawn, his 

 Gambril crooked, his pofteriors ftrong and dewe 

 clawde, and all his four feete fpacious, full and 

 round, and clofed together like a water duck" 

 (chap. ix.). 



Much curious matter on dogs may be picked 

 out of George Turberville's " Book of Faulconrie," 

 publifhed in 1575; and his "Noble Arte of 

 Venerie," in which he largely compiled from Du 

 Fouilloux and Jean de Glamorgan. Harington, 

 Glanville, Barlow, and William Harrifon, in 

 Holinfhed's "Hiftory" ed. 1586, cap. 7, may 

 alfo be confulted with profit. Some of this old- 

 world learning has been brought together by Mr. 

 G. R. Jefle in his " Refearches into the Hiftory of 

 the Britifh Dog" (London, 1866). All thefe 

 authors love dogs as fervently as the Indian hero, 

 Yoodhift'huru. When the chariot of Indru was 

 waiting to convey him to heaven, he came attended 

 by his dog. " I don't take dogs," faid Indru. 

 " Then I don't go," replied Yoodhift'huru. The 



