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the urine of a wood Hound, he shall anon feel sore ache 
of the guts and of the loins, Also the Hound is envious ; 
and he gathereth herbs privily, by whom he purgeth him- 
self with parbraking [vomiting] and casting, and hath envy, 
and is right sorry, if any man knoweth the virtue of those 
herbs. Ibid., § 27. 
Tue tongue of a Dog laid under the great toe within 
the shoe doth cease the barking of Dogs at the party that 
sO wears the same. 
Lupton, “ A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. vil. § 22. 
Ir you pluck out one of the eyes of a black Dog, whiles 
he is living, and will carry it with you, it will make that 
no Dogs shall bark at you; yea, though you walk among 
them. But it will be more sure, if you put thereto a little 
of the heart. of a wolf. Ibid., § 85. 
THE uttermost or last joint of the tail of a young 
whelp, after he is forty days old, being writhen off, the 
same Dog will never be mad. Besides that his tail will 
be thereby of a comely length. Tbid., bk. ii. § 45. 
Tue teeth of a mad Dog that hath bitten a man or 
woman, tied in leather, and then hanged at the shoulder, 
doth preserve and keep the party that bears it, from being 
bitten of any mad Dog. Ibid., bk. iv. § 52. 
Ir a wood Hound’s drivelling fall into the water, it 
infecteth the water; and who that drinketh of that water 
shall be dropsical and wood. 
Bartholumew (Berthelet), bk. vii. § 68. 
Tue delicate, neat and pretty kind of Dogs called the 
Spaniel-gentle, or the Comforter [Maltese Dog] :—These 
little Dogs are good to assuage the sickness of the stomach, 
being oftentimes thereunto applied as a plaster preservative, 
or borne in the bosom of the diseased and weak person. 
Moreover, the disease and sickness’ changeth his place and 
entereth (though it be not precisely marked) into the Dog, 
which to be truth experience can testify, for these kind of 
Dogs sometimes fall sick and sometimes die, without any 
harm outwardly enforced, which is an argument that the 
