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Sore, Sorel. 
Love’s Lasour’s Lost, iv. 2, 59, 60. 
Sore, a deer of four years old. 
Sorel, a deer of three years. Minshew’s Dictionary, 5.0. 
Sow. 
Macsets, iv. 1, 64. 
A sow rooteth and diggeth the earth to get her meat 
and food, and overturneth and rooteth that she may come 
with the teeth to mores [roots] and roots, And the young . 
sow conceiveth against the evenness of day and night in 
springing - time, and farroweth sometime twenty pigs at 
once, but she eateth all sometime, out-taken the first, for 
he is most kindly to her, and she giveth him alway the 
first teat. The Sow is an unclean beast, and a right great 
glutton, and coveteth and desireth baths, fens and puddles, 
and resteth herself therein, and waxeth fat. And the 
seventh part of her meat turneth into hair and blood, and 
into other such. Bartholomew (Bertfelet), bk. xviii. § 99. 
V. Swine, Boar. 
Spaniel. 
Mipsummer Nicut’s Dream, ii. I, 203-7. 
Tue best sort of these dogs came from Spain. 
Minsheu’s Dictionary, s.v. 
THE water-spagnel is taught by his master to seek for 
things that are lost (by words and tokens), and if he meet 
any person that hath taken them up, he ceaseth not to 
bay at him, and follow him, till he appear in his master’s 
presence. They use to shear their hinder parts, that so 
they may be the less annoyed in swimming. 
I may here also add the land-spagnel attending a hawk 
who are taught by falconers to retrieve and raise part- 
ridges. They are for the most part white, or spotted with 
red or black. Topsell, “ Four-footed Beasts,” p, 122. 
