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tioned. We may state, however, that this use of the word setter to denote 
the dog used with the net was not followed by later writers, so that it cannot 
be allowed as a specific and accepted name at that period for the dog which 
eventually became known as the setter. Two hundred years later the 
“setting spaniel”’ was still in use for the net and called by that name, while 
the term setter was coming into general use for the dog employed in a 
similar manner with the gun. We will now give the extract from Dr. Caius 
“Of Englishe Dogges.” 
The feconde Section of 
this dijcourfe. 
Of gentle Dogges seruing the hauke, and first of the Spaniell, called in Latine 
Hispaniolus. 
Such Dogges as ferue for fowling I thinke conuenient and requisite to place in 
this seconde Section of this treatise. These are also to bee reckoned and accounted 
in the number of the dogges which come of a gentle kind, and of those which serue 
for fowling. 
There be two f The first findeth game on the land i 
sortes ~The other findeth game on the water 
Such as delight on the land, play their partes, eyther by swiftnesse of foote, or 
by often questing, to search out and to spying the byrde for further hope of aduan- 
tage, or else by some secrete signe and priuy token bewray the place where they fall. 
The first kinde of The Hauke 
such serue 
The Seconde, { The net, or, traine 
The first kinde haue no peculiar names assigned vnto them, saue onely that 
they be denominated after the byrde which by naturall appointment he is allotted 
to take, for the which consideration. 
{The the Falcon 
The Pheasant | ana such like 
The Partridge 
The common sort of people call them by one generall word, namely, Spaniells. 
As though these kinde of Dogges came originally and first of all out of Spaine, The 
most part of their skynnes are white, and if they be marcked with any spottes, they 
are commonly red, and somewhat great therewithall, the heares not growing in such 
thicknesse but that the mixture of them maye easely be perceaued. Othersome of 
them be reddishe and blackishe, but of that sorte there be but a very few. ‘There is 
also at this day among vs a newe kinde of dogge brought out of Fraunce (for we 
Englishe men are maruailous greedy gaping gluttons after nouelties, and couetous 
cormorauntes of things that be seldom, rare, straunge, and hard to get). And they 
bee speckled all ouer with white and black, which mingled colours incline to a 
marble blewe, which bewtifyeth their skines and affordeth a seemely show of 
comlynesse. These are called French dogges as is aboue declared already. 
Some be called 
Dogges, 
