Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. -iip. 



A as to call for pay. In a Battell when the Cimbrians were defeated and put all to the fwordj their 

 dogges defended the baggage, yeajand their houles(fuch as they were)carried ordinarily upoii 

 charriois. Lifm the Lycian had a dogge, who after his mafter was flaine^, would never eat meat i 

 but pined himfelfe to death. Duris makeih mention of another dogge, which he namedHirca- 

 nuS;,thatfofooneasthcfunerallfireof kingZ.^y/»?<«f^/fc his mafter was fet a burningj leapt into 

 the flame. And fo did another at the funerals of king Hier^ , Moreover, Fhjlijtm reportcth as 

 ftrange a ftorie of king Pyrrhm his doggc: as alfo of another belonging to the tyrant Gc/i?.The 

 Chronicles report of a dog that ISlJcomedei king of Numidia kept, which flew upon the qncene 

 Cmfwgis his wife, & all to mangled and worried her/or toying and dallying overwantonly with 

 the king her husband. And to go no farther for exampIeSjCven with us here at Rome, yolcaum a 



B noble gentleman (who taught Cefelms the civile law) as he returned home one evening late, ri- • 

 ding upon an hackney from a village neere the citie^was aflailed by a theefe upon the liigh way, 

 but he had a dog with him that faved him out of his hands. C^/z/^likewife^aSenatour otRomCj 

 *lying fick at Piaifancejchanced to be aflailed by his cnemiesjwel appointed and armedibut they 

 were not able to hurt and wound him, by reafon of a dogge that he had about him, untill fuch 

 time as they had killed the faid dogge. But this pafleth ail,which happened in our timCjand fian- 

 deth upon record in the publicke rcgifters^ namely, in the y eerc that Jpfuis lunms and F, Silus 

 were Confuls, at what time as T.«y^i^-;;/^ and his iervants were executed for an outrage com- 

 mitted upon the perfon of iV^/tf/onne of Germmcm \ one of them that dyed had a dog which 

 could not be kept from the prilbn dore, and when his mafter was throwne downc the ftaires(c3l- 



C Isd Scalse Gemonia:) would not depart from his dead corps, but kept a moft piteous howling 

 and lamentation about it, in the fight of a great multitude of Romans that ftood round about 

 tofee the execution and the manner of it ; arid when one of the companie threw the dogge a 

 . peece of meatjhe ftreightwaies carried it to the mo uth of his mafter lying dead.Morcover,wheri 

 the carkaflTe was throwne into the river Tiberis, the fame dog fwam aftcr^ & made all the means 

 be»could tobeareitupaflotcthatit fliould notfinkerandto the fight of this fpe(5i:acle and fide - 

 litie of the poore dogge to his mafter, a number of people ran forth by heapes out of the citie 

 to the water fide. They be the onely beafts of all others that know their mafters ^aiid let a ftrauii- 

 ger unknowne be come never fo fodainly, they are ware of his comming, and will give warning. 

 They aloneknow their owne names, and all thofe of thehoufeby their fpecch . Be the wayne- 



D ver fo long,and the place from whence they came never fo farre, they remember it and can goe 

 thither againe. And liirely, letting man afi.de, I know not what creature hath a better memone. 

 As furious and raging as ihey be otherwhiies, ye.tappeafed they will be and quieted, by a man ^ 

 fitting down upon the ground. Cei'tes,the longer we live^the n"scre things we oblerve and raarke 

 ftill in thefc dogges. As for huntingjthere is not a beaft fofubtle, fo t|uicke,and fo fine of fentyas 

 is the hound : he hunteth and followeththe beaft by the foot,tr3ining the hunter diat leads him 

 by the collar and IcaiTi^to the very place where the beaft lieth. Having once gotten an eye ol his 

 game, how filent and fecrct are they notwirhftanding ? and yet ho'A' fignificant is their dilcoverie 

 of the beaft unto the liunccr?firft, with wagging their taile, and afterwards widi their nofe and 

 fiiout, Inuffing.as Jjey doe. And therefore itis no marveile, if whenhounds or beagles be over 



]| old, weariejandblindjmencarrie them intheirarmesto hunt, for to wind the beaft, and by the 

 veryfenrof the nofe to fliew and declarewhere the beaft is at harbour. The Indians take great 

 pleafure to have their fait bitches to be lined with tygres:andfor this purpoic,wlien they goe 

 proudjthey couple and tie them togithcr, and fb leave them in the woods for the maletygres: 

 howbeit they reare neither thefirft nor fecond litter of them ^fuppofing that the dogs thus bred, 

 will be too fierce and eget; but the third, they nourifh and bring up. Semblably, thus do the 

 Gaules by their dogges that are engendredof wolves : and in every chafe and forreft there by 

 whole flocks of them thus engendred, that have for their guidejleader,and captaine, one dogge 

 or other : him they accompanic when they hunt ; him they obey and are directed by: for furely, 

 ihey keepe an order among themfelves, of government and mafterfhip.This is knownefor cer- 



F taincjthat the dogges which be neere unto Nilus, lap of the river, running fliU and never ftay 

 while they are drinking, becaufe they will give novantage atall to beaprey.untothegreedic 

 Crocodiles. In the voyage thu AUxander the Great made into Indiajthc king of Albania gave 

 him a dogge of an huge and extraprdinarie bignefle . hnd^lexanderiMn^ great deiight 

 and contentment to fee fo goodly and fb &irc a dog, let loqfe ijnto him firft Beaies^ afterwards 



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