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INDIAXA UXIVEESITT 



iiess with which Rowlands in places follows Naslie, or perhaps the 

 translation which Xashe too copied closely in spots. ^® 



Greenes Ghost: 



For first and foremost, there is no man of experience tliat will denje 

 but dogs do exeell in outward senee. for tliey will smell better then we. 

 and thereby hunt the game when they see it not. Besides, they get the 

 sight of it better then we, and are wonderfull quieke of hearing. But let 

 us come to speech, which is either inward or outward. Now that they 

 have outward speech I make no question, although we cannot undei-stand 

 them, for they bark as good old Saxon as may be ; yea they have it in 

 more daintie maner than we, for they have one kind of voice in the chase, 

 and another when they are beaten, and another when they fight. ... he 

 fliooseth those things that are commodious unto him, and shunneth the 

 contrarie: He knoweth what is good for his diet, and seeketh about for it. 

 At the sight of a whip he runneth away like a theef from a liue and crie. 

 Neither is he an idle fellow that lives like a trencher Flie upon the sweat 

 of other mens browes, but hath nattirallie a trade to get his living by, as 

 namely the arte of hunting and Conicatching, which these late bookes go 

 about to discredit. Yea, there be of them as of men of all occupations, 

 some Oariers, and they will fetch ; some watermen and they will dive and 

 swim when you bid them; some butchers, and they will kill sheepe; some 

 cookes, and they turne the spit. 



Summers Last Will: 



That creature's best that comes most neere to men ; 



That dogs of all come neerest, thus I prove : 



First, they excell us in all outward sence. 



Which no one of experience will deny ; 



They heare, they smell, they see better then we. 



To come to speech, they have it questionlesse, 



Although we understand them not so well : 



They barke as good old Saxon as may be. 



And that in more varietie then we : 



For they have one voice when they are in chase, 



Another, when they wrangle for their meate, 



Another, when we beate them out of dores. 



That they have reason, this I will alleadge, 



They choose those things that are most fit for them, 



And shunne the contrarie all that they may ; 



They know what is for their owne diet best. 



And seeke ;ibot for't very carefully : 



At sight of any whip they runne away. 



3s Although these parallel passages — like every borrowing recorded in this pa- 

 pei- — ^were noticed independently, the source of the discourse on dogs was unknown. 

 Cf. notes on Summers Last WiU, III, 2.54, 670-73.5. where is given the ultimate 

 source of these passages, the Pyrrhonine Hijpotijposes of Sextus Empiricus in the 

 Latin translation of Henri Etienne. 



