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The Animal-Lore of Shakspeares Time. 
Amoretto , in the play The 'Return from Parnassus , enu¬ 
merates some of the different varieties :— 
“He Hath your greyhound, your mungrell, your mastiff, your 
leurier, your spaniell, your kennets, terriers, butchers dogges, bloud- 
houndes, dunghill-dogges, trindle tailes, and prick-eard curres.” 
Orion concludes his defence of dogs by the following list 
of their acquirements :— 
“ Yea, there be of them, as there be of men, 
Of every occupation more or less : 
Some carriers, and they fetch; some watermen, 
And they will dive and swim when you do bid them; 
Some butchers, and they worry sheep by night; 
Some cooks, and they do nothing but turn spits. 
Cynics they are, for they will snarl and bite; 
Eight courtiers to flatter and to fawn; 
Valiant to set upon their enemies; 
Most faithful and most constant to their friends.” 
Shakspeare was perhaps indebted to this passage. 
“ First Murderer . We are men, my liege. 
Macbeth. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men: 
As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, 
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are clept 
All by the name of dogs: the valued file 
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, 
The housekeeper, the hunter, every one 
According to the gift which bounteous nature 
Hath in him clos’d; whereby he does receive 
Particular addition, from the bill 
That writes them all alike : and so of men.” 
{Macbeth, iii. 1, 91.) 
Dr. John Kaye, or Caius, as he called himself, was 
physician to three sovereigns of England, Edward VI., 
Mary, and Elizabeth. Amongst other works, Dr. Caius 
wrote, about the year 1550, a short treatise in Latin on 
English dogs, which was translated into English by 
Abraham Fleming in 1576. This hitherto scarce work 
has recently been reprinted, and published at a moderate 
