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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17539	Of Englishe dogges the diuersities, the names, the natures, and the properties. A short treatise written in latine by Iohannes Caius of late memorie, Doctor of Phisicke in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge; and newly drawne into Englishe by Abraham Fleming student. Seene and allowed.; De canibus Britannicis. Part 1. English	Caius, John, 1510-1573.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1576 (1576)	STC 4347; ESTC S113247	32,086	62

withdrew himself from no labour repined at no paines forsooke no trauaile refused no indeuour finally pretermitted no opportunity or circumstaunce which séemed pertinent and requisite to the performance of this litle libell In the whole discourse wherof the booke to consider the substaunce being but a pamphlet or skantling the argument not so fyne and affected and yet the doctrine very profitable and necessarye he vseth such a smoothe and comely style and tyeth his inuention to such methodicall and orderly procéedings as the elegantnes and neatnesse of his Latine phrase being pure perfect and vnmingled maketh the matter which of it selfe is very base and clubbishe to appeare shall I say tollerable nay rather commendable and effectuall The sundry sortes of Englishe dogges he discouereth so euidently their natures he rippeth vp so apparantly their manners he openeth so manifestly their qualities he declareth so skilfully their proportions he painteth out so perfectly their colours he describeth so artificially and knytteth all these in such shortnesse and breuity that the mouth of th'aduersary must néedes confesse giue sentence that commendation ought to bée his rewarde and praise his deserued pension An ignoraunt man woulde neuer haue bene drawne into this opinion to thincke that there had bene in England such variety choise of dogges in all respectes not onely for name but also for qualitie so diuerse and vnlike But what cannot learning attaine what cannot the kay of knowledge open what cannot the lampe of vnderstanding lighten what secretes cannot discretion detect finally what cannot experience comprehend what buge heapes of histories hath Gesnerus hourded vp in volumes of a large syze Fishes in floudes Cattell on lande Byrdes in the ayre how hath he sifted them by ther naturall differences how closely and in how narrow a compasse hath he couched mighty and monstruous beasts in bygnesse lyke mountaines the bookes themselues being lesser then Molehilles The lyfe of this man was not so great a restority of comfort as his death was an vlcer or wound of sorrow the losse of whom Caius lamented not so much as he was his faithfull friende as for that he was a famous Philosopher and yet the former reason being in very déede vehement forceable did stinge him with more griefe then he peraduenture was willing to disclose And though death be counted terrible for the time and consequently vnhappy yet Caius aduoucheth the death of Gesner most blessed luckie and fortunate as in his Booke intituled De libris proprijs appeareth But of these two Eagles sufficient is spoken as I suppose and yet litle enough in consideration of their dignitie and worthines Neuerthelesse litle or mickle something or nothing substaunce or shadow take all in good part my meaning is by a fewe wordes to wynne credit to this worke not so much for mine owne Englishe Translation as for the singuler commendation of them challenged of dutie and desart Wherfore gentle Reader I commit them to thy memorie and their bookes to thy courteous censure They were both learned men and painefull practitioners in their professions so much the more therfore are their workes worthy estimation I would it were in me to aduaunce them as I wishe the worst and yet both no doubt excellent hath deserued a monument of immortality Well there is no more to be added but this that as the translatiō of this booke was attempted finished and published of goodwill not onely to minister pleasure as to affoord profit so it is my desire and request that my labour therin employed may be acceptable as I hope it shal be to men of indifferent iudgement As for such as shall snarr and snatch at the Englishe abridgement and teare the Translatour being absent with the teeth of spightfull enuye I conclude in breuity there eloquence is but currishe if I serue in their meate with wrong sawce ascribe it not to vnskilfulnesse in coquery but to ignoraunce in their diet for as the Poet sayeth Non satis est ars sola coquo seruire palato Nanque coquus domini debet habere gulam It is not enough that a cooke vnderstand Except his Lordes stomack he holde in his hand To winde vp all in a watcheworde I saye no more But doe well and Farewell His and his Friendes Abraham Fleming The first Section of this discourse ¶ The Preamble or entraunce into this treatise I Wrote vnto you well beloued friende Gesner not many yeares past a manifolde historie contayning the diuers formes and figures of Beastes Byrdes and Fyshes the sundry shapes of of plantes and the fashions of Hearbes c. I wrote moreouer vnto you seuerally a certayne abridgement of Dogges which in your discourse vpon the fourmes of Beastes in the seconde order of mylde and tameable Beastes where you make mencion of Scottishe Dogges and in the wynding vp of your Letter written and directed to Doctour Turner comprehending a Catalogue or rehersall of your bookes not yet extant you promised to set forth in print an● openly to publishe in the face of the worlde among such your workes as are not yet come abroade to lyght and sight But because certaine circumstaunces were wanting in my breuiary of Englishe Dogges as séemed vnto mee I stayed the publication of the same making promise to sende another abroade which myght be commytted to the handes the eyes the eares the mindes and the iudgements of the Readers Wherefore that I myght perfourme that preciselye which I promised solempnly accomplishe my determination and satisfy your expectacion which art a man desirous and capeable of all kinde of knowledge and very earnest to be acquain●ed with all experimentes I wyll expresse and declare in due order the grand and generall kinde of Englishe Dogges the difference of them the vse the propertyes and the diuerse natures of the same making a tripartite diuision in this sort and maner All Englishe Dogges be eyther of A gentle kinde seruing the game A homely kind apt for sundry necessary vses A currishe kinde méete for many toyes Of these thrée sortes or kindes so meane I to intreate that the first in the first place the last in the last roome and the myddle sort in the middle seate be handled I cal thē vniuersally all by the name of English dogges as well because England only as it hath in it English dogs so it is not without Scottishe as also for that wée are more inclined and delighted with the noble game of hunting for we Englishmen are adicted and giuen to that exercise painefull pastime of pleasure as well for the plenty of fleshe which our Parkes and Forrests doe foster as also for the oportunitie and conuenient leasure which we obtaine both which the Scottes want Wherfore séeing that the whole estate of kindly hunting consisteth principally In these two pointes In chasing the beast that is in hunting In taking the byrde that is in fowleing It is necessary and requisite to vnderstand that there are two sortes of Dogges by whose