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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

whose longer absence he was lothe to lacke Some Dogges there be which will not suffer fyery coales to lye skattered about the hearthe but with their pawes wil rake vp the burnyng coales musyng and studying fyrst with themselues howe it myght conueniently be done And if so bée that the coales cast to great a heate then will they buyry them in ashes and so remoue them forwarde to a fyt place wyth theyr noses Other Dogges bée there which exequute the office of a Farmer in the nyghte tyme For when his master goeth to bedde to take his naturall sleepe And when A hundred barres of brasse aud yron boltes Make all things safe from startes and from reuoltes VVhen Ianus keepes the gate with Argos eye That daungers none approch ne mischiefes nye As Virgill vaunteth in his verses Then if his master byddeth him go abroade he lingereth not but raungeth ouer all his lands lying there about more diligently I wys then any farmer himselfe And if he finde any thing their that is straunge and pertaining to other persons besides his master whether it be man woman or beast he driueth them out of the ground not medling with any thing which doth belong to the possession and vse of his master But how much faythfulnes so much diuersitie there is in their natures For there be some Which barcke only with free and open throate but will not bite Which doe both barcke and byte Which bite bitterly before they barcke The first are not greatly to be feared because they themselues are fearefull and fearefull dogges as the prouerbe importeth barcke most vehemently The second are daungerous it is wisedome to take héede of them because they sounde as it were an Alarum of an afterclappe and these dogges must not be ouer much moued or prouoked for then they take on outragiously as if they were madde watching to set the print of their teeth in the fleshe And these kinde of dogges are fearce and eager by nature The thirde are deadly for they flye vpon a man without vtteraunce of voyce snatch at him and catche him by the throate and most cruelly byte out colloppes of fleashe Feare these kind of Curres if thou be wise and circumspect about thine owne safetie for they bee stoute and stubberne dogges and set vpon a man at a sodden vnwares By these signes and tokens by these notes and argumentes our men discerne the cowardly curre from the couragious dogge the bolde from the fearefull the butcherly from the gentle and tractable Moreouer they coniecture that a whelpe of an yll kinde is not worthe the kéeping and that no dogge can serue the sundry vses of men so aptly and so conueniently as this sort of whom we haue so largely written already For if any be disposed to drawe the aboue named seruices into a table what mā more clearely and with more vehemency of voyce giueth warning eyther of a wastefull beast or of a spoiling théefe then this who by his barcking as good as a burning beacon fore showeth hassards at hand what maner of beast stronger what seruaūt to his master more louing what companion more trustie what watchman more vigilant what reuenger more constant what messinger more speedie what water bearer more painefull Finally what packhorse more patient And thus much concerning English Dogges first of the gentle kinde secondly of the courser kinde Nowe it remaineth that we deliuer vnto you the Dogges of a mungrell or currishe kinde and then will wee perfourme our taske ¶ A Diall pertaining to the fourth Section Dogs comprehended in the fourth section are these The shepherds dogge The Mastiue or Bandogge● which hath sundry names diriued frō sundry circūstances as The kéeper or watch man called in Latine Canes Rustici The butchers dogge called in Latine Canes Rustici The messinger or carrier called in Latine Canes Rustici The Mooner called in Latine Canes Rustici The water drawer called in Latine Canes Rustici The Tinckers curr called in Latine Canes Rustici The fencer called in Latine Canes Rustici The fifth Section of this treatise Containing Curres of the mungrell and rascall sort and first of the Dogge called in Latine Admonitor and of vs in Englishe VVappe or VVarner OF such dogges as keepe not their kinde of such as are mingled out of sundry sortes not imitating the conditions of some one certaine spice because they resēble no notable shape nor exercise any worthy property of the true perfect and gentle kind it is not necessarye that I write any more of them but to banishe them as vnprofitable implements out of the boundes of my Booke vnprofitable I say for any vse that is commendable except to intertaine straūgers with their bareking in the day time giuyng warnyng to them of the house that such such be newly come wherevpon we call them admonishing Dogges because in that point they performe theyr office Of the Dogge called Turnespete in Latine Veruuersator THere is comprehended vnder the curres of the coursest kinde a certaine dogge in kytchen ●eruice excellent For whē any meate is to bée roasted they go into a wheele which they turning rounde about with the waight of their bodies so diligently looke to their businesse that no drudge nor skullion can doe the feate more cunningly Whom the popular sort herevpon call Turnespets being the last of all those which wée haue first mencioned Of the Dogge called the Daunser in Latine Saltator or Tympanista THere be also dogges among vs of a mungrell kind which are taught and exercised to daunce in measure at the musicall sounde of an instrument as at the iust stroke of the drombe at the sweete accent of the Cyterne tuned strings of the harmonious Harpe showing many pretty trickes by the gesture of their bodies As to stand bolte vpright to lye flat vpon the grounde to turne rounde as a ringe holding their tailes in their téeth to begge for theyr meate and sundry such properties which they learne of theyr vagabundicall masters whose instrumentes they are to gather gaine withall in Citie Country Towne and Uillage As some which carry olde apes on their shoulders in coloured iackets to moue men to laughter for a litle lucre Of other Dogges a short conclusion wonderfully ingendred within the coastes of this country Thrée sortes of them The first bred of a bytch and a wolfe In Latine Lyciscus The second of a bytche and a foxe In Latine Lacaena The third of a beare and a bandogge In Latine Vrcanus OF the first we haue none naturally bred within the borders of England The reason is for the want of wolfes without whom no such kinde of Dogge can bée ingendred Againe it is deliuered vnto thée in this discourse how and by what meanes by whose benefite and within what circuite of tyme this country was cleerely discharged of rauenyng wolfes and none at all left no not to the least number or the beginnyng of a number which is an Vnari Of the second sort we are not

perpetuall slaue and drudge to him by whom their impudent ydlenes was bewrayed and layde against them in publique place least the insufferable slouthfallnes of such vagabondes should be ●urtherous to the people or being so hatefull and odious should growe into an example Alfredus likewise in the gouernment of his common wealth procured such increase of credite to iustice and vpright dealing by his prudent actes and statutes that if a mā trauailing by the hygh way of the countrey vnder his dominion chaunced to lose a budget full of gold or his capcase fa●sed with things of great value late in the euening he should finde it where he lost it safe sound and vntouched the next morning yea which is a wonder at any time for a whole monethes space if he sought for it as Ingulphus Croyladensis in his History recordeth But in this our vnhappy age in these I say our deuelishe dayes nothing can scape the clawes of the spoyler though it be kept neuer so sure within the house albeit the doores bée lockt and boulted round about This dogge in like māner of Grecians is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of the latinists Canis Cultos in Englishe the Dogge keeper Borrowing his name of his seruire for he doth not onely keepe farmers houses but also merchaunts maisons wherin great wealth riches substaunce and costly stuffe is reposed And therfore were certaine dogges founde and maintained at the common costes and charges of the Citizens of Rome in the place called Capitolium to giue warning of theefes comming This kind of dogge is also called In latine Canis Laniarius in Englishe the Butchers Dogge So called for the necessity of his vse for his seruice affoordeth great benefite to the Butcher as well in following as in taking his cattell when néede constraineth vrgeth and requireth This kinde of dogge is likewise called In latine Molossicus or Molossus After the name of a countrey in Epirus called Molossia which harboureth many stoute stronge and sturdy Dogges of this sort for the dogges of that countrey are good in déede or else their is no trust to be had in the testimonie of writers This dogge is also called In latine Canis Mandatarius a Dogge messinger or Carrier Upon substanciall consideration because at his masters voyce and commaundement he carrieth letters from place to place wrapped vp cunningly in his lether collar fastened therto or sowed close therin who least he should be hindered in his passage vseth these helpes very skilfully namely resistaunce in fighting if he be not ouermatched or else swiftnesse readinesse in running away if he be vnable to buckle with the dogge that would faine haue a snatchat his skinne This kinde of dogge is likewise called In latine Canis Lunari●s in Englishe the Mooner Because he doth nothing else but watch and warde at an ynche wasting the wearisome night season without slombering or sleeping bawing wawing at the Moone that I may vse the word of Nonius a qualitie in mine opinion straunge to consider This kinde of dogge is also called In latine Aquarius in Englishe a water drawer And these be of the greater and the waighter sort drawing water out of wells and deepe pi●tes by a wheele which they turne rounde about by the mouing of their burthenous bodies This kinde of dogge is called in like maner Canis Sarcinarius in Latine and may aptly be englished a Tynckers Curre Because with marueilous pacience they beare bigge budgettes fraught with Tinckers tooles and mettall meete to mend kettels porrige pottes skellets and chafers and other such like trumpery requisite for their occupacion and loytering trade easing him of a great burthen which otherwise he himselfe should carry vpon his shoulders which condition hath challenged vnto them the foresaid name Besides the qualities which we haue already recounted this kind of dogges hath this principall property ingrafted in them that they loue their mast●rs liberally and hate straungers despightfully whervpon it followeth that they are to their masters in traue●ling a singuler safgard defending them forceably from the inuasion of villons and theefes preseruing their lyfes from losse and their health from hassard theyr fleshe from hacking and hewing with such like desperate daungers For which consideration they are meritoriously tearmed In Latine Canes defensores defending dogges in our mother tounge If it chaunce that the master bée oppressed either by a multitude or by the greater violence so be beaten downe that he lye groueling on the grounde it is proued true by experience that this Dogge forsaketh not his master no not when he is starcke deade But induring the foree of famishment and the outragious tempestes of the weather most vigilantly watcheth and carefully keepeth the deade carkasse many dayes indeuouring furthermore to kil the murtherer of his master if he may get any aduantage Or else by barcking by howling by furious iarring snarring and such like meanes betrayeth the malefactour as desirous to haue the death of his aforesayde Master rigorouslye reuenged And example hereof fortuned within the compasse of my memory The Dogge of a certaine wayefaring man trauailing from the Citie of London directly to the Towne of Kingstone most famous and renowned by reason of the triumphant coronation of eight seuerall Kings passing ouer a good portion of his iourney was assaulted and set vpon by certaine confederate theefes laying in waight for the spoyle in Comeparcke a perillous bottom compassed about wyth woddes to well knowne for the manyfolde murders mischéefeous robberies theyr committed Into whose handes this passinger chaunced to fall so that his ill lucke cost him the price of his lyfe And that Dogge whose ●yer was Englishe which Blondus registreth to haue bene within the banckes of his remēbrance manifestly perceauyng that his Master was murthered this chaunced not farre from Paris by the handes of one which was a suiter to the same womā whom he was a wooer vnto dyd both bewraye the bloudy butcher and attempted to teare out the villons throate if he had not sought meanes to auoyde the reuenging rage of the Dogge In fyers also which fortune in the silence and dead time of the night or in stormy weather of the sayde season the older dogges barcke ball howle and yell yea notwithstandyng they bée roughly rated neyther will they stay their tounges till the housholde seruauntes awake ryse searche and sée the burning of the fyre which beyng perceaued they vse voluntary silence and cease from yolping This hath bene and is founde true by tryall in sundry partes of England There was no faynting faith in that Dogge which when his Master by a mischaunce in hunting stumbled and fell toppling downe a déepe dytche beyng vnable to recouer of himselfe the Dogge signifying his masters mishappe reskue came and he was hayled vp by a rope whom the Dogge seeyng almost drawne vp to the edge of the dytche chérefully saluted leaping and skipping vpon his master as though he woulde haue imbraced hym beyng glad of his presence