{ One which rouseth the beast
and continueth the chase, }
{ Another which springeth the byrde
and bewrayeth flight by pursuite, }
Both which kyndes are tearmed of the Latines by one common name that is,
_Canes Venatici_, hunting dogges. But (3) because we Englishe men make a
difference betweene hunting and fowleling, for that they are called by
these seuerall wordes, _Venatio_ & _Aucupium_, so they tearme the Dogges
whom they vse in these sundry games by diuers names, as those which
serue for the beast, are called _Venatici_, the other which are vsed for
the fowle are called _Aucupatorij_.
The first kind called _Venatici_ I deuide into fiue sortes.
{ The first in perfect smelling
{ The second in quicke spying
{ The thirde in swiftnesse and quicknesse
{ The fourth in smelling & nymblenesse
{ The fifte in subtiltie and deceitfulnesse,
excelleth.
Of the Dogge called a Harier, in Latine _Leuerarius_.
That kinde of Dogge whom nature hath indued with the vertue of smelling,
whose property it is to vse a lustines, a readines, and a couragiousnes
in hunting, and draweth into his nostrells the ayre or sent of the beast
pursued and followed, we call by this word _Sagax_, the _Græcians_
by thys word #ichneutên# of tracing or chasing by y^e foote, or
#rhinêlatên#, of the nostrells, which be the instrumentes of smelling.
Wee may knowe these kinde of Dogges by their long, large, and bagging
lippes, by their hanging eares, reachyng downe both sydes of their
chappes, and by the indifferent and measurable proportion of their
making. This sort of Dogges we call _Leuerarios_ Hariers, that I may
comprise the whole n[um]ber of them in certaine specialties, and apply
to them their proper and peculier names, for so much as they cannot all
be reduced (4) and brought vnder one sorte, considering both the sundrye
uses of them, and the difference of their seruice wherto they be
appointed.