{ One which rouseth the beast and continueth the chase,
{ Another which springeth the byrde and bewrayeth flight
by pursuite,
Utraque Latinis uno & communi nomine dici possunt venatica.
Both which kyndes are tearmed of the Latines by one common name that
is, _Canes Venatici_, hunting dogges.
Sed Anglis cum aliud esse videatur feras sectari, aliud aves capere,
ut primum venationem, secundum aucupium nominant, ita canum nomina
volunt esse diversa: ut qui feras lacessunt, venatici; qui aves,
aucupatorii dicerentur.
But 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_,
Venaticos rursum divido in quinque genera. Aut enim odoratu, aut visu
fatigant feras, aut pernicitate vincunt, aut odoratu & pernicitate
superant, aut dolo capiunt.
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_.
[Sagax.] Qui odoratu fatigat, & prompta alacritate in venando
utitur, & incredibili ad investigandum sagacitate narium valet:
a qua re nos sagacem hunc appellamus, quem Græci ab investigando
#ichneutên#, à nare #rhinêlatên# dicunt. Huic labra propensa sunt,
& aures ad os usque pendulæ, corporisque media magnitudo.
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.
[Leverarius.] Hunc Leverarium vocitabimus, ut universum genus in
certas species atque nomina reducamus: cum alioqui usus aut officii
nomine, in unitatem speciei adigi nullo modo queant.
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 and brought vnder one sorte, considering both
the sundrye uses of them, and the difference of their seruice wherto
they be appointed.
Nam alius leporis, alius vulpis, alius cervi, alius platycerotis,
alius taxi, alius lutræ, alius mustelæ, alius cuniculi (quem tamen
non venamur nisi casse & viverra) tantum odore gaudet: & in suo
quisque genere & desiderio egregius est.