De Canibus Britannicis: Of Englishe DoggesCaius, John
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De Canibus Britannicis: Of Englishe Dogges
Caius, John
Dogs -- Early works to 1800
Dogges for hunting two kindes generally. 2
Diuerse dogges diuerse vses. 4
Deceipt is th’ instrument of the Tumbler. 12
Dogges for the faulcon, the phesaunt,
and the partridge. 15
Dogs are houshold seruants. 16
Ducks deceaue both dogge and maister. 17
Ducks subtyle of nature. ibi.
Ducks dissẽble weaknesse. ibi.
Ducks prudent and prouident. ibidem
Ducks regarde them selues and their broode. ibid.
Dogges of a course kind. ibi.
Dissembling theeues. 27
Dissembling dogges. 30
Defending dogges stick to their maisters
to the death. ibide.
Defending dogges greedy of reuengement. ibidem
Diuersitie of mastiues. 32
Daungerous dogges. ibid.
Daunsers qualities. 35
Daunsers begge for their meate. ibidem
Daunsers vsed for lucre and gaine. ibid.
Dogges wonderfullye ingendred. ibidem
_E._
England is not without Scottish dogges. 2
Election in a gase hound. 8
England and VVales are cleare from wolues. 24
Edgar what tyme King of England. ibidem
Epirus a countrey in Græcia. 28
_F._
Foxe hunted by the gasehound. 8
Flight preuenteth peryl. 9
Froisart historiographer. 10
Flint Castle. ibide.
Fiench dogges howe their skins be speckled. 15
Fisher dogge none in Englande. 18
Fisher dogge, doubtfull if there be any such. ibidem
Faulcon and an Eagle fight. 26
Faulcon kylled for fighting with an Eagle. ibid.
Fire betraied by a dogge. 30
Fire raked vp by a dogge. 31
Farmars keepe dogges. ibid.
Feareful dogges barke sorest. 32
Foxes kept for sundrye causes. 36
Foxes holsome in houses. ibid.
_G._
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