Notwithstanding many make much of those pretty puppies called Spaniels gentle, yet if the question were demaunded what propertie in them they spye, which shoulde make them so acceptable and precious in their sight, I doubt their aunswere would be long a coyning. But seeing it was our intent to trauaile in this treatise, so that y^e reader might reape some benefite by his reading, we will communicate vnto you such coniectures as are grounded upon reason. And though some suppose that such dogges are fyt for no seruice, I dare say, by their leaues, they be in a wrong boxe. Among all other qualities therfore of nature, which be knowne (for some conditions are couered with continuall and thicke clouds, that the eye of our capacities can not pearse through thẽ) we find that these litle dogs are good to asswage the sicknesse of the stomacke being oftentimes thervnto applyed as a plaster preseruatiue, or borne in the bosom of the diseased and weake person, which effect is performed by theyr moderate heate. Quin & transire quoque morbos ægritudine eorum intelligitur, plerumque & morte: quasi malo in eos transeunte caloris similitudine. Moreouer the disease and sicknesse chaungeth his place and entreth (though it be not precisely marcked) into the dogge, which to be no vntruth, experience can testify, for these kinde of dogges sometimes fall sicke, and sometime die, without any harme outwardly inforced, which is an argument that the disease of the gentleman, or gentle woman or owner whatsoeuer, entreth into the dogge by the operation of heate intermingled and infected. Generosorum canum genus jam explicui: Nunc rusticum adjicio. And thus haue I hetherto handled dogges of a gentle kinde whom I haue comprehended in a triple diuisiõ. Now it remaineth that I annex in due order such dogges as be of a more homely kinde. A Diall pertaining to the _thirde Section_. In the third section is cõtained one kind of dog which is called the Spaniell gentle or the cõforter, It is also called { A chamber cõpanion, { A pleasaunt playfellow, { A pretty worme, generally called _Canis delicatus_. The fourth Section of this _discourse_. Dogges of a course kind seruing for many necessary vses called in Latine _Canes rustici_, and first of the shepherds dogge called in Latine _Canis Pastoralis_. [Ex rusticis.] In eo memorabilia duo tantum genera sunt: pecuarium seu pastorale, & villaticum seu Molossum: Dogges of the courser sort are { The shepherds dogge { The mastiue or Bandogge. These two are the principall. alterum ad propellendas injurias ferarum, alterum adversus insidias hominum utile.