[Sagax.] Hunde igitur (quem inter venaticos sagacem diximus) a verbo nostro hunte, quod apud nostros venari significat, unica tantum immutata litera derivata appellatione, nomen habet. Quod si a vocabulo vestrati hunde, (quod canem in universum apud vos significat) propter vocum similitudinem appellari credas (mi Gesnere) ut non magnopere repugnabo, cum adhuc retinemus multa Germanica vocabula, a Saxonibus cum Angliam occuparunt nobis relicta, ita illud admonebo, commune quidem nomen canis apud nos dogge esse, venatici vero canis hunde. _Sagax_, in Englishe Hunde, is deriued of our English word hunte. One letter chaunged in another, namely, T, into D, as Hunt, Hunde, whom (if you coniecture to be so named of your country worde _Hunde_ which signifieth the generall name Dogge, because of the similitude and likenesse of the wordes I will not stand in contradiction (friende _Gesner_) for so much as we retaine among vs at this day many Dutche wordes which the _Saxons_ left at such time as they occupyed this country of Britane. Thus much also vnderstand, that as in your language _Hunde_ is the common word, so in our naturall tounge dogge is the vniuersall, but _Hunde_ is perticuler and a speciall, for it signifieth such a dogge onely as serueth to hunt, and therfore it is called a hunde. Of the Gasehounde. [Agasæus.] Similiter à verbo nostrati, Gase, (quòd fixius rem aliquam & attentius contueri est) Gasehunde appellatur nostris, quem ante Agasæum nominari diximus. Neque enim odoratu, sed prospectu attento & diligenti feram persequitur iste canis, ut jam ante memoravimus; etsi non sum nescius etiam apud Latinos Agasæi vocabulum inter canum nomina reperiri. The Gasehounde called in latine _Agasæus_, hath his name of the sharpenesse and stedfastnesse of his eyesight. By which vertue he compasseth that which otherwise he cannot by smelling attaine. As we haue made former relation, for to gase is earnestly to viewe and beholde, from whence floweth the deriuation of this dogges name. Of the Grehounde. [Leporarius.] A Gre quoque, Grehunde apud nostros invenit nomen, quod præcipui gradus inter canes sit, & primæ generositatis. Gre enim apud nostros gradum denotat. Hunc latinè Leporarium dicebamus. The Grehounde called _Leporarius_, hath his name of this word, Gre, which word soundeth, _Gradus_ in latine, in Englishe degree. Because among all dogges these are the most principall, occupying the chiefest place, and being simply and absolutely the best of the gentle kinde of houndes. Of the Leuyner or the Lyemmer.