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former, to amend certain natural defects in one kind; and the latter, to make theirdogs stronger for the game,and craftier to efpie and take advantage ;as commonly,to-gether with the properties of the body,the qualities of the mindare derived into theyoung ones. OW mentions such mungrels amongst AElnons dogs: and Oppiantuin his book of Hunting, counsels to join in the Spring-time, divers dogs together, ifwe desire to have any excellent parts in any ;| as the dogs of Elis, with them of Arca-dia ; the dogs of Crete, with them of Pannonia ; Thracians, with them of Caria;Lacedæmonians, with them of Tuscia ; and Sarmatian dogs, with Spanish dogs. Thuswe fee, how to generate a dog as stomackful as a Lion, as fierce as a Tygre,as craf-ty as a fox, as spotted as a Leopard, and as ravenous as a Wolf,

Chap. VII.

How to generate pretty little dogs to play with.

B Ecause a dog is such a familiar creature with man, therefore we will shewhow to generate and bring up a little dog, and one that will be play-full. Firstof .the generation

. Of Itttle Dogs.

In times past, women were wont to esteem little dogs in great price, especially suchas came from Malta the Island situate in the Adriatical Sea, neer to Ragusius. Cal-limaehtts terms them Melitean dogs. And Aristotle in his Problems, shews themanner of their generation ; where he questioneth, Why amongst living creaturesof the same kind, some have greater, and some have smaller bodies ; and givesthereof a double reason: one, is the straightneffe of the place wherein they arekept; the other, is the scarcenesse of their nourishment: and some have attemptedto lessen the bodies of them, even after their birth ; as they which nourish up lit-tle whelps in small cages: for thereby they shorten and lessen their bodies - buttheir parts are prettily well knit together, as appears in Melitæan dogs: for natureperformes her work, notwithstanding the place, dtbexans writes, that the Syba-rites were much delighted with Melitæan dogs, which are such in the kind of dogs,as Dwarfesare among men. They are much made of, and daintily kept, ratherfor pleasure then for any use. Those that are chosen forsuch a purpose, are of thesmallest pitch, no bigger at their best growth then a mouse, in body well set, havinga little head, a small snout, the nose turning upward, bended so for the purpose whenthey were young ; long ears, short legs, narrow feet, tail somewhat long, a shaggedneck, with long hair to the shoulders, the other parts being as it were shorn, in co-lour white ; and some of them ate shagged all over. These being shut up in a cage,you must feed very sparingly,that they never have their fill; and let them couple withthe least you can find, that so lesse may be generated ; for so Hippocrates writes, thatNorthern people, by handling the heads of dogs while they be young, make themlesse then, and so they remain even after they are come to their full growth : and inthis shape they gender others, so that they make, as it were, another kind, Bat ifyou would know the generation of a

Dog that will do tricky and feats t

one that will make sport of himself, and leap up and down, and back softly, andgnaw without biting, and stand upon his hindermost legs, holding forth his otherlegs like hands, and will fetch and carry; you must first let them converse and com-pany with an Ape, of whom they will learn many sportful tricks; then let themline the Ape; and the young one which is born of them two, will be exceedingpractised to do feats, such as Juglers and Players are wont to shew by their dogs.Alhertus faith, that these kind of dogs may very well be generated of * d®g * oc *a fox.

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