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Chap. VIII.

How to amend the de felts and lacks that are in dogs , by other means.

\AJ E may also lupply the lacks that are in dogs, by other means, and teach themV V new qualities, even by their food and nourishment: for we have shewed oft-times, that qualities are drawn in together with the milk and nourishment where-by we live. (folumellat hews how

to make Dogs strong and swift

If yon would have them full of stout spirits, you must suffer them to suck the breastsof some other beasts; for alwayes the milk, and the spirits of the nurse, are muchavailable, both for the quality of the body, and the qualities of the soul. Oppia-nfu bids us to keep hunting dogs from sucking any ordinary Bitches, or Goats, orSheep; sot this, faith he, will make them too lazy and weak; but they must fuck atame Lionesse, or Hart, or Doe, or Wolf; for lo they will become swift and strong,like to their nurses that give them sock. And lÆlianw gives the very fame precept,in the very fame words : for, faith he, when they shall remember that they had suchstrong and swift nurses, nature will make them ashamed not to resemble their quali-ties. Pollux faith,that for a while,the Dams milk is fittest meat for whelps jbut after,let them lap the blood of those beasts which dogs have caught, that by little andlittle they may be acquainted with the sweetneffe of hunting. C't est as in his bookof Indian matters, writes, that the people called Cynamolgi, do nourish and feedmany dogs with Bulls blood, which afterward being let loose at the Bulls ok India,overcome them and kill them, though they be never so fierce: and the peoplethemselves milk their Bitches, and drink it, as we drink Goats or Sheeps milk, as*Ælianut reports: and Solinm writes, that this is supposed to make that peoplestap-mouched, and to grin like dogs. We may also make

an Ass become couragious,

if we take him as soon as he is brought forth into the world, and put him to a Marein the dark, that she may not discern him > for her own Colt being privily takenfrom her, she will give suck to the Afleasto her own foale: and when she hathdone thus for the space of ten daies, she will give him suck alwayes after wil-lingly, though she know him to be none of hers. Thus shall he be larger, and bet-ter every way.

Chap. IX.

How to bring forth divers kinds of Mules.

will speak of thecommixtion of Affes, Horses, and such like : though it be a¥V known matter, yet it may be we shall adde something which may delight theReader. zÆliantM writes out of Democritus, that Mules are not Natures work, buta kind of theft and adultery devised by man : first committed by an Aste of Media,that by force covered a Mare, and by chance got her with foal j which violence menlearned of him, and after that made a custom of it. Homers Scholiast faith, thatMules were first devised by the Venetians, a City of Paphlagonia. It is written inGenefts,c\\ty. z 6. V. 24. that Andh, Esau's kinsman, feeding his fathers Asses in thewiidcrnesse, found out Mules. Now

A Malt cometh of a tJMare and an Ass:

They have no root in their own kind, Hut are grassed as it were, and dcubse-kin-

ded,