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A42668	The history of four-footed beasts and serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues ... countries of their breed, their love and hatred to mankind, and the wonderful work by Edward Topsell ; whereunto is now added, The theater of insects, or, Lesser living creatures ... by T. Muffet ...; Historie of foure-footed beasts	Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?; Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625? Historie of serpents.; Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565. Historia animalium Liber 1. English.; Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565. Historia animalium Liber 5. English.; Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604. Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum. English.; Rowland, John, M.D.	1658 (1658)	Wing G624; ESTC R6249	1,956,367	1,026

undamnified and prevent each perillous tempest by preparing speedy flight or else by swift pursuite made upon their enemies might both overtake them encounter with them and make a slaughter of them accordingly But if it fortune so at any time that this Dog take a wrong way the Master making some usual signe and familiar token he returneth forthwith and taketh the right and ready race beginning his chase afresh and with a clear voice and a swift foot followeth the game with as much courage and nimbleness as he did at the first Of the DOG called the GRAY-HOUND in Latin Leporarius WE have another kinde of Dog which for his incredible swiftness is called Leporarius a Gray-hound because the principal service of them dependeth and consisteth in starting and hunting the Hare which Dogs likewise are indued with no lesse strength then lightness in maintenance of the game in serving the chase in taking the Buck the Hart the Doe the Fox and other beasts of semblable kinde ordained for the game of hunting But more or lesse each one according to the measure and proportion of their desire and as might and hability of their bodies will permit and suffer For it is a spare and bare kind of Dog of flesh but not of bone some are of a greater sort and some of a lesser some are smooth skinned and some are curled the bigger therefore are appointed to hunt the bigger beasts and the smaller serve to hunt the smaller accordingly The nature of the Dogs I finde to be wonderful by the testimony of all Histories For as John Froisart the Historiographer in his 4 lib. reporteth A Gray-hound of King Richard the second that wore the Crown and bare the Scepter of the Realm of England never knowing any man besides the Kings person when Henry Duke of Lancaster came to the Castle of Flint to take King Richard the Dog forsaking his former Lord and Master came to Duke Henry fauned upon him with such resemblances of good will and conceived affection as he favoured King Richard before he followed the Duke and utterly left the King So that by these manifold circumstances a man might judge his Dog to have been lightened with the lamp of foreknowledge and understanding touching his old Masters miseries to come and unhappiness nigh at hand which King Richard himself evidently perceived accounting this deed of his Dog a Prophecy of his overthrow Of the DOG called the LEVINER or LYEMMER in Latin Lorarius ANother sort of Dogs be there in smelling singular and in swiftness incomparable This is as it were a middle kinde betwixt the Harier and the Gray-hound as well for his kind as for the frame of his body And it is called in Latin Levinarius a Levitate of lightness and therefore may well be called a Light-hound it is also called by this word Lorarius a Loro wherewith it is led This Dog for the excellency of his conditions namely smelling and swift running doth follow the game with more eagerness and taketh the prey with a jolly quickness Of the DOG called a TUMBLER in Latin Vertagus THis sort of Dogs which compasseth all by crafts fraudes and subtilties and deceits we Englishmen call Tumblers because in hunting they turn and tumble winding their bodies about in circle wise and then fiercely and violently venturing upon the beast doth suddenly gripe it at the very entrance and mouth of their receptacles or closets before they can recover means to save and succour themselves This Dog useth another craft and subtilty namely when he runneth into a Warren or fetcheth a course about a Conyburrough he hunts not after them he frayes them not by barking he makes no countenance or shadow of hatred against them but dissembling friendship and pretending favour passeth by with silence and quietness marking and noting their holes diligently wherein I warrant you he will not be overshot nor deceived When he cometh to the place where Conies be of a certainty he cowcheth down close with his belly to the ground provided alwayes by his skill and policy that the winde be never with him but against him in such an enterprise and that the Conies spy him not where he lurketh By which means he obtaineth the scent and savour of the Conies carryed towards him with the winde and the air either going to their holes or coming out either passing this way or running that way and so provideth by his circumspection that the silly simple Cony is debarred quite from his hole which is the haven of their hope and the harbour of their health and fraudulently circumvented and taken before they can get the advantage of their hole Thus having caught his prey he carryeth it speedily to his Master waiting his Dogs return in some convenient lurking corner These Dogs are somewhat lesser then the Hounds and they be lancker and leaner beside that they be somewhat prick eared A man that shall marke the form and fashion of their bodies may well call them mungrel Gray-hounds if they were somewhat bigger But notwithstanding they countervail not the Grey-hound in greatness yet will he take in one dayes space as many Conies as shall arise to as big a burthen and as heavie a load as a horse can carry sor deceit and guile is the instrument whereby he maketh this spoil which pernicious properties supply the places of more commendable qualities Of the DOG called the THEEVISH DOG in Latin Canis furax THe like to that whom we have rehearsed is the Theevish Dog which at the mandate and bidding of his Master fleereth and leereth abroad in the night hunting Conies by the air which is sevened with the savour and conveied to the sense of smelling by the means of the winde blowing towards him During all which space of his hunting he will not bark lest he should be prejudicial to his own advantage And thus watcheth and snatcheth up in course as many Conies as his Master will suffer him and beareth them to his Masters standing The Farmers of the Countrey and uplandish dwellers call this kind of Dog a Night Cur because he hunteth in the dark But let thus much seem sufficient for Dogs which serve the game and disport of hunting Of Gentle DOGS serving the Hawk and first of the SPANIEL called in Latin Hispaniolus SUch Dogs as serve for fowling I think convenient and requisite to place in the second Section of this treatise These are also to be reckoned and accounted in the number of the Dogs which come of a gentle kind and of those which serve for fowling there be two sorts the first findeth game on the land the other findeth game on the water Such as delight on the land play their parts either by swiftness of foot or by often questing to search out and to spring the bird for further hope of advantage or else by some secret sign and privy token bewray the place where they fall The first kind of such serve the Hawk the second the net

not to be understood generally For the Martins of Polonia are so brown that they are altogether disliked and are accounted no better then the common Beech-Martins Wherefore the bright-brown aspersed with white hairs is ever accounted more pretious without all exception and by that colour upon the back of the skin the skinner judgeth of the worth and not by the yellowness of the throat Of these Beech-Martins there are great plenty in the Alpes especially on the South-side which look towards Italy but very few of the Wal-martins But on those parts of the Alpes which look towards Germany and the North there are aboundance of Fir-Martins with yellow throats for you must remember that the 〈…〉 Martin hath a white thro 〈…〉 and the Fir-Martin a yellow throat There are also of both kinds in Helvetia and the most excellent are in the vales towards the Alpes In France there are no Martins of the wall but the Beech-Martins live in hollow beeches There are also woods full of the Beasts in Brussia which the people there call Gayni Lanzaerucca a wood of Scandenavia fourscore miles long is full of Martins Also Muscovy and Lituania have store of these Beasts and Sabels But they of Lituania are the whitest in the world The people of Sarmatia in Europe wear garments of these in Sables and the inhabitants of Scythia Hungaria neer Tanais do pay yearly unto the Emperor of Russia once called the Duke of Muscovia a certain number of Sabels and Martins skins There are also store of Martins neer Bragansa and generally in all parts of Europe except in England They are in quantity about the bigness of a Cat having longer bodies but shorter legs with heads and tails like a Fox their skins ordinarily brown white on the throat and more yellow on the back Their teeth are exceeding white and unequal one longer then another being above measure sharp and the canine teeth both above and beneath hang out very long Amongst which on the neather chap stand six small cutting teeth in a right line over against one another which I think happeneth not in any other Beast of the world The grinding teeth are like a saw being triangular in fashion eight above and eight beneath Whereof the furthermost upon the upper-most side of the mouth are more deep and inward in the palat then all the residue the whole number is thirty two The long hairs upon their upward lip doe bend clean backwards Notwithstanding that there be two kindes of this Beast as already we have said yet do the Wood-Martins or Beech-Martins greatly desire copulation with the other wherefore Albertus saith Miscentur inter se haec genera Martesphagi fere sequitur Martem ablet●m tanquam nobiliorem ut foetum ex ea nobiliorem acquirat The Beech-Martin followeth the Fir-Martin und desireth her copulation as the nobler kind that he may thereby dignifie his own issue It should seem that they breed in March and make their nests like the draies of Squirrels and bring forth many at a time For it was constantly affirmed by a Countrey-man of Germany that he found a nest of these Martins builded like a Squirrels having four young ones in it in the beginning of April If they be taken when they are young both one and other kind grow wonderful tame and familiar with Men and Dogs And Gesner had one of these which loved a little Dog wonderfully and would follow him abroad whithersoever he went for or neer It would also play with Dogs and Men with teeth and nails lying flat upon the back like a Cat and never give any little hurt But loosened from his chain it would wander abroad into the neighbours houses and many times far off but alwayes returne home again They which tame them because that they are easily exasperated and bite deeply when they are angry do break off the tops of their canine teeth with a pair of pinsons for the preventing of that mischief 〈…〉 eth that the excrement of this Beast smelleth like a Musk-●at and saith the reason 〈◊〉 because they feed upon sweet fruits but we have heard that they eat Pullen-birds Egs and Mices but that they eat of fruits it cannot be proved 〈…〉 it unto their own nature For as the Martin●●esmelleth sweetly after her meat so may this Martin 〈…〉 〈…〉 To conclude the skins of these beasts is applyed to gow●y legs and the white hairs of the throat made into a cap is very soverain for the head-ach They may be taken with Dogs or in traps but commonly they are taken in ditches or pitfals according to this Verse of Calemius wherewithal I will conclude Et laqueo vulpe decipe cassi f●inas Of the MOLE or WANT I Do utterly dissent from all them that hold opinion that the Mole or Want is of the kind of Mite for that all of them in general both one and other have two long crooked foreteeth which is not in Moles and therefore wanting those as the inseparable propriety of kinde we will take it for granted that it pertaineth not to that rank or o 〈…〉 er of four-footed Beasts But concerning the Hebrew name thereof there is much variance and little certainty amongst writers Some of them calling it Tinschemet which word is found Deut. 14. which is also translated by the Chaldees Bots or Baveta a Swan and the Septuagints and Jerom Ibis and Rabbi Solomon in another place of the same Chapter translateth it a Bat which the French call Chaulve-souris But in that place of Levit. 11. where the Stellio the Lizard and Tinschemet are reckoned unclean Beasts Rabbi Solomon interprets it Talpom the Mole The Septuagints Aspalox the Caldee Aschuta the Arabian Lambaraz the Persian Angurbah-dedach There is a sentence Isa 2. in Hebrew thus Lachepon perot ve 〈…〉 ephim which by Munster is thus translated In die projiciet homo eur 〈…〉 argent 〈…〉 dea 〈…〉 in fossuras talparum vespertilionum In that day shall a man cast away his goods of silver and gold into the holes of Moles and Bats By S. Jerom it is translated thus Projiciet home I 〈…〉 la usque u 〈…〉 aret 〈◊〉 verspertiliones A man shall cast away his Idols to worship Moles and Bats Some again make but one word of Latheporperot and translate it a Beast digging ditches and the Septuagints Idols or abominations and think that they were so called because their outward farme representeth some such reptile creature and Symmachus unprofitable things but Aquila Orugas digging Beasts and therefore at this day all the learned take Perot for Moles so called by reason of their digging Avicen calleth it Pelagon a blinde Mouse In Greek it is called sometimes Spa 〈…〉 but more often Aspalax yet Albertus calleth it by a strange Grecian name Gol 〈…〉 and Keky which he took from Avicen The Italians retain the Latin word Talpa the Spaniards Topo by which word the Italians