whole discourse of this abridgement. The number
importeth the Page.
Alphabetization is unchanged. The body text consistently spells “Master”; the Index uses “Maister”.
| A. | |
| Abridgement of Dogges. | [1] |
| Abstinence from lost goods. | [27] |
| Aelianus his opinion of bloodhoundes. | [6] |
| Aelianus and Aelius, opinion of the beauer. | [19] |
| Alfredus maintained iustice. | [27] |
An example of rebellion, and the reward of the same. | [26] |
| An example of loue in a dogge. | [31] |
| Arcadian dogge. | [36] |
| B. | |
| Bandogges bayte the Beare and the Bull. | [25] |
| Blondus opinion of a dogge. | [30] |
| Blooddy and butcherlye curres. | [32] |
| Beauer called a water dogge. | [19] |
| Beauer wherein hee is lyke a dogge. | [19] |
| Beasts preuented of succor. | [5] |
| Bloodhoundes howe they are knowne. | [5] |
| Bloodhounds conditions in hũting. | [ibidem] |
| Bloodhounds whence they borrowe their names. | [ibid.] |
| Bloodhoundes pursue without wearinesse. | [6] |
| Bloodhoundes discerne theeues from true men. | [6] |
| Bloodhoundes hunte by water and by land. | [ibid.] |
| Bloodhoundes when they cease from hunting. | [ibidem] |
Bloodhoundes why they are kept close in the daye, and let lose inthe night. | [ibide.] |
Bloodhounds haue not lybertye alwayes to raunge at wyll. | [7] |
| Bloodhoundes are their maisters guides. | [ibid.] |
| Borders of England pestred with pylferers. | [ibidem] |
Bloodhounds why they are vsed in England and Scotland. | [ibi.] |
| Bloodhoundes take not the water naturally. | [ibidem] |
| Bloodhoundes called Brache in Scottishe. | [ibidem] |
| Bloodhounds when they barck. | [8] |
| Butchers dogge. | [28] |
| Butchers dogge why so called. | [ibide.] |
| C. | |
| Caius booke of dogges twyse written. | [1] |
| Conny is not hunted. | [4] |
| Connye caught with the ferryt. | [ibidem] |
| Conny taken with the net. | [ibi.] |
| Continuaunce of tyme breedeth cunning. | [8] |
| Castle of Flint. | [10] |
| Cunnies preuented of succor. | [11] |
| Callimachus. | [20] |
| Cõforter called Meliteus. | [ibid.] |
| Comforters proportion described. | [ibide.] |
| Comforters condicions declared. | [ibidem] |
| Comforters to what ende they serue. | [ibidem] |
| Comforters the pretier, the pleasaunter. | [21] |
| Comforters, companions of ydle dames. | [ibidem] |
Comforters why they are so much estemed among gentlefolkes. | [ibidem] |
| Comforters, what vertue is in them. | [ibide.] |
| Conditions natural, som secrete, some manifest. | [ibide.] |
| Comforters called by sundrye names. | [ibide.] |
| Cicero pro S. Ross. | [26] |
| Countrey cotages annoyed with theeues. | [ibidem] |
| Capitolium kept dogges at the common charge. | [ibide.] |
| Carrier why he is so called. | [28] |
| Carriers seruice and properties. | [ibidem] |
| Comeparcke, a perillous place. | [30] |
| Cõmendation of the mastiue. | [32] |
| D. | |
| Dogges for hunting two kindes generally. | [2] |
| Diuerse dogges diuerse vses. | [4] |
| Deceipt is th’ instrument of the Tumbler. | [12] |
Dogges for the faulcon, the phesaunt, and the partridge. | [15] |
| Dogs are houshold seruants. | [16] |
| Ducks deceaue both dogge and maister. | [17] |
| Ducks subtyle of nature. | [ibi.] |
| Ducks dissẽble weaknesse. | [ibi.] |
| Ducks prudent and prouident. | [ibidem] |
| Ducks regarde them selues and their broode. | [ibid.] |
| Dogges of a course kind. | [ibi.] |
| Dissembling theeues. | [27] |
| Dissembling dogges. | [30] |
Defending dogges stick to their maisters to the death. | [ibide.] |
| Defending dogges greedy of reuengement. | [ibidem] |
| Diuersitie of mastiues. | [32] |
| Daungerous dogges. | [ibid.] |
| Daunsers qualities. | [35] |
| Daunsers begge for their meate. | [ibidem] |
| Daunsers vsed for lucre and gaine. | [ibid.] |
| Dogges wonderfullye ingendred. | [ibidem] |
| E. | |
| England is not without Scottish dogges. | [2] |
| Election in a gase hound. | [8] |
| England and VVales are cleare from wolues. | [24] |
| Edgar what tyme King of England. | [ibidem] |
| Epirus a countrey in Græcia. | [28] |
| F. | |
| Foxe hunted by the gasehound. | [8] |
| Flight preuenteth peryl. | [9] |
| Froisart historiographer. | [10] |
| Flint Castle. | [ibide.] |
| Fiench dogges howe their skins be speckled. | [15] |
| Fisher dogge none in Englande. | [18] |
| Fisher dogge, doubtfull if there be any such. | [ibidem] |
| Faulcon and an Eagle fight. | [26] |
| Faulcon kylled for fighting with an Eagle. | [ibid.] |
| Fire betraied by a dogge. | [30] |
| Fire raked vp by a dogge. | [31] |
| Farmars keepe dogges. | [ibid.] |
| Feareful dogges barke sorest. | [32] |
| Foxes kept for sundrye causes. | [36] |
| Foxes holsome in houses. | [ibid.] |
| G. | |
| Gesner desirous of knowledge. | [1] |
| Gesner earnest in experimentes. | [ibi.] |
| Gasehounde whence he hath his name. | [9] |
| Gasehoundes vsed in the North. | [ibidem] |
| Gasehound somtimes loseth his waye. | [ibidem] |
| Grehound light footed. | [ibid.] |
| Grehounds special seruice. | [ibi.] |
| Grehoundes strong and swifte. | [ibidem] |
| Grehounds game. | [10] |
| Grehounds spare of body. | [ibi.] |
| Grehounds nature wonderfull. | [ibid.] |
| Grehounde of King Richarde. | [ibid.] |
| Gentle dogge. | [14] |
| Gratius Poet his opinion. | [37] |
| Getulian dogge. | [38] |
| H. | |
| Hunting wherin it consisteth. | [2] |
| Hunting and fowleing doo differ. | [3] |
| Hunting dogges, fiue speciall kinds. | [ibid.] |
| Harryer excelleth in smelling. | [ibidem] |
| Harryer how he is known. | [ibi.] |
| Hare hunted by the gasehound. | [8] |
| Henry Duke of Lancaster. | [10] |
| Hole of the Conny, their hauen of health. | [11] |
| Hare daunsing in measure. | [16] |
| Hare beating and thumping a dogge. | [ibidem] |
Heare a hinderaunce to the water Spaniell in swymming. | [17] |
| Heare an vnprofitable burthen. | [ibi.] |
| Hector Boethus. | [18] |
| Henry the seuenth. | [26] |
| Henries commaundement to hang all bandogges. | [ibid.] |
| Henries Faulconer, and his Faulcon. | [ibi.] |
| Hippocrates. | [38] |
| I. | |
| Justice mayntained by Alfred. | [27] |
| Ingulphus Croyladensis historiographer. | [28] |
| Ianus watching. | [31] |
| Indian dogges. | [37] |
| Iseland curres, rough and rugged. | [ibid.] |
| Iselande curres mutch sette by. | [ibidem] |
| K. | |
| King Richarde of England. | [10] |
| King Edgars trybute out of VVales. | [23] |
| King Henrie the seuenth. | [26] |
| King of all beasts, the Lyon. | [ibi.] |
| King of all Birds, the Eagle. | [ibi.] |
| Keepers seruice. | [28] |
Kingston, or Kingstoune verye famous in olde time. | [30] |
Kinges crowned at Kingstoune, to the number of eyght, theyr namesare these. Edward the first, Athelstan, Edmunde, Aldred, Edwin, Edgar,Edeldred, Edwarde, syrnamed Yron rybbes. | [ibid.] |
| L. | |
| Leuiner quicke of smelling, and swyft of running. | [10] |
| Leuiner, why so called. | [ibi.] |
| Leuiner foloweth the game eagerly. | [ibi.] |
| Leuiner taketh his pray speedilie. | [ibid.] |
| Lyon King of all beasts. | [26] |
| Lust of the flesh reconcileth enemies. | [36] |
| M. | |
| Maisters becke a direction to the gasehound. | [9] |
| Melita or Malta. | [20] |
| Mastiues proportiõ described. | [20] |
| Mastiue, why he is called Villaticus. | [ibi.] |
| Mastiues vse and seruice. | [ibi.] |
| Mastiues are mankind. | [ibi.] |
| Mastiues of great might. | [16] |
| Molossia. | [28] |
| Mooner, why so termed. | [29] |
| Mooner watchfull. | [ibi.] |
| Mungrellesl. | [34] |
| Maisterles men carrie Apes about. | [35] |
| Man in the moone. | [37] |
| N. | |
| Nature hath made some dogges for hunting. | [4] |
| Naturall properties of the water spaniel. | [16] |
| No VVolues in Englande nor VVales. | [24] |
| No place free from theeues. | [27] |
| Nothing escapeth the spoiler. | [18] |
| Nonius bau wau. | [19] |
| Names of the mastiue. | [33] |
| Names of the spaniel gentle. | [22] |
| Names of Dogges whence they were deriued. | [39],[40], [41],[42], &c. |
| O. | |
| One Dogge hunteth diuerse beastes. | [4] |
| Owners of bloudhoundes howe they vse them. | [6] |
| Order of the Tumbler in hunting. | [11] |
| Of the Cumaneasse. | [37] |
| Of brasen shanckt Thales. | [ibi.] |
| Otter. | [7] |
| P. | |
| Properties of a bloudhound issuing from desire. | [7] |
| Proportion and making of the water spaniel. | [17] |
| Pupine a byrd and a fyshe. | [18] |
| Princes pallace pestered with theeues. | [16] |
| Paris in Fraunce. | [30] |
| R. | |
| Rome maintained dogges. | [28] |
| Rare toyes meete for Englishemen. | [37] |
| S. | |
| Smelling is not incident to the gasehound. | [8] |
| Spaniels of a gentle kinde. | [14] |
| Spaniels two sortes. | [ibide.] |
| Spaniel of the lande what properties. | [ibidem] |
| Spaniel for the hauke and the nette. | [ibide.] |
| Spaniels some haue speciall names. | [ibide.] |
| Spaniel a name vniuersall. | [15] |
| Spaniels the colour of their skinnes. | [ibidem] |
Setters make no noyse, or very litle, in their game. | [ibidem] |
| Setters giue attendaunce. | [ibide.] |
| Setters behauiour. | [ibide.] |
| Setter whence he hath his name. | [16] |
| Sea calfe not numbred amonge Englishe dogges. | [19] |
| Sea calfe called a dogge fishe. | [ibi.] |
| Seele or sea veale. | [ibidem] |
| Spaniell gentle or the comforter. | [20] |
| Shepherdes dogge. | [23]. |
| The necessity of their seruice. | [ibi.] |
| The proportion of them. | [ibidem] |
Shepherdes what benefite they reape by their dogges. | [24] |
Sheepherdes in what countryes they go before theirsheepe. | [ibidem] |
Sheepe howe they flocke at the sheepherds whistle. | [ibid.] |
| Sheepherds Dogge choose and take. | [ibid.] |
| Salacones vaineglorious. | [37] |
| T. | |
| Terrars hunt the badger and the Foxe. | [4] |
| Terrars hunt as ferryts hunt. | [ibi.] |
| Terrars conditions. | [ibid.] |
| Terrars holde fast with theyr teeth. | [5] |
| Tumblers crafty and fraudulent. | [11] |
| Tumblers why so named. | [ibid.] |
| their trade in hũting. | [ibi.] |
| their dissembling of friendship. | [ibi.] |
| they hunt against the wind. | [12] |
| Theeuish dogges. | [ibidem] |
| Theeuish Dogge, a night curre. | [ibidem] |
| Theeues feare no law. | [27]. |
| Some steale for neede. | [ibid.] |
| Some to maintaine brauery. | [ibi.] |
| Tynckers curres beare burthens. | [29]. |
| their conditions. | [ibi.] |
| they loue their masters. | [ibid.] |
| Two suiters to one woman. | [30] |
| Turnespet painefull in the kytchen. | [34] |
| Thales with the brasen feete. | [37] |
| V. | |
| Vertue of the comforter. | [21] |
| Valentines law for vagabundes. | [27] |
| Virgils vearse. | [31] |
| W. | |
| VVatchwordes make Dogges perfect in game. | [8] |
| VVonder of a Hare or Leuerit. | [16] |
| VVater spaniell called the finder. | [ibidem] |
| VVater spaniels what properties. | [ibidem.] |
| VVater spaniels their proportion. | [17]. |
| howe they be described by D. Caius. | [ibidem] |
| VVhy so called. | [ibidem] |
| VVhere their game lyeth and what it is. | [ibidem] |
| VVhy they are called fynders. | [ibidem] |
| VVanton women, wanton puppies. | [20] |
| VVolues bloudsucking beastes. | [23]. |
| none England nor wales. | [ibidem]. |
| three hundred payde yearely to Prince Edgar. | [ibid.] |
| VVarner what seruice he doth. | [34] |
| VVappes vnprofitable dogges. | [ibidem] |
| Y. | |
| Young dogges barcke much. | [8] |
| Yolping and yelling in a bandogge. | [31] |
| Yll kinde whelpes not regarded. | [33] |
The ende of the Index.
¶ Faultes escaped
thus to b’amended.
| In the last page of the Epistle | Dedicatory, Quæ for Qui |
| Page. 3. | Grecians for Græcians, |
| Page. 28. | Canis Cultos for Canis Custos, |
| Page. 38. | Britanica for Britannica. |
Other faultes we referre to the correction of the Reader. | |
There bee also certaine Accents wanting in the Greeke words which, because we had them not, are pretermitted: so haue wee byn fayne to let the Greeke words run their full length, for lacke of Abbreuiations.
Studio & industriæ,
Abrahami
Flemingi.