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    OF ENGLISH DOGS (VINTAGE DOG BOOKS BREED HISTORY SERIES)
    OF ENGLISH DOGS (VINTAGE DOG BOOKS BREED HISTORY SERIES)
    OF ENGLISH DOGS (VINTAGE DOG BOOKS BREED HISTORY SERIES)
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    OF ENGLISH DOGS (VINTAGE DOG BOOKS BREED HISTORY SERIES)

    By Johannes Caius

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    The diversities, the names, the natures, and the properties. Originally written and published in 1576, this is a reprint of the earliest known work on dog breeds. Translated from the original Latin, it lists all the dog breeds of the time and charts their type and development. As the only known work from the period it is of great significance. The forebears of all modern breeds can clearly be seen in the names and types of dogs described, as can many breeds that are now lost forever. Listed within: Harriers, Terriers, Bloodhounds, Gazehounds, Leviners, Tumblers, Land Spaniels, Water Spaniels, Setters, Gentle Spaniel, Comforter Shepherd's Dog, Mastiff, Bandog Wap, Warner, Turnspit, Dancer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMar 29, 2011
    ISBN9781446548936
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      OF ENGLISH DOGS (VINTAGE DOG BOOKS BREED HISTORY SERIES) - Johannes Caius

      Of English Dogs

      The diversities, the names, the natures, and the properties

      A Short Treatise in Latin

      by

      Johannes Caius

      of late memory, Doctor of Physicke

      In the Universitie of Cambridge.

      And Newly drawne into Englishe

      by

      Abraham Fleming

      Student

      Vintage Dog Books

      Home Farm

      44 Evesham Road

      Cookhill, Alcester

      Warwickshire

      B49 5LJ

      vintagedogbooks.com

      © Read Books 2005

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing.

      ISBN No. 1-905124-05-8

      Published by Vintage Dog Books 2005

      Vintage Dog books is an imprint of Read Books

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library.

      Vintage Dog Books

      Home Farm

      44 Evesham Road

      Cookhill, Alcester

      Warwickshire

      B49 5LJ

      Contents

      Title

      Copyright

      The first Section of this discourse.

      The seconde Section of this discourse.

      The thirde Section of this abridgement.

      The fourth Section of this discourse.

      The fifth Section of this treatise.

      Index

      ¶ A Profopopoicall fpeache

      of the Booke.

      Some tell of starres th’influence straunge,

      Some tell of byrdes which flie in th’ayre,

      Some tell of beastes on land which raunge,

      Some tell of fishe in riuers fayre,

      Some tell of serpentes sundry sortes,

      Some tell of plantes the full effect,

      Of English dogges I sound reportes,

      Their names and natures I detect,

      My forhed is but baulde and bare :

      But yet my bod’ys beutifull,

      For pleasaunt flowres in me there are,

      And not so fyne as plentifull:

      And though my garden plot so greene,

      Of dogges receaue the trampling feete,

      Yet is it swept and kept full cleene,

      So that it yeelds a sauour sweete.

      Ab.Fle.

      PUBLISHER’S NOTICE

      The following pages are a reprint, line for line, and error for error, of the earliest book on dogs in the English language. We have not attempted to reproduce the whole of the book in fac-simile, as the original is printed in old English black letter, and it would therefore, have been tedious to the general reader; but the arrangement and the general character have been carefully reserved throughout, and the title page is an exact copy, taken by photography, of the one book in the British Museum.

      May, 1880

      DOCTISSIMO VIRO, ET

      Patrono fuo fingulari D. Perne, Elienfis

      ecclefiæ Cathedralis dignifsimo

      Decano, Abrahamus Flemingus,

      Scripfit non multis abhinc annis (op-time Patrone) et non impolitè scripsit, vir omnibus optimarum literarum remis instructissimus, de doctorum grege non malè meritus, tuæ dignitati familiaritatis nexu coniunctissimus, clarissimum Cantabrigiensis academiæ lumen, gēma, et gloria, Johannes Caius, ad Conradum Gesnerum summum suum, hominem peritissimum, indagatorem rerum reconditarum sagacissimum, pulcherrimaq. historiarum naturalium panoplia exornatü, epitomen de cambus Britannicis non tam breuem quàm elegantem, et vtilem, epitomen inquam variis variorum experimentorum argumentis concinnatam; in cuius titulum cũ forte incidissem, et nouitate re inonnihil delectarer, interpretationem Anglicam aggressus sum. Postquam vero finem penso imposuissem, repentina quædam de opusculi dedicatione cogitatio oboriebatur tādemque post multas multarum rerum iactationes, beneficiarum tuorum (Ornatīssime vir) vnica recordatio, instar rutilantis stellæ, quæ radiorum splendore quaslibet caliginosas teterrimæ obliuionis nebulas dissipat, et memoriæ serenitatem, plusquã solarem, inducit, mihi illuxit; nec nō officii ratio quæ funestissimis insensæ fortunæ fulminibus conquassata, lacerata, et convulsa, penè perierat, fractas vires multumq. debilitatas colligebat, pristinum robur recuperauit, tandemque aliquando ex Lethea illa palude neruose emergebat, atque eluctata est. Quã voraginē simulatque euaserat, sic effloruit, adeoque increuit, vt vnamquamque animi mei cellulã in sui ditionem atque imperii amplitudinem raperet. Nunc vero in contemplatione meritorum tuorum versari non desino, quorum magnitudinem nescio an tam tenui et leuidensi orationis filo possim circumscribere: Hoc, Ædepol, me non mediocriter mouet, non leuiter torquet, non languide pungit. Est præterea alia causa quæ mihi scrupulum injicit, et quodammodo exulcerat, ingrati nempe animi suspicio a qua, tanquam ab aliqua Lernæa Hydra, pedibus (vt aiunt) Achilleis semper fugi, et tamē valde pertimesco ne officij mora et procrastinatio (vt ita dicam) obscænam securitatis labem nomini meo inurat, coque magis expauesco quod peruulgatum illud atque decantatum poetæ carmen memoriæ occurrebat.

      Dedecus est semper sumere nilque dare.

      Sed (Ornatissime vir) quemadmodũ metus illius mali me magnopere affligebat atque fodicabat, ita spes alterius boni, nempe humanitatis tuæ, qua cæteris multis interuallis præluxeris, origit suffulcitque: Ea etiam spes alma et opima iubet et hortatur aliquod quale quale sit, officij specimen cum allacritate animi prodere. Hisce itaque persuasionibus victua me morigerum præbui, absolutamque de canibus Britannicis interpretationẽ Anglicam, tibi potissimum vtpote patrono singulari, et vnico Mæcenati dedicandū proposui: non quod tam ieiuno et exili munere immensum meritorum tuorum mare metiri machiner, non quod religiosas aures sacratasque, prophanæ paginæ explicatione obtundere cupiam, nec quod nugatoriis friuolisque narrationibus te delectari arbitrer, cum in diuinioribus excercitationibus totus sis: sed potius (cedat fides dicto) quod insignis ille egregiusque liber alium artium, et præcipuè medicæ facultatis princeps (qui hoc opusculum contexuit) ita viguit dum vixerat adeoque inclaruit, vt haud

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