ABSTRACT
So now it is ordinary for the Gray-hound t o couple with the Maftive, the Hound with the GrayHound, the Maftive with the Shepheards D o g , and the Shepheards D o g with any other Cur or Beagle: of thefe kindes we will now fpeak in order . And it is not to be omitted, that this commixtion j of kindes have been invented by Hunters for the amendment of fome natural faul t , or de fed they found in the Monophyli, that is, one fingle kinde, and fo hereby they added fome qualities to their kinde which they wanted before either in ftrength of body,or craft of wi t : for they derive both
Commlxtion 0 f thefe f rom their Sires, wherefore Oppiams declareth, that in the commixtion of D o g s , the Anciof kindes in e n t s COupled together thtfe kindes, the Arcadians with the Eleians, the Cretenfians with the Ftonians, procreation. ^ Q a r i g m w j t h the Ihracians, the Lacedemonians with the Tyrrhenian, the Sarmatian with the Iberian,
and the Gallican Dogs with the Vmbrian, becaufe they want the quick fenfe of fmelling: according t o thefe verfes:
Quondam inconfultis mater dabit VmbrmGallis Senfum agilem, traxere animosde parte Gelonx Hyr cam & van,t tantum Caledonia lingu* Exibit vitium patre emendata MoloJJb.
