Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

De alijs proprietatibus canum, Chap. 27.

GOundes haue other propertyes that be not full good, for hounds haue con∣tinuall Bolisme, that is immederate ap∣petite, and be sometime punished with hunger, that they waxe rabbish and mad: for houndes haue sicknesse and euilles, baldnesse, squinatye, and madnesse, as A∣stotle sayth, libro. 7. And all beastes that be bitten of a mad hound, waxe madde, except men alone, that scape sometime by helpe of medicine. And Constan. sayth in Viatico. li. viti. that an hound is kind∣ly cold and dry, and blacke. Cholera hath mastrie in him. And if Cholera be much rotted and corrupt, it maketh the hound madde. And this falleth most in haruest and in springing time. And other hounds flye and voyde the madde hound; as pe∣stilence and venim: and he is alway exi∣••led; as it were an outlawe, and goeth a∣lone wagging and rowling as a dronken beast, and runneth yaning, & his tongue hangeth out, and his mouth driueleth and foameth, and his eyen vs euertourned and reared, & his eares lie backward, and his faile is wrickled by the legges and thighes: and though his eyen bée open, yet hée stumbleth and spurneth against all thing, and barketh at his owne shadow. Other houndes dreade him and flie and barke against him. And no hounds come nigh the bread that is wet in the bloud of the wounde of his biting. And those that bée bitten of him, dreame in theyr sléepe dreadfull dreames, and bée afearde in sléeping, and that commeth of rotten∣nesse of corruption, and be wroth and a∣stonied without cause, and looke and be∣holde aboute••, though nothing grieueth them: and if this eulil increase, then they begin to dreade and haue abhomination of all drinke, and then they dread water, and barke as houndes, and dread so wa∣ter, that they fall for dreade, and such die, but they be the sooner holpen with medi∣cine. Cures and remedyes looke before libro de Morbis, cap. de Veneno. Libro 29. Plinius sayth, that vnder the houndes tongue lyeth a Worme that maketh the hounde madde, and if this worme bée ta∣ken out of the tongue, then the euill cea∣seth. Also he sayth, that the violence and biting of a madde hound is so much, that his vrine grieueth a man if he treadeth thereon, and namely if hée haue a Botch or a wound. Also who that throweth his owne vrine vpon the vrine of a mad hound, he shall anone féele sore ach of the neather guts and of the lends.

Also an hound is wrathfull and ma∣licious, so that for is awreak himselfe, he biteth oft the stone that is throwen to him: and biteth the stone with great mad∣nesse, that he breaketh his own teeth, and grieueth not the stone, but his owne téeth full sore. Also he is guidefull and decei∣cable, and so oft he sickleth and fawneth with his tayle on men that passeth by the waye; as though he were a friends; and biteth them sore, if they take no héede backewarde. And the Hounde hateth stones and rods, and is bolde and hardye among them that hée knoweth, & busieth to bite and to feare all other, and is not bold when he passeth among straungers. Also he is couetous and gluttonous, and eateth therefore di••••••rde••: so gréedely, y^t he perbraketh and tasteth it vp, but after∣ward when he is ••n hungred, he taketh again that y^t he cast vp in foule manner. Also the hounds ••••••••tous, and therefore Auicen saith, y^t he gathereth hearbs pri∣uely, by whom he purgeth himselfe with perbraking and casting, and hath anuye, and is right forrys if any man knoweth the vertue of those hearbes: and is also euill apaide, if any straunge houndes and vnknowne come into the place there hée dwelleth, and breadeth least he should face the worse for the other hounds presence,

and fighteth with him therefore. Also hée is couetous & scarse, and busie to lay vp & to hide the reliefe that he leaueth. And therefore he communeth not, nor giueth flesh and marrow boanes, that hée maye not deuoure to other houndes, but layeth them vp busily and hideth them vntil he hungreth againe. Also he is vncleane and lecherous. And so, li. 6. Aristot. saith, that hounds both male and female vse leche∣ry as long as they be aliue, & giue them to vncleannesse of lechery, y^t they take no diuersitie betwéene mother and sister, and other bitches touching the déede of leche∣rie: and therefore offering of the price of an hounde or of a Bitch was accounted as vncleane by the law of Moses, as offe∣ring of y^e price of a common woman: for such wretched persons serue in al lechery as hounds doe.

Also an olde hound is oft slowe and heauy. And so libr. 7. Aristotle saith, that houndes in age haue y^e podagre, & few of them scape that euill, and therefore they sleepe in daytime vpon dunghills among flyes and other wormes, and be then fore grieued with Flyes, that be about theyr bleared eyen, and about theyr scabbed ei∣en. And though they bite and pearce som∣time the houndes eares, yet for slouth he taketh no comfort and strength to chase and driue them away: but vnneth when they flye agaynst his face, hée snatcheth at them with his mouth, and busieth to bite them with his téeth. And at the last the scabbed hound is violentlye drawen out of the dunghill with a roape or with a whippe bounde about his necke, and is drowned in the riuer, or in some other Water, and so hée endeth his wretched lyfe. And his skinne is not taken of, nor his fleshe is not eaten nor buryed, but left finallye to Flies and to other diuerse wormes.