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A treatiſe of

The ſeconde Section of this diſcourſe.

Of gentle Dogges seruing the hauke, and first of the Spaniell, called in Latine Hispaniolus.

SVch Dogges as ſerue for fowling, I thinke conuenient and requisite to place in this seconde Section of this treatise. These are also to bee reckoned and accounted in the number of the dogges which come of a gentle kind, and of those which serue for fowling.

There be two sortes The first findeth game on the land.
The other findeth game on the water.

Such as delight on the land, play their partes, eyther by swiftnesse of foote, or by often questing, to search out and to spying the byrde for further hope of aduauntage, or else by some secrete signe and priuy token bewray the place where they fall.

The first kinde of such serue The Hauke,
The seconde, The net, or, traine,

The first kinde haue no peculier names assigned vnto them, saue onely that they be denominated after the byrde which by naturall