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The history of four-footed beasts and serpents. (1658)

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?, Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604, Rowland, John, M.D · London, Printed by E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge [etc.] · leaf 137

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yet are thefe taughtby Falconers to retrive and raife Partridges,for they firft take them into the fields, andfhew.them Partridges, whom after theyhave favoured twice or thrice, by cuftom they ^remember, and being uncoupled, will beftir Jthemfelves into all corners to finde them, be- ^ing after a… … Nare fagax alius, campifque undifque volucresgiftrit, & aduncus hue indefetfus & illinc.Vifcurrit.- Of the mixt kinde of Dogs callecd in EngHJh MA NO It E LS or MONG RELS. THofe we call Mangrels, which though they be on iboth fides propagated by Dogs, yet arethey not of one kinde : for as…

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