by Sir Thomas Cockaine. 115 
By that time you haue killed half a skore Cubbes in this sorte in seuerall 
Couerts or Woods, and haue taken two or three quicke Cubbes to make your 
Terriars withall, you will finde your Hounds well and perfect. 
This order of entring your whelps should. be begun a fortnight or thrée 
wéekes before Bartholmewday, and continued untill the feast of All Saints. 
The order to be obserued in hunting the Foxe. 
He you haue entred your whelps (as before is said) you must chuse 
out of your fourteene couple two couple to be trailors of an olde 
Foxe and finders of him. ‘The rest of the Hounds must bee kept 
in couples by your seruants, and made so obedient that no Hound shall breake 
_ the couples, or offer to goe away to the finders, untill the Huntsman doe per- 
_ fectly understand that the Hounds he cast off before haue found the Foxe: 
and then may he uncouple all the hounds that he hath to the finders, but two 
couple of the slowest, which must be kept to followe the Huntsman his héeles, 
in great obedience to the man, with one couple of the best Terriars. The 
other couple of your Terriars should bée used to hunt with the rest of the 
hounds. 
The old Foxe being well breathed is so forcible a chase, as euery Huntsman 
his part is to hew him, or backe him into the Couert againe, when hee offereth 
to breake the same, and to hallowe him and helpe the Hounds wheresoeuer he 
can, and to comfort them both with voyce and horne, that all trauailers passing 
that way, may knowe that it isa Foxe that is hunted. ‘ 
And this tast I will give you of the flying of this chase, that the Author 
hereof hath killed a Foxe distant from the Couert where hee was found, 
fouretéen miles aloft the ground with Hounds. 
By that time either Noble man or Gentleman hath hunted two yeares with 
one packe of Hounds, the same will hunt neither Hare nor Conie, nor any 
other chase saue a vermine. 
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