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fully under locke and key in the kennell, and be walked every day half an 
houre abroade in a line, and her kennell shifted euery weeke once. And it 
were yery necessarie before you breed your whelps, that you should see your 
breeding Hounds recouer a chase very farre fled afore, and driue and sticke at 
the marke, and not fling about: and then may you be bold to breede 
foureteene or sixteene couple of whelps that will serue you to hunt foure 
seuerall chases, that is, the fine and cunning Hare, the sweet sented Roe, the 
hot sented Stag, and the dubling Bucke when he groweth wearie. 
How to enter your whelps at the Hare. 
Hen your whelps be full twentie moneths old and a quarter, then 
must you begin to enter them at Michaelmas in manner and forme 
following. 
You must borrowe two or three couple of fine Hariors, such as will hunt a 
Hare cunningly to the seate, and when your Hounds haue found the outgate of 
a Hare from the pasture, and bee of a perfect single gate : then must you haue 
foure men with foure whelps in lines, which haue been a little entred before at 
Conies, and surely chastized from sheepe and other cattell. Such as leade the 
whelps must come in and let the whelps feele the sent in the soile of the old 
Hounds feete that be before them. And all those that leade the whelps must 
still come neere the old Hounds till the Hare be start, and not cast off their 
whelps but use this course a weeke together, and crosse and meete, and let the 
__ whelps alwaies feele the sent in the soile of the olde Hounds feete, and in one 
. weeke being well applied, those whelps will be made to spend their mouthes 
fast in the line, which you may then let loose and take others, and use in the 
same order with them: so that by All Saints day, you shall -haue entred all 
_ your whelps. 
Some doo use to enter their whelps in couples, which manner of entring I 
doo not so well like of as in the lines for two causes. The one, for that they 
will range abroad more at libertie, than if they were led in lines. The other, 
for that being in couples the one will draw forward, the other backward, and 
_ heuer prooue so errant or earnest hunters as the other that bee entered in 
lines: for the Huntsman may helpe the whelpe he hath in the line with 
; putting downe his finger or staffe to the ground, where he seeth the old 
_ Hounds haue taken the sent. 
The order how to hunt the Hare when you haue entred your whelps. 
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. ZOU must choose out the plainest ground you can finde neere unto you, 
ae and take with you to the field three Huntsmen, which must obserue 
this order, both to the seate and when the Hare is found. After 
your whelps are all let loose, and haue found their noses, your chiefe Hunts- 
