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says, “to be counted among the beasts of venery 
which are chaseable with hounds, for he is the 
proper prey of a mastiffe and such like dogs, for 
as much as he is a heavy beast and of great force, 
trusting and asseying himselfe in his tuskes and his 
strength, and therefore will not so lightly flee nor make 
chase before hounds. So that you cannot (by hunting 
of the Bore) know ye goodnesse or swiftness of them, 
and there withall to confesse a truth, I think it a 
great pitie to hunte (with a good kenell of hounds) at 
such chases: and that for such reasons and considera- 
tions as followe. 
“First, he is the onely beast which can dispatch a 
hound at one blow, for though other beasts do bite, 
snatch, teare, or rend your houndes, yet there is 
hope of remedie if they be well attended; but if a 
Bore do once strike your hounde, and light betweene 
the foure quarters of him, you shall hardly see 
him escape ; and therewithall this subtiltie he hath, 
that if he be run with a good kenell of hounds, 
which he perceiveth holde in rounde and followe him 
harde, he will flee into the strongest thicket that he 
can finde, to the end he may kill them at his leisure 
one after another; the which [ have seene by experience 
oftentimes. And amongst others, I saw once a 
Bore chased and hunted with fiftie good hounds 
at the least, and when he saw that they were 
all in full crie and helde in round together, he 
turned heade upon them, and thrust amiddest 
the thickest of them in such sorte that he slew 
sometimes sixe or seaven in [this] manner in the 
