41. How to belt sheep. 45 



12 gate. And whan the shepe are in the greate folde, 

 let .xl. of them, or there about, come into the myddle 

 folde, and steke the gate. And than let the shepeherde Let the 



shepherd 



tume them, and loke them on euery syde, and if he se examine 



■^ ■' them in the 



16 or f^-nde any shepe, that nedeth any helpynge or mend- ""ddie fold, 

 inge for any cause, lette the shepeherde take that shepe 

 with his hoke, and put h)Tn in the lyttell folde. And 

 whan he hath taken all that nedeth any mendjug, than 



20 put the other in-to whether pasture he wyll, and let in as 



many out of the greate folde, and take those that nede Pot the "sick 



ones in the 



any handling, and put them into the lyttell folde. And i'"Je fow. 

 thus peruse them all tyll he haue doone, and than let the 

 24 shepeherde go belte, grese, and handel all those that he 

 hath drawen, and than shall not the great flocke be taryed 

 nor kepte from theyr meate : and as he hath mended 

 them, to put them into theyr pasture. 



41. % To belte shepe. 

 If any shepe raye or be fyled with dounge about the [FoI. 29.] 

 the tayle, take a payre of sheres and cljrppe it awaye, and How to belt 

 cast dry muldes thervpon : and if it be in the heate of the 

 4 sommer, it wolde be rubbed euer with a l^iitell terre, to 

 kepe a'\*aye the flyes. It is necessarye that a shepeherde Ha'e a 

 haue a borde, set fast to the svde of his lyttell folde, to > ^heep 



' ■' upon. 



laye his shepe vpon when he handeleth theym, and an 

 8 hole bored in the borde with an augur, and therin a 

 gra}-ned staffe of two fote longe, to be set fast, to hang 

 his terre-boxe vpon, and than it shall not fall. And a a shepherd 



, 1 J 1 1 J wants a dog, 



shepeherde shoulde not go without his dogge, his shepe- a hook. 



shears, and 



1 2 hoke, a payre of sheres, and his terre-boxe, eyther with » tar-box. 

 hym, or redye at his shepe-folde, and he muste teche his 

 dogge to barke whan he wolde haue hym, to ronne whan 

 he wold haue hym, and to leue ronning whan he wolde 



16 haue hym ; or els he is not a cunninge shepeherd. The 

 dogge must lerne it, whan he is a whelpe, or els it w)'l 

 not be : for it is harde to make an olde dogge to stoupe. 



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