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or else perchance they have some young brocket 

 with them in company alwayes whereby the hunts- 

 man may be beguylecl' 



'You shall understand herewith that when a hart 

 feeles that ye houndes hold in after him, he fleeth 

 and seeketh to beguyle the : with chaunge in sundry 

 sortes, for he will seeke other hartes and deare at 

 layre, and rowzeth them before the houndes to 



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' He will lie flat downe.' 



make them hunte chaunge ; therewithal! he will lie 

 flat downe upon his bellie in some of their layres, 

 and so let the houndes ov^ershoote him : and bicause 

 they should have no sent of him, nor vent him, will 

 trusse al his iiii feete under his belly, and will blow 

 and breath upo y^ grounde in some moyst place ; in 

 such sort yt I have seen the houndes passe by such 

 an harte within a yeard of him, and never vet him : 



