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chapter treating ' How the huntesman shoulde go 

 drawing with his hounde in the springes.' 



' Immediately after supper, the huntsman should 

 go to his master's chamber, and if he serve a king- 

 then let him go to the Master of the Games' chamber 

 to know in what quarter he determineth to hunt the 

 day following, that he may know his own quarter ; 

 that done, he may goe to bed, to the end that 

 he may rise the earlier in the morning, according 

 to the time and season, and according to the 

 place where he must hunt ; then when he is uppe 

 and readie, let him drinke a good draught, and fetch 

 his hound to make him break his fast a little : and 

 let him not forget to fill his bottle with good wine ; 

 that done, let him take a little vinegar into the palm 

 of his hand, and put it in the nostrils of his hound 

 for to make him snuffe, to the end his scent may be 

 the perfect er ; then let him go to the wood.' After 

 advice to the huntsman to use caution in not going 

 too early to the springs, it continues : ' When the 

 huntsman perceiveth that it is time to begin to beat, 

 let him put his hound before him, and beat the out- 

 sides of springs and thickets ; and if he find an hart 

 or deer that likes him, let him mark well whether it 

 be fresh or not, whicli he may know as well by the 

 manner of his hound's drawing as also by the eye. 



