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he marked over night, and let him get up into it, 

 lookyng into the spring, and if he espie an hart 

 which Hke him, then let him marke what head he 

 beareth, and let him not sturre from thence until he 

 see him go to harborough. Afterwardes, when he 

 seeth that he is in the thicke, he must marke the 

 place whereaboutes he entred by some little pretie 

 tree or such like thing, that beyng done he shall 

 come doune and go fetche his hounde : but here he 

 shall marke one secrete : that he go not aboute to 

 harbor an harte an hour at least after he see him go 

 to layre, bycause sometimes an harte goeth to layre 

 at the bordure of the thicket, or els will come backe 

 thither to hearken or see if anything there be which 

 might annoy them, as I have sayde before : and 

 therefore the huntesman should not go too soone. 

 And, furdermore, if in a casting about the covert, 

 he hear eyther pies, jays, or such birds wondering, 

 then let him withdraw him, and stand close, for that 

 is a token that the harte is yet on foote ; and then let 

 him stay halfe an houre longer before he make his 

 ringwalke. And when he hath wel and surely 

 harbored him, he may go backe to the assembly 

 and make reporte thereof, and descyfer the harte's 

 head which he hath seene, with all other good 

 markes and tokens. And if he have taken up any 



