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of the fewmet,* he shoulde put them in his home 

 and bryng them also to the assembly.' 



Again in the thirty-first chapter, entitled, ' How 

 the huntsman should go to seeke an harte in small 

 groves or hewts, beyng privily enclosed within the 

 greater springs in the forests and strong coverts,' 

 the author writes thus : — 



' But here must you note one thing, that is, that 

 he may not go into suche places untill it be nine of 

 the clocke in the mornyng, bicause such hartes do 

 sometimes take harbrough or layre within these 

 little copisses, to enjoy the comforte of the sunne, 

 and about nine of the clocke they withdraw them- 

 selves to the shadow for two principall reasons, 

 whereof that one is for feare of the flies and horse- 

 flies, whiche w^oulde torment him if he were abrode : 

 the other, for to avoyde the vehement heate of the 

 sunne which would be at nones day. And the 

 huntesman must take goode heede that he enter 

 not over fast into the thicke, for that such hartes do 

 sometimes take layre very near those privie 

 coppyses, bicause they are neyther feared nor 

 styred. But it suffiseth for the if they be only 

 in covert. And also in such springs, they come out 



* This term is not now used in the West for the droppings of the 

 deer.— L. J. B. 



