8o THE MASTER OF GAME 



a hound has great diligence and great might, a 

 hound is of great worthiness and of great subtlety, 

 a hound is of great lightness and of great perse- 

 verance (?), a hound is of good obedience, for he 

 will learn as a man all that a man will teach him. 

 A hound is full of good sport ; hounds are so 

 good that there is scarcely a man that would not 

 have of them, some for one craft, and some for 

 another. Hounds are hardy, for a hound dare 

 well keep his master's house, and his beasts, and 

 also he will keep all his master's goods, and he 

 would sooner die than anything be lost in his 

 keeping. And yet to affirm the nobleness of 

 hounds, I shall tell you a tale of a greyhound 

 that was Auberie's of Moundydier, of which men 

 may see the painting in the realm of France in 

 many places. Aubery was a squire of the king's 

 house of France, and upon a day that he was 

 going from the court to his own house, and as he 

 passed by the woods of Bondis, the which is nigh 

 Paris, and led with him a well good and a fair 

 greyhound that he had brought up. A man that 

 hated him for great envy without any other 

 reason, who was called Makarie, ran upon him 

 within the wood and slew him without warning, 

 for Auberie was not aware of him. And when 

 the greyhound sought his master and found him 

 he covered him with earth and with leaves with 

 his claws and his muzzle in the best way that he 



