CHAPTER XV 



OF GREYHOUNDS AND OF THEIR NATURE 



The greyhound is a kind of hound there be few 

 which have not seen some. Nevertheless for to 

 devise how a greyhound should be held for good 

 and fair, I shall devise their manner. Of all 

 manner of greyhounds there be both good and 

 bad, nevertheless the best hue is red fallow with 

 a black muzzle. The goodness of greyhounds 

 comes of right courage, and of the good nature 

 of their father and their mother. And also men 

 may well help to make them good in the encharn- 

 ing ^ of them with other good greyhounds, and feed 

 them well with the best that he taketh. The 

 good greyhound should be of middle size, neither 

 too big nor too little, and then he is good for all 

 beasts. If he were too big he is nought for small 

 beasts, and if he were too little he were nought 

 for the great beasts. Nevertheless whoso can 

 maintain both, it is good that he have both of the 

 great and of the small, and of the middle size. 

 A greyhound should have a long head and some- 



^ Encharning, feed with the flesh of game, to blood. 

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