132 THE MASTER OF GAME 



that it is a hart chaceable of ten, that should not 

 be refused. And if he sees an hart's foot that 

 hath these signs aforesaid the which are great and 

 broad, he may say that it is an hart that some 

 time had borne ten tines, and if he see that the 

 aforesaid signs are greater and broader he may 

 say that it is a great hart and an old (one), and 

 this is all he may say of the hart. Also he should 

 call the foot of the hart the trace, and of the 

 wild boar also. Also the hunters of beyond the sea 

 call of an hart and of a boar the routes and 

 the pace (path) and both is one. Nevertheless 

 pace, they call their goings where a beast goes 

 in the routes, there where he has passed, never- 

 theless I would not set this in my book, but for 

 as much as I would English hunters should know 

 some of the terms that hunters use beyond the sea, 

 but not with intent to call them so in England. 



