1 66 THE MASTER OF GAME 



And there where most danger is, there set the 

 readiest hunters and the best footers with the 

 boldest hounds with them. And at every relay 

 suficeth two coufle of hounds or three at the most. 

 And see that amid the relays, somewhat toward the 

 hinder-most relay, especially if it be in danger, that 

 one of the lymerer^s pages be there with one of the 

 lymers. And the more danger (there is) the older 

 and the readier, and the most tender nosed hound. 

 And when all is ordained then shall the Lord and 

 the Master of the Game, if he liketh better to be at 

 the finding than with a relay, shall go thither where 

 the deer is harboured, and set ready waits about the 

 quarter of the wood that the deer is in, to see what 

 Cometh out, or to see if the deer that is harboured 

 would start and steal away ere the lymer moved him. 

 And this done, then should the Lord and Master of 

 the Game bid the lymerer bring them there where 

 he marked that the hart went in, and when they be 

 there the lymerer should take away the boughs he 

 laid over the trace at the harbouring, and set his 

 lymer in the fues, and then shall the Lord if he can 

 blow, blow three motes, and after him the Master of 

 the Game, and after the hunters, as they be greatest 

 in office, that be at the finding, and then the lymerer. 

 And after that if the lymer sue boldly and lustily 

 the lymerer shall say to him loud ; " Ho moy, ho 

 moy, hole hole hole.'''' And ever take good heed to 

 his feet, and look well about him. And as oft as he 



