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Jindeth the fues, or if it he in thick s^pires^ houghs 

 or hranches broken^ where the àeer hath walked^ he 

 should say aloud — " Cy va — cy va — cy va^'' and 

 rally with his horn, and always should the yeoman 

 herner the which is ordained to he finder, follow the 

 lymer and he as nigh him as he might with the 

 r ache s that he leadeth for the finding, and if the 

 lymer as he sueth, overshoot and he out of the fues, 

 the lymerer should always, till his hounds he fallen 

 in again, sfeak to him, calling his name, he it 

 Loyer, or Beaumont, or Latimer or Bemond ac- 

 cording to what the hound is named, and anon as 

 he falls in again and finds the fues or hranches as 

 hefore is said he shall say loud, " Cy va " as hefore 

 and rally and so forth at every time that he findeth 

 thereof, until that the lymer move him. Never- 

 theless I have seen when a lymer sueth long and 

 could not so soon move him as men would, that they 

 have taken up the lymer and uncoupled one or two 

 hounds, to have him sooner found, hut this truly no 

 skilful hunter ought to do, unless the lymer cannot 

 put it forth, nor hring it any further, or that the 

 deer he stirring in the quarter, and hath not waited 

 for the moving of the lymer. Or else that it he so 

 far advanced in the day, that the sun hath dried up 

 the fues, and that they have little day enough to run 

 him and hunt him with strength. But now to come 

 again to the lymer, it is to wit that when the lymer 



^ Shoots, fresh-growing young wood. 



