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else (where) they should haste them thither where 

 they thought the hounds retrieved it ; or else to 

 meet with the hounds for to see the fues whether it 

 he the hunted deer or not. And if it is not he^ they 

 should do as above is said when they he on a styntj 

 and if it be he every man shall sfeed him that 

 sfeed may^ and every relay do as before is said. 

 And if any of the hunters haffen while they be on 

 a stynt to see a hart that he thinketh to be the 

 hunted deer he ought to blow a mote and recheat 

 and after that blow two motes for the hounds and 

 stand still before the fues till the Berner with the 

 hounds do come. And if they suffose that they 

 may not hear him he should draw to them till they 

 have heard him. And when any of the Berners or 

 the lymerer hear a man blow for them., they should 

 answer blowing in this wise in their horn : '' trut trut 

 trut^^^ but he should know readily by the fues after 

 the tokens that have been said before^ whether it be 

 the hunted deer or not. And in the same wise shall 

 a hunter do that findeth an hart quat (couched), 

 and he thinketh it to be the hunted deer., and he sees 

 that his fellows and the hounds be on a stynt., he 

 should well beware that he blow not too nigh him., 

 lest he start., and go away^ before the hounds come. 

 Nevertheless for to wit whether it be the hunted deer 

 or no, the tokens have been rehearsed before — and 

 when he hath been so well run to and enchased and 

 retrieved, and so oft relayed and vauntelayed to, and 



