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uncouple and speak and so do as before is said. 

 And if they will seek a covert for the hare and set 

 greyhounds without, they should blow and seek and 

 speak in the manner as before is said, save that 

 if the hounds find anything what so ever it be, he 

 shall rally and jopey till he has seen it, or that he 

 knows what it is {and if it be an hare do as above is 

 said),^ and if it be ought else he shall blow drawing 

 with his horn and cry loud " So-how mon amy, 

 so-how, sto arere, so-how, so-howe^^ and seek forth- 

 with again with three long motes till the hare be 

 found. Tet nevertheless if they be hart-hunters 

 that seek a covert for the hare, and their hounds 

 find a fox, whoso meeteth with him should blow out 

 upon him to warn the fewterers '^ that there is a 

 thief in the wood. And if they run at the hare and 

 the hare happen to come out to the greyhounds in 

 front of the raches and be killed, the fewterer that 

 let run should blow the death and keep it as whole 

 as he may till the hunters be come, and then should 

 they reward the hounds as before is said. 



^ The words in brackets are in the Shirley MS. 

 2 Huntsman holding- hounds in leash. 



