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hounds blow three motes^ the one after the other and 

 uncouple there where they suppose the best ligging 

 (lair) is for a hart, and seek as before is said ; unless 

 it be the season when the harfs head is tender, then 

 he shall use some of the aforesaid words of seeking 

 to the hounds : ''Le douiez, mon amy, le douiez, 

 le doules^"^ and if his hounds find anything do as 

 before is said, and if it be a hart, do as above is 

 said, as he may know by his fues or by men that 

 meet with him. And if it be ought else, the berner 

 ought to blow drawing, and who meeteth with him 

 (the hart) call to them, and the berner should say 

 " ^to arere so how, so howP And if the lymerer 

 meet withal, or see by the fues that it is an hart, he 

 should sue thereto till he be dead. If it go to the 

 greyhounds and if it go to the bows, and be smitten 

 anon, as he findeth blood he should take up his 

 hounds and lead them thence and reward them a 

 little, and then if he escape out of the set, he should 

 reward his hounds, and take them up and go again 

 to the wood and look if he may meet with anything. 

 And as often as he meeteth and findeth, or his 

 hounds run on a fresh scent, do as before is said. 

 And one thing is to be known, that the hart-hounds 

 should never be uncoupled before any other, unless a 

 hart be readily harboured, and that he may be 

 sued to and moved with the lymer, or else that they 

 be uncoupled to a herd of great male deer at the 

 view, namely within a set in a forest or in a park. 



