THE 



ART OF DEER-STALKING. 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE NATUKE AND HABITS OF THE BED DEER. 



I am a hart by Greekes surnamed so, 

 Because my head doth with their tearmes agree ; 

 For stately shape few such on earth do goe, 

 So that by right they have so termed me. 

 For king's delight it seems I was ordayned, 

 Whose huntsmen yet pursue me day by day, 

 In forrest, chace, and parke, I am constrained 

 Before their hounds to wander many a way. 

 Wherefore who lyst to learne the perfect trade 

 Of venerie, and therewith all would know 

 What properties and virtues nature made 

 In me poor hart (O harmlesse hart !) to grow, 

 Let him give hear to skilfull Trystram's lore 

 To Phoebus, Fowylloux, and many more.* 



" CERVUS Elaphus, cornibus ramosis, teretilus, rccurvatis" 

 Linn. Eight cutting teetli in the upper jaw, and none 

 in the lower. 



This species of Deer is met with throughout the greater 

 part of Europe ; and following the authority of Shaw, and 

 other writers on natural history, I had mentioned, in the 



* The Noble Art of Venerie (translated from the French), p. 39. 



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