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Of the S tiles of Hmttng different from the. 

 Englijh both Antique cmd Forrein. 



THe Hunting ufed by the Antients was much like 

 that way which is at prefent taken with the 

 Kain-Deer^ which is feldom hunted at force or with 

 Hounds, but oncly drawn after with a Blood-hound, 

 and forcftaird with Nets and Engines. So did they 

 with all Beafts, and therefore a Dog is iiever commen- 

 ded by them for opening before he hath by fignesdifco- 

 vered where the Bea(t lieth in his Layre^ as by their 

 drawing (Hff our Harbourers are brought to give right 

 judgement- Therefore I do not hnde that they were 

 curious in the Mufick of their Hounds, or in a com- 

 pofition of their Kennel or Pack, either for deepnefs, 

 or loudnefs, or fweetnefs of cry like to ours. Their 

 Huntfmen were accuftomed to ftiout and make a 

 great noifc-, as Virgil obferves in the third of his Geor- 

 gicks: 



Ingentem cJamore premej ad retia Cervum, 



So that it was onely with that confufion to bring the 

 I^m- to the Nets laid for him. 



But we coMifort our Hounds with loud and coura- 

 geous Cries and Noifes, both ot Voice and Horn, that' 

 they may follow over the fame viay that they faw the 

 H^r/ pafs, without crofling or coaOing. 



The Sicilian way of Hunting was this : when the 

 Nobles or Gentry were informed which way a Herd 

 of Veer paiTed , giving notice to one another , they 

 appointed a meeting, and. every one brought with 



' him 



