deth forth his little Squire to be facrificed to the Dogs 

 and Huntfmen, inftead of himfelf i lying clofe in the 

 mean time : Then muft a Retreat be founded, and Croni' 

 pKC le chkns) the Dogs be broken off, and taken in (h 

 Limkr) that is, Leame again, until they be brought to 

 the fairer Game i who arifeth in fear, yet ftill ftriveth 

 by flight, until he be wearied and breathlefs. 



The Nobles call this beaft (Cerf fagt) a wife Hart^ 

 who, to avoid all his Enemies, runneth into the 

 greateft Herds, and fo bringeth a Cloud of errour 

 on the Dogs, to keep them from further profecution i 

 fometimes alfo beating fome of the Herd into his 

 Footings, that fo he may the more eafily efcape, and 

 procure a Labyrinth to the Dogs i after which he be- 

 taketh himfelf to his Heels again, running ftill with 

 the Wind, not onely for refrigeration, but becaufe he 

 may the more eafily hear the voice of his purfuersi 

 whether they be far or near. At laft, being for all this 

 found out again by the obfervance of the Hunters, and 

 skilful Scent of the Dogs, he flieth into the Herds of Cat- 

 tle, as Cows, Sheep, &c, leaping on an Ox or Cow, 

 laying the foreparts of his body thereon, that fo touch- 

 ing the Earth onely with his hinder Feet, to leave a ve- 

 ry fmall or no fcent at all behinde for the Hounds to 

 defcern. 



The chief Huntfraan to LeveU the twelfth, called (k 

 Grand Venienr) aftirmeth, that on a time, they having 

 a Hart in chafe, fuddenly the Hounds were at a fault, fo 

 as the Game was out of fight, and not aDog would once 

 ftir his foot, whereat the Hunters were all amazed i at 

 laft, by carting about, (as it is ufual infuch cafesythey 

 found the fraud of the crafty beaft, which is worth the 

 memory. 



There was a great White-thorn, which grew in a 

 (hadowy place as high as a Tree, and was environed with 

 other fmall fhrubs about it » into the which the faid 



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