it belli a Hedge-fide or thicket, then, whilft the Hart is 

 rtaring on the Hounds, you may come covertly among 

 the bufhes behinde him, and cut his Throat. If you 

 mifs your aim, and the Hart turn head upon you, then 

 make fonie Tree ypur refuge *, or when the Hart is at 

 Bay, couple up your Hounds, and when you fee the 

 Hurt turn head to fly, gallop in roundly to him, and kill 

 him with your Sword. 



Vire&ions at the Death of Buck or Hart. 



The firft Ceremony when the Huntfmen come in 

 to the Death of a Veer^ is to cry IFare Haunch^ that 

 the Hounds may not break into the Veeri which ha- 

 ving fecured, the next is cutting his Throat, and there 

 blooding the youngeli Hounds, that they may the bet- 

 ter love a Deer^ and learn to leap at his Throat i then, 

 ' having blown the Mort, and all the company come 

 in, the belt perfon, that hath not taken Say before, is 

 to take up che Knife that the Keeper or Huntfman is 

 to lay crofs the Belly of the D^^r, ftanding clofe to 

 the left Shoulder of the Veer ^ fome holding by the 

 Fore - legs , and the Keeper or Huntfman drawing 

 down the Pizle, the perfon that takes Say, is to draw 

 the edge of the Knife leifurely along the very middle 

 of the Belly, beginning near the Brisket i and drawing 

 a little upon it, enough in the length and depth to difco- 

 ver how fat the Veer is, then he that is to break up 

 the Veer hrlt llits the Skin from the cutting of the 

 Throat downward, making the Arber, that fo the 

 Ordure may not break forth •, and then he is to pounch 

 him, rewarding the Hounds therewith. Next, he is 

 to prefent the fame pexCon that took the Say with a 

 drawn Hanger, to cut off' the Head i which done, 

 and the Hounds rewarded therewith, the concluding 

 Ceremony is , if a Buck, a double, if a Stag a treble 



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