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This Beaft is very eafie to hunt, and gceth to Rut 

 Cor Tourn raoft properly) in Odober^ the extent whereof 

 confiftsof Hfteen days, and never parteth with the Voe 

 till Fawning-time. 



TheDoe, finding her felf near her tinne,rccreily dejparts 

 from the Buck,^ and fawneth as far from him afta his 

 knowledge as (he can •-, for could he finde the Fawn^ he 

 would kill it. Now when the Fa^vn grows big, and can 

 run and feed, fhe then returns to the Bnck^ again very 

 lovingly, with all expedition : the caufe whereof, is the 

 Koes fawning Twins, which arc commonly Buck^ and 

 Voe\ fo that being accuftomed together in youth, they 

 do love to keep company ever after. 



As foon as the Koe-BHcJ^ comcth from Rut, he cafts 

 his Horns ; and there are few after two years old which 

 Mew not at Alhallontide^ but their Heads grow quickly 

 put again. 



The Venifon of a Roe is never out of feafon, being 

 never fat, and therefore they are to be hunted at any 

 time : onely this, fome favour ought to be (hewn the 

 T>oe whilft (he is big with Favn^ and afterwards till 

 her Fatpn is able to (hift for himfelf : bcfides, fome 

 Roe-T>oes have been killed with Hve Parvus in their 

 belly. 



They ufually when hunted, take a large flrft Ring, 

 and afterwards hunt'the Hounds. 



When they are hunted, they turn muck and ofien, 

 and comeback upon the Dogs directly : When they 

 can no longer endure, they then take Soil, as the Hart 

 doth, and will hang by a bough in fuch manner, that 

 nothing (hall appear of them above Water but their 

 Snout, and will (ulTer the Dogs to come j.ull upon thcra 

 before they will ftir. 



He is not called by the skilful in the Art of Hunting 

 a Great Roe - Buck,, but a Fair Roe - Bttck^ The Herd 

 pf them is called a B.eavy : And if he hath, not Bsav^> 

 G 4; greafc; 



