100 £)f patK^ anti c^iaiten^. 



and that you fee the Hounds are well in with it, ftjck- 

 ing well upon it, then you may come in nearer with 

 the Hounds, becaufe by that time their heat will be 

 cooled, and they will hunt more foberly. But above 

 all things mark the Hrft doubling, which mutt be your 

 diredion for the whole day, for all the doublings that 

 (he afterwards (hall make will be like the former : and 

 according to the policies that you (hall fee her ufe, and 

 the place where you hunt, you rnuft make your compaf^ 

 fes great or little, long or fhort, to help the defaults, al- 

 ways fecking the moitkft and moft commodious places 

 for the Hounds to fcent in. . 



To conclude, thofe who delight in the commendable 

 Exercife of Hunting the Hare^ murt rife early, left they be 

 deprived of the fcent of her foot-lkps, by which means 

 the Dogs will be incapacitated to follow their Game i 

 for the nature of the fcent is fuch, that it will not remain 

 long, but fuddainly, in a manner every hour, vanilheth 

 away. 



Of Parks and. Warrens. 



HAving thus difcourfed of the Nature and Pro- 

 perties •oi the Hare, together with the manner 

 of hunting them i in the next place I hold it not im- 

 proper in Ihort to fpeak fomething of Parks and en- 

 clofed Warrens, wherein Hares, Coneys, Veer, Sec. may 

 always be ready as it were out of a Store- houfe or Se- 

 minary to ferve the wfe and pleafure of their Ma- 

 iler?. 



The firft Koman that ever enclofcd wild BeaOs , 

 was Ftilvius Hirfinui ■•, and Varco had the hr(l Warren 

 of Hares. ■ The largeft Hare PaiHs th^t ever 1 heard 

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