102 £)f Coitep catcDintj. 



Inter Aves Ittrdm ft quU in Judice certet. 

 Inter ^adrupedes gloria prima Lepm. 



Amongli: all Birds none with the Thmfh compare, 

 And no Beaft hath more glory than the Hare, 



Of Conty -Catching. 



BEfore we fpeak of the Hunting of the Coney^ it will 

 not -be amifs to take notice ot her nature and pro- 

 perties, which are ihele : (he carrieth her young in her 

 Belly thirty days i as (oon as (he hath kirdned (he goes 

 to Buck. They begin to breed in England at a year old 

 fbat fooner in other places) and fo continue, bearing at. 

 kail feven times in a year if they Litter \n March \ this 

 is the reafon that a fmall ftcck will ferve to increafe a 

 large VVarien. The Does cannot fuckle their young till 

 they have been with the Buck, wh.ich muft be done pre- 

 fently, or (he will not be inclined fourteen days after. 



when the Buck goes to Doe, he will beat very 

 llrongly with his fore- Foot upon the ground, and by 

 that means he heateth liimfelf. When he hath buckr, 

 he is accutioir.ed to fall backwards, and lie as if he 

 were in a Trance or half dead, at which time he is eafily 

 taken. 



The Laiincf call a Coney^ Cuniculm^ becaufe it maketh 

 holes in the Earth \ and Citmculiis was a Latine word 

 for a Hole'or Give in the Earth, before it was taken for 

 a Coney. 



Ihe Bucks will kill the young. if they can com? at 

 them, like to your Errc-cats *, and therefore the Dec 

 prevents that mifchic-l-, by covering her Stop or Nelt 



with 



