fccth before him. But if he be charged home, and hard 

 laid unto with the hounds, he will turn head and 

 fly. 



If you ftrike at him with your fword or Bo^r-fpear, 

 ftrikenot low, for then you will hit him on the fnout, 

 which he little values i for he watcheth to take blows 

 upon his tusks or thereabouts : but lifting up your 

 hand, ftrike right down, and have a fpecial care of your 

 horfe j for if you ftrike and hurt him, fo will he you if 

 he can. 



It behoveth the hunters of Boars to be very wary » 

 for he will run fiercely without fear upon his purfuers : 

 in which encounter, if he receive not his deaths wound, 

 he overthroweth his adverfary, except he fall flat on the 

 ground, jnd then he need not fear much harm ; for his 

 teeth cannot cut upward but downward : but it is o- 

 therwife with a female i for ftie will bite and tear any 

 way. 



It is good to raife this beaft early in the morning be- 

 fore he hath made water, for the burning of his bladder 

 doth quickly make him weary. 



When the Boar is firft raifed out of the wood, he 

 fnuffeth in the wind, lifting up his nofe to fmell what 

 is with him, and what againft him •, and rarely ftrikes a 

 man till he be firft wounded himfelf. 



The hunting-fpear mufi: be very fharp and broad, 

 branching forth into certain forks , fo that the Boar 

 may not break through them upon the huntfman : 

 The bell: places to wound him in therewith , are the 

 middle of his forehead betwixt his eye-lids, or eife 

 upon the . flioulder i either of thefe wounds is mor- 

 tal. 



If the Boar make head againft the- hunter, he mu(t 

 not fly for it, but muft meet him with his fpear, hol- 

 ding one hand on the middle of it, and the other at 

 the end, ftanding one foot before another, having 

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