86 THE MASTP:R OF GAME 



and then he bloweth a great blast with his nose, 

 and then he looketh fiercely, and beholdeth his 

 own sides and maketh semblant that he had flies 

 about him, and then he crieth. And when men 

 know such tokens men should take him from 

 the others until the fourth day, for then men 

 may see the sickness all clearly, or else that he is 

 not mad for some time. Many men be beguiled 

 in that way. And if any hound be mad of any 

 of the nine madnesses he shall never be whole. 

 And their madness cannot last but nine days ^ 

 but they shall never be whole but dead. That 

 other manner of madness is known by these signs : 

 In the beginning he doth as I said before, save 

 that they neither bite man nor beast save only the 

 hounds, as perilous is his biting as the first, and 

 ever more they go up and down without any 

 abiding. And this madness is called running 

 madness. And these two madnesses beforesaid 

 taketh the other hounds that they be with, though 

 they bite them not. That other madness is called 

 ragemuet (dumb madness) for they neither bite 

 nor run not, eke they will not eat for their mouth 



^ Du Fouilloux in his La Vc?icric (published 1561) coi)icd 

 much from Gaston de Foix's book, but either he or his editors 

 made the ridiculous mistake of saying nine months instead 

 of days. Turbervile, who translated, or rather cribbed, Du 

 Fouilloux's book, has copied this absurd mistake, and says 

 a hound may continue thus nine months, but not pnst (p. 

 222). 



