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what large made, resembling the making of a 

 bace^ (pike). A good large mouth and good 

 seizers the one against the other, so that the 

 nether jaw pass not the upper, nor that the upper 

 pass not the nether. Their eyes are red or black 

 as those of a sparrow hawk, the ears small and 

 high in the manner of a serpent, the neck great 

 and long bowed like a swan's neck, his chest great 

 and open, the hair under his chyn hanging down 

 in the manner of a lion.^ His shoulders as a 

 roebuck, the forelegs straight and great enough 

 and not too high in the legs, the feet straight and 

 round as a cat, great claws, long head as a cow ^ 

 hanging down. 



The bones and the joints of the chine great 

 and hard like the chine of a hart. And if his 

 chine be a little high it is better than if it were 

 flat. A little pintel and little ballocks, and well 

 trussed near the ars, small womb,* the hocks 

 straight and not bent as of an ox, a cat's tail 



1 Should be " luce," and G. de F. has " luz," from Lat. lucius, 

 pike, p. 103. 



"^ G. de Y., p. 104, says : "La harpe bien avalée en guise de 

 Hon," harpe meaning in this instance " flanks." 



^ "Long head as a cow" is evidently a mistake of translator 

 or scribe. G. de F. has : " le costé lone comme une biche et 

 bien avalé" ("the sides long as a hind, and hanging down 

 well"). 



* The following words should be added here, a line having 

 been omitted by the scribe : "and straight near the back as a 

 lamprey, the thighs great and straight as a hare." They are 

 in Shirley MS. and G. de F., p. 104. 



