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findeth the fues, or if it he in thick spires,^ boughs 

 or branches broken, where the deer hath walked, he 

 should say aloud — " Cy va — cy va — cy va^'^ and 

 rally with his horn, and always should the yeoman 

 berner the which is ordained to be finder, follow the 

 lymer and be as nigh him as he might with the 

 raches that he leadeth for the finding, and if the 

 lymer as he sueth, overshoot and be out of the fues, 

 the lymerer should always, till his hounds be fallen 

 in again, speak to him, calling his name, be it 

 Loyer, or Beaumont, or Latimer or Bemond ac- 

 cording to what the hound is named, and anon as 

 he falls in again and finds the fues or branches as 

 before is said he shall say loud, " Cy va^"^ as before 

 and rally and so forth at every time that he findeth 

 thereof, until that the lymer move him. Never- 

 theless I have seen when a lymer sueth long and 

 could not so soon move him as men would, that they 

 have taken up the lymer and uncoupled one or two 

 hounds, to have him sooner found, but this truly no 

 skilful hunter ought to do, unless the lymer cannot 

 put it forth, nor bring it any further, or that the 

 deer be stirring in the quarter, and hath not waited 

 for the moving of the lymer. Or else that it be so 

 far advanced in the day, that the sun hath dried up 

 the fues, and that they have little day enough to run 

 him and hunt him with strength. But now to come 

 again to the lymer ^ it is to wit that when the lymer 



^ Shoots, fresh-growing young wood. 



