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that he seeth that (neither) by beating uf the rivers 

 nor brooks nor foiling him down, nor going to soil, 

 nor rusing to and fro upon himself which is to say in 

 his own fues, can help him, then turns he his head 

 and standeth at bay. And then as far as it may 

 be heard every man draweth thither, and the know- 

 ing thereof is that the hunter that cometh first, and 

 the hunters (one) after the other they holloa all 

 together, and blow a mote and rechace all at once. 

 And that they never do but when he is at bay or 

 when bay is made for the hounds, after he is dead, 

 when they should be rewarded or enquerreyde) 

 And when the hunters that held the relays be there, 

 or that they be nigh the bay, they should pull off 

 the couples from the hounds' necks and let them draw 

 thither. And the hunters should break the bay as 

 often as they can for two causes ; the 07ie lest he 

 (the stag) hurt the hounds, if he stand and rest long 

 in one place ; another is that the relays that stand 

 far can come up with their hounds the while he is 

 alive, and be at the death. And it is to be known 

 that if any of the hunters have been at any time 

 while the deer hath been run to out of hearing of 

 hound and horn, he should have blown the forloyne^' 

 unless he were in a park, for there it should never 

 be blown. And whoso first heard him so blow 



^ See Appendix : Curée. 



2 A horn signal denoting that the chase is being followed at 

 a distance by those who blow. From the Yr.fortloin, written 

 forlonge. See Appendix : Forlonge. 



