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when he stood still in covert he was stalling. When he 

 was tired he ^^cast his chaule^'' i.e. drooped his head, a 

 well-known sign when the deer is done, as was his closed 

 mouth when dead beat. 



The hart was rncved or moved, when he was started 

 from his resting-place ; he was quested or hunted for, and 

 sued or chased ; his resting-place was called his Hgging or 

 lair^ his scent of line of flight, his/«^;. He was spoken 

 of as soule or soile (F. seule) if unaccompanied by other 

 deer, and in ^^ herd zuith rascal and folly'*^ if keeping com- 

 pany with lesser deer. 



Besides many other quaint terms of venery the follow- 

 ino; were the designations given to the hart according to 



Until he was a hart of ten our text tells us he was not 

 considered a chaseable or warrantable deer. By the 

 above one will see that the "Master of Game " is excep- 

 tional in calling a deer of the second year a bullock, 

 brocket being the usual term. 



In old French literature we occasionally find the word 

 broches used for the tines of a deer's antlers ; brochet 

 would be the diminutive, i.e. a small tine, and hence 

 perhaps brocket, a young stag bearing small tines. Any 

 stag of ten or over if hunted by the king became a Hart 

 Royal, and if hunted and not taken, but driven out of 

 the forest, a proclamation was made to warn every one 

 that no person should chase or kill the said hart, and he 

 was then a " Hart Royal proclaimed " (Man., p. 180). 



All stags not chaseable, such as young or lean stags 

 and hinds, were classed as folly or rascal. 



