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shape, when the tines be well grown in the beam 

 by good measure, one near the other, then it is 

 called well affeted. Well grown is when the 

 head is of great beam and is well affeted and 

 thick tined, well high and well opened (spread). 

 That other head is called counterfeit (abnormal) 

 when it is different and is otherwise turned behind 

 or wayward in other manner than other common 

 deer be accustomed to bear. That other high 

 head is open, evil affeted. with long tines and 

 few. That other is low and great and well 

 affeted with small tines. And the first tine that 

 is next the head is called antler, and the second 

 Royal and the third above, the Sur-royal, and the 

 tines 1 which be called fourth if they be two, and 

 if they be three or four or more be called troching. 

 And when their heads be burnished at the colliers' 

 pits commonly they be always black, and also 

 commonly when they be burnished at the colliers' 

 pits they be black on account of the earth which 

 is black of its kind. And when they are burnished 

 against rock they abide all white, but some have 

 their heads naturally white and some black. And 

 when they be about to burnish they smite the 

 ground with their feet and welter like a horse. 

 And then they burnish their heads, and when 

 they be burnished which they do all the month 

 of July they abide in that manner till the feast of 

 1 Shirley MS. has the addition here : "Which be on top." 



