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aforesaid term. This madness stretcheth to no 

 other hound nor man or beast. That other 

 madness is called flank madness, 1 for they be so 

 sore and tucked up by the middle of the flanks 

 as though they never ate meat, and pant in their 

 flanks with much pain, and will not eat, but stoop 

 low with the head and always look downwards, 

 and when they go they take up their feet high 

 and go rolling as a drunken man. This madness 

 stretcheth to no other hound nor to any other 

 things, and they die as it is said before. The other 

 madness is called sleeping madness, for they lie 

 always and make semblant as if they were asleep, 

 and so they die without meat. This sickness 

 stretcheth to no other thing. That other madness 

 is called madness of head. Nevertheless all mad- 

 nesses are of foolishness of the head and of the 

 heat of the heart, for their head becometh great 

 and swelleth fast. They eat no meat and so they 

 die in that madness. This madness stretcheth to 

 no other thing. And certainly I never saw a 

 hound that had any of all these madnesses that 

 ever might be healed. Nevertheless many men 

 think sometime that a hound be mad when it 

 is not so, and therefore the best proof that any 

 man may do, is to draw him from the other hounds 

 and assaye him three whole days each one after 



1 " Lank madness" in Turbervile, p. 223. Tucked up. G. de 

 F. (p. 88) : " cousus parmi les flans" ("the flanks drawn in"). 



