CHAPTER XXVII 



HOW A HUNTER SHOULD GO IN QUEST BY 

 THE SIGHT 



Afterwards I shall show you how a man should 

 go in quest for the hart with his lymer or by him- 

 self. This word quest for the hart is a term of 

 hunters beyond the sea, and means when a man goeih 

 to find a deer and to harbour him, and it is a fair 

 term and shorter said than our term of England to 

 my seeming. And then shall the groom quest in 

 the country that shall be devised to him the night 

 before, and he shall rise in the dawning, and then 

 he must go to the meating (pasturing) of the deer 

 to look if he may see anything to his liking, and 

 leave his lymer in a certain place where he may 

 not alarm them. And thence he should go to the 

 newly hewn wood of the forest or other places where 

 he hopes best to see a hart, and keep always from 

 coming into the wind of the hart, he should also 

 climb upon a tree so that the hart shall wind 

 nothing of him, and that he can see him further. 

 And if he sees a hart standing stably he must look 

 well in what country he shall go to his lair, and 



privily repair to some place where he can best see 



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