CHAPTER XXXIII 



HOW THE ASSEMBLY THAT MEN CALL GATHER- 

 ING SHOULD BE MADE BOTH WINTER AND 

 SUMMER AFTER THE GUISE OF BEYOND 

 THE SEA 



The assembly that men call gathering should be 



made in this manner : the night before that the 



Lord or the Master of the Game will go to the 



wood, he must cause to come before him all the 



hunters and the helps, the grooms and the pages, 



and shall assign to each one of them their quests 



in a certain place, and separate the one from the 



other, and the one should not come into the quest 



of the other, nor do him annoyance or hinder 



him. And every one should quest in his best 



wise, in the manner that I have said ; and should 



assign them the place where the gathering shall 



be made, at most ease for them all, and the 



nearest to their quests. And the place where the 



gathering shall be made should be in a fair mead 



well green, where fair trees grow all about, the 



one far from the other, and a clear well or beside 



some running brook. And it is called gathering 



because all the men and the hounds for hunting 



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