170 THE MASTER OF GAME 



they see him also cast his chaule, 1 then they ought to 

 vauntlay for advantage of the hounds, for so shall 

 they sooner have him at hay, and from then he is 

 hut dead if the hunters serve aright the hounds. 

 Nevertheless men have seen at the first finding or 

 soon after, deer turn the head (to bay), and oftenest 

 in rutting time, hut I mean not of deer that turneth 

 so to hay, hut I mean of hunted deer when men have 

 seen of them the tokens said before that he stand at 

 hay. And if it he so that the hounds have envoised 2 

 or have overshot, or that they he on a stynt by any 

 other ways, those hunters on horseback or on foot to 

 whom belongs the right, first should blow the stynt 

 as I shall devise in a chapter that shall be of all 

 blowing. 3 And after that he should fall before the 

 hounds as soon as he can and take them up, and if 

 so be that they have envoy sed two deer of antler 4 

 they should not be rated badly, but get in front 

 of 7 them and take them off in the fairest way that 

 men can. And if they run ought else they should 

 be got in front of and rated and well lashed. And 

 what hounds they may get up, bring them to the 

 next rights (right line) if they know where, or else 

 there where he (the hart) was last seen. And if 

 it be great danger they ought to blow a mote for 

 the lymer and let him sue till he hath retrieved him 



1 Drop his jaw. (?) 2 Gone off the right line. 



3 This chapter does not exist. 



* If the hounds have gone away after two stags. 



