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removed, blow two long motes for the hounds, and 

 forthwith blow drawing with three long motes that 

 men should stand still, and the hunters may know 

 that they should come to a new seeking with their 

 hounds. And when the hounds be come there where 

 they should uncouple blow three long motes and do 

 and seek and blow, as is before said. And if the 

 bows and greyhounds and stable should be removed, 

 then should he blow a mote and stroke, without the 

 mote in the middle, for to draw men together, and 

 thereby may men know that the king will hunt more 

 ere he go home. And when men come together, then 

 should the Master of the Game see to the placing 

 of the King and of the Queen and of the bows and 

 of the greyhounds and of the stable, as I have said 

 here before, and the hunters to their seeking, and of 

 all other things do in the same manner as I have 

 said. And if the king will hunt no more, then 

 should the Master of his Game, if the King will 

 not blow, blow a mote and stroke with a mote in the 

 middle and the sergeant or whoso bloweth next him, 

 and no man else, should blow the first mote but only 

 the middle, and so every man as oft as he likes to 

 stroke, if they have obtained that which they hunted 

 for. And the middle mote should not be blown save 

 by him that bloweth next the master. And thereby 

 may men know as they hear men stroke homeward 

 whether they have well sped or not. And this way 



