8 The haoke of Hunting 



As thou thy f elf e haB eke^ aboue all others prayfe^ 



To hallow ivell in hollow woodes^ vnto thy houndes alwayes, 



AJfo I haue feene in a Chroaicle in the towne of Lamhale^ 

 a chapter which maketh mention that a Lord of the fayde place 

 with a kennel of fallow and redde howndes, did rowfe a ftagge 

 in a forrest of the countie of FoiuBieur^ and did hunte and pur- 

 fue him by the fpace of fbure dayes, in fuch forte that the fourth 

 day he tooke him neare to the citie of Paris. And it is to be 

 ptefumed that the fallow howndes are the auncient howndes of the 

 Dukes and Lordes of Brytaine, of the which the lord Admiral! 

 d'Anybauld and his predeceflburs haue alwayes kepte and main- 

 teyned the race, the whiche came firR to be common in the 

 time of the great King Frances father of Hunters, Thefe fallow 

 houndes be hardie and of good fent, keeping very wel their chace 

 without chaunge, and are almoft of the fame complexion that 

 the white houndes are, fauing that they endure not heat fo well, 

 nor yet the preafe or throng of the prickers and galloppers, but 

 they are fwifter, more vniuerfall for all chaces, and hotter in 

 hunting : and if it chance that a beaft do ftray out in the cham- 

 paigne or the field es, they yet do neuer lightly forfake the chace, 

 their complexion is ftrong, for they feare neyther the colde nor 

 the waters, and they runne furely, and are very hardie, they are 

 fayre hunters, louing commonly the Harte better than any other 

 kind of chace, and they are more opinionate and harder to be 

 taught than the whyte howndes, and {o are they able to endure 

 greater payne and trauayle. The befte that you fhall finde of the 

 race of thefe Fallow houndes, are thofe whiche haue their heare 

 moft liuely redde, and fuche as haue a white fpotte in theyr 

 forehead, or a ring aboute their necke, and likewife thofe whiche 

 are all altogither fallow : but thofe that be lighter yellow, beyng 

 marked or fpotted with blacke or dunne, are not greatly to be 

 efteemed : thofe whiche are well ioynted and dewclawed are beft 

 to make bloudhoundes, and there are fome whiche haue their tayles 

 fhagged like eares ofCorne,andthoseare commonly good and fwift: 

 and since Princes at thefe dayes haue mingled the races of Fallow 

 howndes one w* an other, therfore they are become much ftronger 



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