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IT flialbe good to withdraw the whelpe from his nource when 

 he is tenne moneths olde, and to keepe them all together in 

 kennell, to the ende they may vnderftand and know one an other. ^ 

 There is great difference to fee a kennell of houndes nourifhed 

 togither, and all of one age : and another of houndes gathered 

 here and there : bicaufe thofe whiche are brought vp togither, do 

 better vnderftand eche other, and keepe clofer togither in Crie, 

 than thofe whiche are gathered from fundrie places. " When you 

 haue brought your whelpes to kennell, you muft hang clogges 

 or billets of woodde aboute theyr neckes, to teache them to go 

 coupled, the bread which fliould be giuen them, fliould be a third 

 parFe of wheat, a thirde of Barley or Otes, and a thirde oF Rie, 

 bicaufe beyng fo mixed, it keepeth them frefh and fatte, and hea- 

 leth or preferueth them from fundrie difeafes, whereas if it were 

 all Rie it might make them fkoure too much, and if it were all 

 wheate, it would binde them too much, the whiche would caufe 

 many difeafes, and therefore it is beft fo to mixe one with an 

 other. Men muft giue fleflie to their houndes in winter, efpeci- 

 ally thofe whiche are leane, and hunte the Harte : but you fhould 

 not feede haryers with flefhe for diuers confiderations : for if you 

 do, they will become fleflily, and gyuen to hunte great beaftes 

 of chace, and will make none accompt of the Hare : and the Hare 

 alfo doth often conueye hyr felfe amongft the heardes of tame 

 beafts, to be thereby ridde of the dogges, and by that meanes the 

 houndes might chaunce to leaue theyr chace, and to runne after 

 the tamer beafts. But Buckhoundes and fuch as hunt the Harte 

 will not fo eafily do it, bicaufe the Bucke or Harte is of greater 

 fent than the Hare, in fuch forte that his fleflie is vnto them more 

 delicate and more greedely defired than any other. The beft flefli 

 that you can giue Houndes, and that will befte fet vp a weake 

 hounde, are horfeflelh, affe and mules fleflie, as for beefe (eyther 

 oxe or cowes fleflie) and fuche like, the fleflie is vnto them of a 

 more foure fubftance. You fliould neuer fuflFer your houndes to 

 feede vpon any flefli vntill it be fleyed, to the ende they may haue 

 no knowledge neither of the beaft, nor of his heare. I allow and 

 prayfe pottage made of Mutton, Goates fleflie, and the heades 



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