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The hooke of Hunting 



And when they haue frayed their heades, they then do burnilh 

 their heads, fome againft cole heapes, some other againftmettall 

 places, fome in clay and other commodious things and places to 

 do it in. Some beare red heads, fome blacke, and fome whyte, all 

 which colourings proceede of nature and of none other thing : 

 for it fliould be verie hard for the duft or pouder of coles, or any 

 fuch like thing to giue them coloure. The red heades are com- 

 monly greater and fayrer than the reft, for they are commonly 

 fuller of marrowe and lighter: the blacke heades are heauier,and 

 haue not fo much marowe in them : the white are the very worft 

 and the worfl nouriflied. All this I haue knowne by experience 



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