'^S The hooke of Hunting 



fomewhat broken or printed a frefhe, and fuche other tokens, as 

 he may iudge that the Harte hath gone that way lately, and lette 

 hym neuer marke the fayings of a meany of dreamers, whyche 

 fay, that when a man fyndeth copwebbes within the printe of 

 the Slotte, it is a figne that the Harte is gone long before. 

 Suche people fhall foone be deceyued : for many tymes the cob- 

 webbes fall from the fkye, and are not fuche as Spyders make, 

 but a kind of kell, which as I haue feene of experience of an Hart 

 palling by me within one hundreth paces, and I haue gone to fee 

 the llotte ftreight wayes, and before I coulde come at it the cop- 

 webbes or kelles were fallen vppon it. So is there alfo another 

 kynde of men whiche marke when the flotte is full of cleere wa- 

 ter in foft groundes, where an Harte hath paffed, and faye that 

 he is gone long before : but they neuer mark whether the ground 

 be fubied vnto moyfture or not, and yet they may well knowe, 

 that being fubied vnto moyfture, then the little fources whyche 

 pafle by chanels vnfeene in the earth will foone fyll the Slotte 

 with cleare water : whiche may caufe a Huntefman to be decei- 

 ued, and therfore let him looke well to it : and alfo let hym not 

 altogither truft vnto his hounde. For fome houndes will alfo 

 beguyle their maifler, and efpecially thofe hounds that are quic- 

 keii of fente : whiche are not befl for the mornings, bicaufe of the 

 ryndes and dewes, and then they draw but flowly, making fmal 

 accompt on theyr queft, as though the game were gone farre be- 

 fore them : but when the Sunne is well vp, and that the deaw 

 is cleared, and the fent of the earth is perfed, then haue they good 

 fent, and doe their dutie well. Then to returne to our purpofe, 

 if the Huntefman fynde of an Harte which liketh him, that hath 

 pafTed that way lately, and if his hound fticke well vpon it, then 

 let him holde his hound fliort, for feare leafl: he lapyfe : and again, 

 in a morning, a hounde fhall drawe better beeing helde Ihorte, 

 than if he were lette at length of the Lyam : And yet fome Hun- 

 ters will giue them all the Lyam, but they doe not wel. When 

 he hath well confidered what maner of Hart it may be, and hath 

 marked euery thing to iudge by, then let him draw tyll he come 

 to the couert where he is gone to : and lette him harboure him 



if he 



