S6 The hoohe of Hunting 



IT happeneth very often that men fayle of kUlyng the Harte at 

 force diuers kindes of wayes: fometimes by occafion of y« great 

 heate, or that they be ouertaken with night, and many other 

 kindes of wayes which fhould be tedious to rehearfe : when fuch 

 chance happeneth, you fliall thus do. Firft they which follow the 

 houndes fhall cafte a marke at the lafl: pathe or way where they 

 fhall fortune to leaue the chafe : that they may thither returne to 

 fceke him on the morrow by the breake of the day with the bloud- 

 hounde and the houndes of the kenell behind them : for when there 

 is occafion to feeke an Harte agayne, you mufte not tarie for re- 

 porte nor afTemblie: bycaufe it is vncertayne if the chace will 

 long continue, nor into what coaft he Ihould be gone : and there- 

 withall that Hartes which haue bene hunted, do moft commonly 

 runne endwayes as farre as they haue force : and then if they finde 

 any water or foyle, they do Aay long time therein : and do fo 

 ftiffen theyr ioyntes therewith that at theyr commyng out, they 

 cannot go farre nor ftande vp long, and then alfo they are con- 

 ftrayned to take harbour in any place that they may finde, fo 

 as they may be in couert, and feede as they lie, of fuch things as 

 they may finde about them. When the Huntefmen flial be come 

 vnto the place where they lefte markes ouer night, they fhoulde 

 parte in funder : and he whiche hath the beft hounde and mofte 

 tender nofed, fhould vndertake to drawe with him endwayes in 

 the trackes and wayes where he feeth mofte lykelyhoode, holding 

 his hounde fliorte, and yet neuer fearyng to make him lappife or 

 call on : the other Huntefmen ought to take them to the outfides 

 of the couertes alongft by the mofte commodious places for them 

 to marke, and for theyr houndes to vent in : and if any of them 

 chance to finde where he hath lept or gone, he fhall put his hounde 

 to it whoupyng twyce, or blowy ng two motts with his home, 

 to call in his fellowes and to caufe the refle of the kenell to ap- 

 proche. The reft hauyng heard him, fhall ftreight wayes go to 

 him, and looke altogither whether it be the Hart which they feeke : 

 and if it be, then fhall they put therevnto the hounde whiche befte 

 defireth to drawe or to fticke there, and the refte fliall parte euery 

 man a fundrie waye to the outfides and fkirtes of the couert : 



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