112 The hoohe of Hunting 



reared, and this is one efpeciall reafon wherefore the horfemen 

 and huntfmen ihould blemifh at fuche places as they fee the Harte 

 entre into a thicket or couert to the ende that if the houndes fall 

 to change, they may returne to thofe blemifhes, and put their 

 houndes to the right flot and view, vntHl they haue rowzed or 

 founde him againe with their bloudhounde, or with fome other 

 ftanche old hounde of the kenell, in the which they may affie them- 

 felues. For old ftaunche houndes which will not hunte change, 

 when they fee an Harte rowzed and before them, they neuer call on 

 nor once open : but if they be yong rafhe houndes they wil runne 

 with full crie and fo take change. Wherfore in fuch refpedes the 

 huntefmen on horfebacke mufth aue great confideration, and let them 

 neuer affie themfelues in yong houndes, vnlesse they fee fome old 

 ilanche houndes amongffc them: and if there be two prickers or 

 huntefmen on horfebacke together, that one fhal run to the hounds 

 and rate them, that other fhal hallow, and call them into the place 

 where they made the default, and there letthem beate well with their 

 houndes, comforting them vntil they may finde the Harte againe. 

 And if he heare any old fure hounde bay or open, let him make in 

 to him and looke on the flot whether he hunt right or not : and if he 

 find that it be right let him blow with his home, and afterwards 

 halow vnto that hounde naming him, as to fay, Hyke a Talbot^ 

 or Kyke a Beivmont Hyke Hyke^ to htm^ to hlm^ &c. Then the other 

 huntefmen fhall beate in theyr houndes to him, and by that meanes 

 they fliall renewe the chafe and finde him agayne. Againe a 

 Hart bringeth the houndes to change in an other manner : for as 

 foone as he perceyueth that the houndes runne him, and that he 

 cannot efchew them, he will breake into one thicket after another 

 to finde other Deare, and rowfeth them, and heardeth himfelfe 

 with them. So that he holdeth herd with them fomtimes an houre 

 or more before he will parte from them or breake heard : then if 

 he fecle himfelfe fpent, he will breake heard, and fall a doubling 

 and crofling in fome harde high way that is much beaten, or els in 

 fome riuer or brooke the which he wil keepe as long as his breath 

 will fuffer him : and when he perceyueth that he is farre before 

 the houndes, he will vfe like fubtilties as before to beguyle them. 



