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fore fpent, nor beginne to finke before the houndes, thenhe maye 

 chance to double, crofle^and vfe other fubtleties : but if he be fpent, 

 he will fildome vfe any fubtletie, but onely to lye flat vpon his 

 belly awhyle, and that not long neither. Furthermore you fliall 

 nowe vnderftande that there is great difference in finding out 

 the fubtleties of a Deare in the Foreftes or ftrong holdes, and 

 thofe which he vfeth in the play in champaigne. For in the lirong 

 couerts you muft call about neare vnto the laft Slot that you find, 

 and you muit hold in as neare as you can. For if the huntefmen 

 caft wide out in beating for it, they maye chaunce to light vpon 

 change, which will carie out your hounds to your great difad- 

 uantage. But in the champaigne you maye caft about at large 

 without dread of chaunge : and that in the freflieft and moft com- 

 modious places, where they might fooneft finde viewe, and fo 

 make it out, and whereas alfo the houndes maye haue beft fent. 

 For in the fandhils and drye places, a hounde can not make it 

 out fo well, by reafon of the duft and fande which will ftrike vp 

 into his nofe, and by reafon that the Sunne doth fooner drye vp 

 the moyfture from the ground in thofe places. Again, bicaufe in 

 fuch heathy places, and barreyne grounds, there is neyther graffe 

 nor any thing whereon the Deare may leaue fent fo well : and 

 that is the caufe that Huntefmen may cafte aboute in the mofte 

 conuenient moyft places, and in the frefhe vnder fome bufhe or 

 fhade where the earth is not fo much dried and parched with the 

 Sunne : and if they cannot make it out at the firfte cafting a- 

 boute, they may then cafte about the fecond time a larger com- 

 pafle : and if by that meanes they make it not out, then may 

 they prefume that he is within that compafTe and precinde which 

 they haue fo cafte about, or elfe that the Harte hath made fome 

 croflyng or fome doublyng, or vfed fome fubtiltie : then let them 

 leade backe theyr houndes to the place where they firft fell at de- 

 fault, and put their houndes to it vpon the Slotte, or where the 

 earth is broken as they went before, and lette them beate it well 

 with their houndes, fpeaking to them and cherifhyng them all 

 that they can deuife, afwell with their voyce as with their homes : 

 and let them lookc well to the grounde to helpe their houndes. 



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