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fholde coveyte nomore as at that tyme. 

 Y Alfo ye fhall befye yourfelfe to nouryfh 

 the game in all that ye maye : & to de- 

 ftroye all fuch thynges as ben devourers 

 of it. ^[ And all thofe that done after this 

 rule fhall haue the bleffynge of God & 

 faynt Petyr : whyche he theym graunte 

 that wyth his precyous blood vs boughte. 



^f And for by caufe that the prefent 

 treatyfe fholde not come to y e hondys of 

 eche ydle perfone whyche wolde defire it 

 yf it were empryntyd allone by itfelf & 

 put in a lytyll plaunflet, therfore I haue 

 compylyd it in a grete volume of dyverfe 

 bokys concernynge to gentyll and noble 

 men to the extent that the forfayd per- 

 fones whyche fholde haue but lytyll mefure 

 in the fayd dyfport of fyffhynge fhold not 

 by this meane utterly deftroye it. 



