Typography and Bibliography. 2 1 



The firft, "The Book of Hawking," ftarts ftraight off " This is 

 the manner to keep Hawks," and occupies three fignatures, a, f), 

 and f, of eight leaves each, and fig. D, which has but four leaves, 

 on purpofe that this portion might be complete alone, if fo defired. 

 The fame idea controlled the arrangement of " The Book of 

 Hunting," which, beginning on fig. t j, ends with Dame Juliana's 

 " Explicit " on the recto of fig. f tt't'j. This left the laft feven pages 

 of the quaternion to be filled up. Now it was a common practice, 

 both with the fcribes and with the early printers, when they got 

 to the end of their text and found that a page or two of blank 

 paper was left, to occupy the blank pages with fuch common 

 houfehold aphorifms or popular rhymes as came eafily to the memory, 

 or were at hand in fome other book. So here the fchoolmaster- 

 printer fills up his vacant pages with a number of odd fentences and 

 rhymes, moft of which occur over and over again in numerous manu- 

 fcripts of early poetry. Among others we notice the well-known : 



" Arife erly, 

 ferue God deuouteli, 

 and the world befily." 



8rc. &c. 



Alfo the folks proverb : 



" Too wyues in oon hous, 

 Too cattys and oon mous, 

 Too dogges and oon boon, 

 Theis fhall neu accorde oon." 



Then the lift of proper terms to be ufed by gentlemen and thofe 

 curious in their fpeech is of very common occurrence : 



" An herde of Hertis 

 An herde of all man dere 

 A pride of Lionys 

 A fleuth of Beeris." 

 &c. &c. 



This was evidently copied from fome MS., and ends with "1 Ex- 

 plicit," and nothing more. On the next page we have the proper 

 terms for carving or dismembering beafts, fowls, and fifties, followed 

 on the laft leaf by a lift of bifhoprics and provinces. 



