3 o The hooke of Hunting 



tymes the call, to the ende he may comforte them and call them 

 to him : and when he fliall fee them a^I aboute hym, then fliall 

 he couple them, and in couplyng them he mufte take good heede 

 that he couple not the Dogges together, fur feare leaft they fight 

 one with another, and if there be any yong houndes, it flialbe 

 good to couple them with the olde bitches, to teache them to fol- 

 lowe : when they are all well coupled, the keeper mufte fill two 

 great bagges or pockets with fmall bones, and other good mor- 

 fels, as fiflie, or horfe feete fried, fatte rofte meates, and fuch like, 

 then he fliall breake all into fmall gobbets into his bagges, and 

 hang one bagge about his owne necke, and giue another vnto 

 one of his companions, that done, he muft take two wifpes ot 

 cicane ftraw and put them vnder his gyrdell, with a little brufh 

 or dufter to rubbe and dufte his houndes when they fliall come 

 into the fielde : the other Huntefmen or varlettes whiche flialbe 

 with him ought to do afmuch. Afterwards euery man flial take 

 a fayre wande in his hande, and let one go before to call the 

 houndes vnto him, another fliall come behind which fliall ierke 

 them forwardes, and if there be two others, they fliall go on eche 

 fide, and fo all foure togither fliall go leade the houndes through 

 the greene Corne fieldes and through the medowes, afwell to 

 feede them, as for to teach them to knowe thcyr voyce, making 

 them to pafTe through the heardes of flieepe and other fuche like 

 beaftes, to accuftome them, and to make them to know them : and 

 if there be any dogge that is fo il taught as he would runne at a 

 flieepe or any fuch tame beaft, you muft couple him with a ramme 

 or a ftoute Shcepe, and with your wande you mufte all to pay 

 him and beate him a good while, crying and threatening to the 

 ende that another time he may know the rate of suche as vfe it. 

 So mufte you alfo vfe to leade your houndes through the wa- 

 re ns, and if they couet to runne after the Conies, you mufte 

 threaten and chaftice them, bycaufe yong houndes do naturally 

 loue them. When you haue thus walked them in the morning, 

 and that the Sunne beginneth now to be high, the Hunte muft 

 go into fome fayre medow, and call all his dogges about him, 

 and then mufte they take their wifpes and bruflies, to bruflie and 



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