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may vncouple your yong hound es from the old, that the olde 

 houndes may firft leade them : and you mufte haue good prickers 

 and huntefmen on horfebacke in the tayle of them to make them 

 holde in and c!ofe. Yet another way to bryng your houndes to 

 quarrie and to rewarde them, you mail haue foure or fixe hunti- 

 men that be good and fwifte of foote, for els they may rather 

 hinder than furder the houndes, and to euery one of thele you 

 may giue two couple of houndes to leade in liames, and when 

 the houndes haue vnlodged the Harte, they may go fayre and 

 foftely, and not weary theyr yong houndes before the crie : then 

 when they fliall perceyue that the Harte hath runne twoo good 

 houres, and that he beginneth to finke before the houndes, they 

 may cafte of theyr yong houndes, but they ought to haue good 

 regard that they cafte them not of when he is at Baye : efpecial- 

 ly when his head is full fommed, for in that furie he woulde en- 

 danger them or kill them. Mine opinion is that the beft entryng of 

 houndes is at the Hare, for that is their very beft beginning, for 

 almuch as thereby they fliall learne all doubles, and turnes, as lyke- 

 wifc to knowe and to come to the hallowe, and alfo they become 

 very tendre nofed and perfedte of fent by accuftoming the beaten 

 wayes and champaygne Countries, and afterwards when a man 

 woulde enter or teache them to the Harte, they will quickely forget 

 and abandone the Hare. Here mufte be noted that all houndes 

 ought to be well acquaynted with their prickers or Huntefmen 

 on Horfebacke which fliall follow them, and there- 

 fore it is requifite that when the Huntefmen fliall 

 giue them rewarde, and that they make the 

 Quarrie, the prickers and Huntefmen on 

 horfebacke be there prefent to make 

 much of them, and to fpeake 

 to them, to the end ttiat 

 they may the bet- 

 ter vnderftand 

 and know 

 them. 



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