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Your huntes, your hyndes, your fwaynes at all aflfayes. 

 Which ouerthrow them, (being three to tenne) 

 And now are preft, with bloudhounds and relayes. 

 With houndes of crye, and houndes well worthy prayfe, 

 To rowze, to runne, to hunt and hale to death. 

 As great a Hart as euer yet bare breath. 



This may be feene, (a Princes fport in deede) 

 And this your grace fliall fee when pleafeth you : 

 So that voutfafe, (O noble Queene) with fpeede. 

 To mount on horfe, that others may enfue, 

 Vntill this Hart be rowzde and brought to view. 

 Then if you finde, that I haue fpoke amyfle, 

 Corre<5t me Queene: (till then) forgiue me this. 



Afterwardes when all the huntfmen be come together, they 

 fliall make their fundry reports, and prefent their fewmyfliings 

 vnto the Prince or mafter of the game in field, one after another, 

 euery man rehearfmg what he hath feene. And when the Prince 

 or other chiefe hath hard them and feene their fewmifliings, he or 

 file may then chofe which of the Hartes he will hunt, and which 

 he or file thinkes moft likely to make him or hir beft fport. And 

 telling his or hir minde to him that harbored the Hart, the fame 

 huntfman fliall go backe to his blemiflies immediately. But for 

 the better declaration and liuely exprefling of all thefe things, I 

 haue here fet in portrayture as well an alTembly, as alfo the pre- 

 fenting of a report made by a huntfman to a Prince vpon fight 

 of Slot, view, entrie, portes, abatures, fewmifliings, and fuch 

 other tokens. For the better encouraging of fuche huntefmen 

 as painefully do rife earely and late, to make their Lorde and 

 Mafter paftime, I haue fet it downe in fuche termes as I can, 

 defiring all Mafters of Venerie and olde huntefmen, to beare 

 with my boldneffe in vttering of my fimple knowledge. 



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