The hoohe of Hunting 1 1 1 



and therforc in fuch chafes, you fliall comfort your houndes with 

 furious terrible foundes and noyfe, afvvell of the voyce as alfo of 

 your home, to the ende you may make the chafe flee endwayes. 

 And you fliould alwayes be neare at hande, and holde in with 

 your houndes, and make great noyfe leaft the Bore fliould hurte 

 or kill them. As touching the Harte and fuch other light chafes 

 or beafl:s of Venerie, the huntefmen on horfebacke may followe 

 theyr houndes alwayes by y® fame wayes that they faw him pafle 

 ouer, and neuer flial neede to croflTe nor coaft fomuch for feare leait 

 they fliould rowze fome change: and likewife bicaufe in hunting 

 fo, they flial alwayes be befl: able to helpe at defaultes : and let them 

 neuer come nearer the houndesin crie,than fiftic orthreefcore paces, 

 efpecially at y« firfl: vncoupling, or at caflring of their relayes. For 

 if an Harte do make doublings, or wheele aboute, orcroffe before 

 your houndes, if then you come in to haftily, you fliall foyle and 

 marre the Slot or view, in fuch forte as the houndes fliould not 

 be able to fentit fowefl, but fliould ouerflioote the chafe, and that 

 would marre the fporte : but if the prickers and huntefmen on 

 horfebacke perceiue that an Harte (beyngrunne anhoure or more) 

 make out endwayes before the houndes in chafe, and therewithal! 

 perceyue that the houndes follow in ful crie taking it right, then 

 they may come in nearer towardes the houndes, and blowe a Re- 

 chate to their houndesto comforte them. You flial vnderltand here- 

 with that when a Harte feeles that y® houndes hold in after him, he 

 fleeth and feeketh to beguyle them : with chaunge in fundry fortes, 

 for he wil feeke other Hartes and Deare at layre,and rowzeth them 

 before the houndes to make them hunte chaunge : therewithall he 

 wil lie flat downe vpon his belJie in fome of their layres, and folet 

 the houndes ouerflioote him : and bicaufe they fliould haue no fent 

 of him, nor vent him, he wil truiTe al his .iiii. feete vnder his belly 

 andwil blow andbreath vpon y^groundein fome moy it pi ace: infuch 

 forte y* I haue feene the houndes pafle by fuch an Harte within a 

 yeardofhim and neuer venthim: andthisfubtiltie doth nature endow 

 him with, y* heknoweth his breath and his feete to giue greater fent 

 vnto y® houndes than al the refl of his bodie. And therfore at fuch 

 a time hewil abide y^horfementoride ful vpon him,beforehe wilbe 



reared. 



