140 The booke of Hunting 



That drummes with deadly dub, may counteruayle the blafl, 

 Which they with homes haue blowen ful lowde, to make my minde agaft. 



That fliot as thicke as Hayle, may fiande for Croflebowe fliootes, 

 That Ctiyjfes, Greues^ and fuche may ferue, in ffceade of Hunters bootes. 



That gyrte with fiege full fure, they may theyr toyles repent, 

 That Embuskadoes ftand for nettes, which they agaynft me bent. 



That when they fee a fpie, which watcheth them to trappe. 

 They may remember ringwalkes made, in herbor me to happe. 



That when theyr bufie braynes, are exercifed fo, 

 Hartes may lie fafe within tlieyr layre, and neuer feare theyr foe. 



But if fo chaunce there be, fome dall:ard dreadfull mome, 

 Whome Trumpettes cannot well entyfe, nor call him once from home : 



And yet will play the man, in killyng harmeleUe Deare, 

 I craue of God that fuch a ghofte, and fuch a fearefull pheare. 



May fee Dyana nakt : and flie (to venge hir flcornes) 

 May foone tranfforme his harmefull head, into my harmelefle homes : 



Vntill his houndes may teare, that hart of his in twayne. 

 Which thus torments vs harmelefle Harts, and puttes our hartes to payne. 



THus haue you an end of fo much as 1 find meete to be tran- 

 flated out of mine Author for the Hunting of an Harte : 

 Wherein 1 haue dealt faithfully for fo much as I tranflated, 

 neyther takyng any thing from him, nor adding any thing but 

 that whiche I haue plainely expreffed, together with the reafons 

 that moued me therevnto. And that which I haue left out is no- 

 thing elfe but certayne vnfeemely verfes, which bycaufe they are 

 more apt for lafciuious mindes, than to be enterlaced amongft 

 the noble termes of Venerie, I thought meete to leaue them at 

 large, for fuch as will reade them in French, 



vfw ende of the Huntyng and Termes nuhlch are 

 vfed in hunting the Harte, 



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