The hoohe of Hunting i^p 



and therewithal! to confefle a truth, I thinkc it greate pitie to 

 hunte (with a good kencU of houndes) at fuch chafes : and that for 

 fuch reafons and confiderations as foUowe. 



Firft he is the only beall: which can difpatch a hounde at one 

 blow, for though other beaftes do bite, fnatch, teare, or rende your 

 houndes, yet there is hope of remedie if they be well attended : 

 but if a Bore do once Itrike your hounde and light betweene 

 the foure quarters of him, you Ihall hardly fee him efcape : and 

 therewithal! this fubtiltie he hath, that if he be runne with a good 

 kenell of houndes, which lie perceyueth holde in rounde and fol- 

 lowe him harde, he will flee into the ftrongeft thicket that he 

 can finde, to the ende he may kill them at leyfure one after an- 

 other, the whiche I haue feene by experience oftentimes. And a- 

 mongft others I fawe once a Bore chafed and hunted with fif- 

 tie good houndes at the leaft, and when he fawe that they were 

 all in full crie, and helde in rounde togethers, he turned heade 

 vpon them, and thruffc amiddefb the thickeft of them. In fuche 

 forte that he flewe fometimes fixe or feuen (in manner) with 

 twinklyng of an eye : and of the fiftie houndes there went not 

 twelue founde and aliue to their Mafters houfes. Agayne if a 

 kennell of houndes be once vfed to hunte a Bore, they will be- 

 come lyther, and will neuer willingly hunte fleing chafes a- 

 gayne. For afmuche as they are (by him) accuftomed to hunte 

 with more eafe, and to find great Sent. For a Bore is a beafl of 

 a very hote Sent, and that is contrarie to light fleing chafes, 

 which are hunted with more payne to the hounde, and yet there- 

 with do not leaue fo greate Sent. And for thefe caufes who fo 

 euer meaneth to haue good houndes for an Harte, Hare, or Row- 

 deare, let him not vfe them to hunte the Bore : but fince men are 

 of fundrie opinions, and loue to hunte fuche chafes as lie mofle 

 commodioufly aboute their dwelling places, I will here de- 

 fcribe the propertie of the Bore, and howe they may hunte him. 

 And the manner of killing him either with the fworde or Bore- 

 fpeare, as you fliall alfo fee it fet out in portrayture hereafter in 

 his place. 



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