The hooke of Hunting 15-3 



O^ the termes and wordes which are to be vsed 

 in hunting of the Bore. Chap, ji 



ALthough in rehearfall of the hunting of an Harte, I haue 

 JTjL^onievvhat touched and rehearfed alfo the termes of Venerie, 

 which are to be vfed in hunting of the Bore : yet haue I thought 

 good heere to write them more at large, for the better vnderftan- 

 ding of all fuch as loue hunting. 



Firft if a man fliould be demaunded by an olde huntefman, 

 what he would call a young Bore when he commeth into the 

 thirde yeare of his age, he fliall fay that he is a yong Bore which 

 hath lately left the Sounder : for a Bore will neuer Jeaue the 

 Sounder, vntill he be three yeares at the leaft. The nexte 

 yeare he fliall call him a Bore. The next yere after a Sanglier, 

 which we (by corruption) haue called a Synguler in Tryflrams 

 precepts. And fo forewardes, euen as you fay an Harte of tenne 

 chafeable or to be runne : you maye likewife fay a Bore of foure 

 yeares olde without refufe. If you would name a great olde 

 fwyne, you may call him a Bore, or a Sanglier, which lefte the 

 Sounder foure or fiue yeares fmce : or a fwyne Royall. In ma- 

 king of a report, if you be demaunded where the Bore hath bene 

 to feede the night before, you may anfwere he fed in the fieldes or 

 in the meades, or in the corne. But if youperceiue that he haue 

 bin in any medow, or corne clofe, then fliall you fay that he hath 

 bene rowting or worming in fuche a field e or medowe. And if 

 peraduenture he haue bene by night in fome Parke, or in fome 

 tuft of Fearne, then fliall you fay, he hath rowted the Fearne, or 

 he hathe broken into the Parke ; for you mufl: vnderliande, that 

 what fo euer he feede on (but fearne and rootes) is called feeding: 

 but when he feedeth on fearne or rootes, then is it called rowting 

 or fearning, or (as fome call it) worming : bycaufe when he doth 

 but a little turne vp the grounde with his nofe, he feeketh for 

 wormes. So may you fay that he hath bene mowfing, when 

 he hath broken into any Barne, or Grayner of a Farme to feeke 

 corne, or Akomes, Peafe, or fuch like. And when he feedeth in a 



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