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warded or rather before, waflie them with Sope and warme 

 water to get out the day whiche fliall be clodded in theyr heare : 

 for els they will foone become mangie : and that would be harde 

 to be cured. You may enter them alfo thus : you must take old 

 Foxes and Badgerdes aliue with your olde Terryers and the 

 helpe of fuch clampes and holdfaltes as you fliall fee here por- 

 trayed : Take them and cut away their nether lawe wherein 

 there wang teeth be fet, and neuer touche the vpper lawe, but 

 let it flrande to fliev/e the furie of the Beaft, although it can do 

 no hurte therwith : then make an earth in fome of your clofes, 

 and make it large inough, bycaufe that the Terryers may fight 

 and turne therein the better, and that they may go in twoo to- 

 gether : then couer the borowe or earth with hordes and turnes, 

 and put the Foxe or Badgerd therein : then put in al your Ter- 

 ryers both yong and old, and encourage them with wordes, as 

 hath bene before declared, and as the Arte requyreth : and when 

 they haue yearned iufficiently, then beginne to digge with fpades 

 and mattockes to encorage them agaynft fuch tyme as you muft 

 vfe to digge ouer them : then take out the Foxe or Badgerde 

 with the clampes or pinchers, killyng it before them, or lette a 

 Greyhounde kill it ;n their fight, and make them reward 

 thereof. It fliall be well to caft them fome bread or 

 cheefe vpon the vermin afllbone as it is dead, for 

 the better boldnyng and encouraging of 

 them. If you will not cut the lawe 

 of the Foxe or Badgerd, then 

 breake out al his teeth 

 that he bite not the 

 Terryers, and it 

 fliall fuffyze 

 as well. 



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