2 1 o The boohe of Hunting 



a terrible noyfe that you woulde thinke there were .xx. of them : 

 this do they moft commonly when it is fayre weather, or when 

 they are yong and not paft a yeare old, or that they be trayned to 

 any place for to hunte afterwardes : and furely when they be fo 

 trayned, they will hardly abide where they feede, and efpecially 

 old Wolues, if it be at y® firft time that they haue bene trayned : 

 but if they once haue bene accuftomed to it, then they will abide 

 the better. Some of them be fo craftie, that when they pray by 

 night, they will flie a myle or two from thence before day, efpe- 

 cially if it be in a place where they haue bene hunted or ftirred, or 

 that they finde fome trayne of fleflie made for them. They crie 

 not at all when they are killed, as our dogges do, but in diuerfe 

 other properties they refemble a dogge. It is harde or almofte 

 vnpoflible to keepe or bryng vp a Wolfe fo yong, or fo faft tied 

 in fubiedtion, or fo corrected and kept in awe, but that it will do 

 fome mifchiefe at any time that it get libertie and finde meane 

 to do fo : and the tameft that euer was yet, woulde (if it were 

 ledde abrode) looke this way and that way, to efpie fomewhat 

 that it might be doyng withall. For both a Wolfe is doubtfull 

 that men meane harme vnto him : and agayne he knoweth well 

 in his owne confcience that he dothe many flirewde turnes, and 

 that therefore men hunte and purfue him : but for all that he wil 

 neuer leaue his malicious nature : it is written that the right 

 forefoote of a Wolfe is medecinable for the fwelling in the 

 throate, and for the inflamacion of the liuer : their fkinnes are ex- 

 cellent furre and durable. 



How to hunte them. Chap. 76 



WHen a huntefman woulde hunte the Wolfe, he mufte 

 trayne them by thefe meanes. Firfte lette him looke out 

 fome fayre place a myle or more from the greate woodes where 

 there be fome clofe ftanding to place a brace of good Greyhounds 

 in, if neede be, the whiche fhoulde be clofe enuironed, and fome 

 ponde or water by it : there fliall he kill a horfe or fome other 

 great beaft, and take the foure legges thereof and carie them 



into 



