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at yong Wolues whiche are not yet paflyng halfe a yeare 

 or a yeare olde, for a hounde will hunte fuche more willingly 

 and with lefTe dread than they will hunte an olde Wolfe. And 

 likewife the yong Wolues can neyther make fo good defence, 

 nor yet vfe fuche policies and fubtilties as the olde Wolfe will : 

 or it fliall be good to take Wolues alyue in engines, and then 

 breake theyr teeth and enter your houndes at them : when the 

 Wolfe is deade, you fliall make the rewarde thus. Firfte lette 

 the houndes and Greyhoundes, but efpecially the houndes runne 

 in and all to byte and mufle the dead Wolfe : then let the hunte 

 open his belly all alongft and take out all his bowels : then lette 

 him take a Sheepe or a Porkine and kill it, and ftrype of the 

 fkinne quickly and cut it all to gobbets putting it into the bo- 

 dy of the Wolfe, and theere lette the houndes and Greyhoundes 

 eate it out. For defaulte of a flieepe or fuche hotemeate, let him 

 take breade cheefe and fuche lyke fcrappes and broken morfelles 

 and put them into the Wolfe for the houndes rewarde as before 

 fayde. Note that bothe houndes and Greyhoundes will re- 

 quyre greater flefliyng and encouragement to a Wolfe than to 

 any other chace, and therefore all the cheare that you can vfe 

 vnto them, will be little enough : And if a Wolfe chaunce to 

 breake vppon the hewers, and fo efcape the courfe, yet bee not 

 thereat difcouraged but beate the fame couert on the next day. 

 For a Wolfe hath this propertie, that when he hath once fo efca- 

 ped, he bethinketh him thereof, and returneth thither on the next day 

 to fee what y® matter was which ftyrred him fo, or to fee what is 

 become of his companions if he had any, or to fee if there be any 

 carrion. And agayne he is fo craftie that he thinketh furely men 

 will not hunte in the fayde place agayne fo quickely : but if he 

 finde faulte and perceyue that any of his companions be killed, 

 then will he be gone from thence the nexte night and come no- 

 more there of a greate whyle : yea though you trayne him he 

 may chaunce to come vnto the trayne, but furely he will not ta- 

 rie in any couert neare vnto that place. A man may knowe a 

 doggewolfe from a bitche by the trackes of theyr feete : for the 



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