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and that is all the proper woordes or termes that euer I heard 

 or reddc thereof. Note that when you fpeake of a Harts homes, 

 you muft terme them the Head and not the Homes of a Harte. 

 And lykewife of a Bucke : but a Roives hornes^ and a Gotes 

 Homes are tollerable termes in Venerie. 



The termes of the treading or footing of all 

 beaftes of chace and Venerie 



THe footyng or printe of an Hartes foote is called the Slot. Footing. 

 Of a Bucke and all other Fallow Deare.^ it is to be called the 

 Vieiv. Of a Go/e, the Breaking (and that is alfo a good terme for 

 an Hartes footing). Of a Bore^ the Tracke^ or the Treading. Of an 

 Hare diuerfly, for when a Hare is in playne fieldes, flie Soreth : 

 when file cafteth aboute to deceyue the houndes, then file Dou- 

 bleth : and when flie beateth a harde highe waye, where you may 

 yet finde and perceyue hir footing, there Ihe Pricketh : alfo in time 

 of Snowe we fay the Trace of an Hare. Of a Foxe and al fuch 

 vermine I neuer heard any other woord but onely the Footing or 

 tkefoote^ (^c. Of an Otter it is to be called the Markes, or the 

 Marches. And we cal it the foyling of a Deare if it be on grafie 

 where the print of the foote cannot well be feene. 



The termes proper for the ordure and na- 

 turall excrements of chaces 



IT is a thing highly obferued and not here to be omitted, that Ordu,e & 

 the ordure of euery beafte of chace and Venerie hath his proper E,xcremmts. 

 terme. The reafon is, bycaufe theyr ordure and excrements are 

 one principall marke whereby we know the place of their feede, 

 and their eftate. So that a Huntefman in talke or makyng of 

 his reportcs fliall be often conftreyned to rehearfe the fame. Of 

 an Harte therfore, and of all Deare the ordure is called Fewmets 

 or Feiumijfjing : Of a Gote, and of an Hare the Crotifing or Crot- 

 tels : Of a Bore the Lejfes : Of a Foxe, and all other vermine, The 

 "Fyaunts : Of an Otter the Spraynts. And I haue neyther readde 



nor 



