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speake here of Haulkinge and Huntynge for because in these 

 dayes [1555] manye Gentlemen wil do almoste nothinge els, or 

 at the leaste can do that better than any other thing." Con- 

 sidering " what pastimes gentlemen ought to use," he remarks : — 

 " Ther is a saying emong hunters that he cannot be a gentleman 

 whyche loveth not hawkyng and hunting, which I have hard 

 old Woodmen wel allow as an approved sentence among them. 

 The like sayinge is that hee cannot bee a gentleman whych 

 loveth not a dogge." 

 j After insinuating that sportsmen, as a rule, are not learned 

 men, because they give nearly all their time to field sports to the 

 neglect of books, he adds : — "Yet may it cum to passe that 

 these daylye hankers and hunters in tayking of a hauke cannot 

 easely be amended, neyther to reclayme her, to knowe howe 

 many cotes shee is of, to gyve her a measurable gorge, to deserne 

 perfit induing, to know when a hauke is ful summed, to know 

 likewise her diseases, as the craye, the frounce and others, to 

 selde a hauke, to impe her, to cope her, wyth many termes 

 moe, whych thyngs and others knowenne, a manne maye bee a 

 perfeite good Falconer." 



Copies of both the first and second editions of this scarce 

 little book are in the British Museum (232 a. 43. and 722 a. 14) 

 and one of the second edition in the Bodleian Library. From 

 a copy of the second edition in the possession of the late Mr. 

 George Singer, an admirable reprint was made in 1839 at the 

 Chiswick Press, of which only 25 copies were issued, "for 

 presentation." One of these is in the writer's possession. 



II. MAPLET (John). A greene Forest, or, 

 naturall Historie: Wherein may bee seene first the 

 most sufferaigne Vertues in all the whole kinde of 

 Stones and Mettals : next of Plants .... Lastly of 



Brute Beastes, Foules, etc Compiled by John 



Maplet, M. of Arte and Student in Cambridge .... 

 Anno 1567. Imprinted at London by Henry Denham. 

 1 2 mo. 



Title within border, pp. i.-xiv, and 112 leaves black letter. 

 On the verso of last leaf, "Imprinted at London by Henry 



