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called the coverts or places of leare for wild beasts, would be all very thicke 

 sprung or under-wood, as well for the^oncealing of them from potchers and 

 purloyners, as for giving them rest and shadow in the day time, who cannot 

 indure to lie open to the view of passengers, or undefended by darknesse 

 and obscuritie : all these thicke coverts are defences for the wild beastes to 

 save them from the cunning sents or noses of hounds when they pursue 

 them, making their doubles and windings therein so intricate and cunningly, 

 that they scape many times their most mortallest mischiefe : also, in these 

 thicke coverts, the hunted deere finding an unhunted deere where he 

 lodgeth, will forthwith beate him up and lie downe himself in his place, 

 making the hounds undertake the fresh deere, and so escape his owne 

 danger, which in the open places he cannot doe : and the parke is a place 

 that must contrive all things for the good and safetie of the game it keepeth. 

 Thus you see the parke must consist of view, lawnd, and covert, and the 

 situation of hill, valley, and plaine. Now for the water, of which formerly 

 we spoake. You shall know it is very right necessarie in parkes, as well 

 for the reliefe and sustenance of wild beasts, as for the watering, washing, 

 and moistening of the grounds to make them fruitfull. Besides, whenso- 

 ever your game is extreamly hunted, and brought to the pinch of ex- 

 tremitie, then he will flie to the water, which is called the soile, and there 

 find reliefe and rescue : for, according to the saying of the profit David, 

 As the Hart desireth the water brooks, &c., so a deere in his greatest ex- 

 tremitie findeth reliefe and is refreshed by drinking and bathing in the 

 water. In the most convenientest lawnd of the parke, which is most 

 spatious and fruitfull, and which hath the greatest prospect into the parke, 

 and where the deere take greatest delight to feed, there you shall build the 

 lodge or house for the keeper to dwell in, and it shall by all means stand 

 cleare, and open every way, so as there may be no secret approach 

 made unto the same, but such as the keeper may easily behold from his. 

 windowes, and it shall stand so faire in the view of the lawnd, that from 

 thence a man may see every way round about the same, and some part up 



