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says, "to be counted among the beasts of venery 

 which are chaseable with hounds, for he is the 

 proper prey of a mastiffe and such like dogs, for 

 as much as he is a heavy beast and of great force, 

 trusting and asseying himselfe in his tuskes and his 

 strength, and therefore will not so lightly flee nor make 

 chase before hounds. So that you cannot (by hunting 

 of the Bore) know ye goodnesse or swiftness of them, 

 and there withall to confesse a truth, I think it a 

 great pitie to hunte (with a good kenell of hounds) at 

 such chases : and that for such reasons and considera- 

 tions as followe. 



" First, he is the onely beast which can dispatch a 

 hound at one blow, for though other beasts do bite, 

 snatch, teare, or rend your houndes, yet there is 

 hope of remedie if they be well attended ; but if a 

 Bore do once strike your hounde, and light betweene 

 the foure quarters of him, you shall hardly see 

 him escape ; and therewithall this subtiltie he hath, 

 that if he be run with a good kenell of hounds, 

 which he perceiveth holde in rounde and followe him 

 harde, he will flee into the strongest thicket that he 

 can finde, to the end he may kill them at his leisure 

 one after another, the which I have seene by experience 

 oftentimes. And amongst others, I saw once a 

 Bore chased and hunted with fiftie good hounds 

 at the least, and when he saw that they were 

 all in full crie and helde in round together, he 

 turned heade upon them, and thrust amiddest 

 the thickest of them in such sorte that he slew 

 sometimes sixe or seaven in [this] manner in the 



