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through the same into the places most likely and best 

 promising for your purpose, which you shall know by 

 the strength of the undergrowth, the obscurenesse, 

 darknesse, and solitarinesse of the place, you shall 

 then lodge your selfe so close as is possible, and then 

 drawing forth your Call, beginnc to call first softly 

 and in a very low tune or note (lest the Phesants be 

 lodged too near you, and then a sudden loude note 

 may affright them), but if nothing reply or call back 

 again to you, then raise your note higher and higher, 

 till you make your call speake to the uttermost com- 

 passe ; provided that by no meanes you overstrain it 

 in the least degree, or make it speake out of tune, for 

 that were to lose all your labour, and to give the 

 Fowl knowledge of your deceit, whereas keeping it 

 in a most true pitch, and a naturall tune, if there be a 

 Pheasant in all the wood that comes within the com- 

 passe of the sound thereof, shee will presently make 

 answer, and call backe again unto you, and that in 

 your own note also, and as loud and shrill in every 

 proportion. Now as soon as you heare this, answer or 

 report backe againe, if you finde it come farre, and is 

 but one single voyce and no more, then shall you as 

 close and secretly as you can by degrees, steale and 

 creepe nearer and nearer unto it, still ever and anon 

 applying your Call, and you shall finde that the 



