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Pheasant which answereth you will also come nearer 

 and nearer unto you, which as soon as you perceive, 

 you shall then observe that the nearer and nearer you 

 meete, the lower and lower you make your Call to 

 speake, for so you shall perceive the Phesant herself 

 to doe, and her in all points as near as you can you 

 must imitate, and thus doing, in the end you shall get 

 sight of the Phesant, either on the ground or on the 

 pearch, that is upon the boughs of some small Tree, 

 as it were prying and seeking where shee may finde 

 you, which as soon as you perceive, you shall then 

 cease from calling a space, and then as secretly and 

 as speedily as you can, see you spread your Nettes in 

 the most convenient place you can finde betwixt 

 your selfe and the Phesant, over the toppes of the 

 lowest shrubbes and bushes making one end of your 

 Net fast to the ground, and holding the other end by 

 a long line in your hand, by which when anything 

 straineth it, you may draw the Net close .together, or 

 at least into a hollow compasse, which done you shall 

 call again, and then as soon as you perceive the 

 Pheasant to come just under your Net, then you shall 

 rise up and shew your selfe, that by giving the 

 Pheasant an affright hee may offer to mount, and so 

 be presently taken and intangled within your Net.' 

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