The noble arte of venerie or hunting VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiutene sundrie chaces togither, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contentes vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.

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The noble arte of venerie or hunting VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiutene sundrie chaces togither, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contentes vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng.
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Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.
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[[London] :: Imprinted by Henry Bynneman, for Christopher Barker,
[1575]]
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Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
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"The noble arte of venerie or hunting VVherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fiutene sundrie chaces togither, with the order and maner how to hunte and kill euery one of them. Translated and collected for the pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen, out of the best approued authors, which haue written any thing concerning the same: and reduced into such order and proper termes as are vsed here, in this noble realme of England. The contentes vvhereof shall more playnely appeare in the page next followyng." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14021.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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The iudgement by the soyle. Chap. 54. (Book 54)

VVHen he soyleth and walloweth him in the myre, then is it easie to know his gretnesse, by the length & largenesse of the soyle. Or else at his departure-from the soyl, you may per∣ceiue it where he hath gone into some thicke, by the leaues and braundrs which he shall touch: for he goeth out of the soyle all

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my•…•…rie and dyrtie, the which will leaue markes vpon the leaues and branches of his heigth, thicknesse. &c. Sometimes when he commeth out of the soyle, he will rub him against a tree, by the w•…•…ich you may see his heigth: and also he will commonly giue two or three blowes with his tuskes vpon the tree, as it were the staus of a dagger, whereby the huntesman may take iudgement and knowledge as well of his heigth, as also of the greatnes•…•…e of his tuskes. You may knowe and iudge also by his denne: for a great Bore when he is at pryme of his greace, wil make his d•…•… deepe: and at his going out thereof, will make hi•…•… lesses (which is his ordure) and by the greatnesse and length thereof you maye iudge the Bore. These lesses shal neuer be brought to an assem∣bly, but let the huntsman content himselfe with the sight of them in places where he findeth them.

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