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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Title: 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.
Author: Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.
Publication: [[London] :: Imprinted by Henry Bynneman, for Christopher Barker,; [1575]]
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Subject terms: Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
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Of the nature and propertie of the Conie. Chap. 63. (Book 63)

THe Conie is a cōmon beast and well knowen vnto all men. The Conie beareth hyr Rabettes. xxx. dayes, and then kinte∣leth, and then she must be bucked againe, for els she will eate vp hir Rabets. She wil haue fiue, sixe, and seuen at a litter. He that would haue a warrayne well replenished with Conies, shoulde hunt them & beate them in twice or thrice in a weeke with some Spanell or curre for the purpose: for otherwise they will stray & feede out into the woodes and cornefieldes neare adioyning, and you shall neuer make thē come in to their burrowes or clappers againe. Some hold opiniō that they will follow a Hare to knot & •…•…ngēdre with hir: but for the reason before alledged, beate them i•…•… twice or thrice in a weeke. When a Buck•…•… Conie will go to the Doe, he will beate vpon the ground with his forefoote mar∣uelously, and by that meanes he heateth himselfe: when he hath buc•…•…t, then falleth he backwards & lieth in a traunce as he were half dead: and then may a man easily take him. The fleshe of a Conie is much better than the fleshe of an Hare, for the Hares flesh is much drier and more m•…•…lancholike: so is the skinne of a Conie (if it be blacke) a very good furre, where as the Hares skin is little or nothing worth.