This present boke shewyth the manere of hawkynge [and] huntynge and also of diuysynge of cote armours. It shewyth also a good matere belongynge to horses: wyth other co[m]mendable treatyses. And ferdermore of the blasynge of armys: as here after it maye appere.
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
¶Now of the haare
¶Now for to speke or the haare my sones sykerly:
That beest kynge shall be callyd of all venery.
For all the fayr spekynge & blowynge that is thare:
Comyth of sechynge and fyndynge of the hare.
For my leyf chyldern I take it on honde:
He is the merueyllou•t beest that is in ony londe.
For he fymayeth and crotyth and roungeth euer more:
And beeryth talowe and grees: and aboue teeth hath be fore
And other whyle he is male: and soo ye shall hym fynde:
And other whyle female and kyndlyth by kynde.
¶And whan he is female and kyndlyth hym wythin:
In thre degrees he theym beryth or he wyth theym twyn̄.
Two rough and two smothe who woll theym se:
And two knottys also that kyndelys wyll be.
whan he is female: soo tell I my tale.
