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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14021	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.	Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.; Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?, attributed name.; Fouilloux, Jacques du, 1521?-1580. Vénerie.	1575 (1575)	STC 24328; ESTC S121817	161,973	257

THE NOBLE ARTE OF VENERIE OR HVNTING VVherein is handled and set out the Vertues Nature and Properties of fiuetene 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 The contentes of this Booke FIrste the Antiquitie of houndes togither vvith the sundry sortes of houndes and theyr seuerall natures and properties The best order hovv to breede enter and make perfect euery one of the same The vertues nature and properties of an Harte togither vvith the perfect order hovv to hunte him in his season The nature and hunting of the Bucke The nature and hunting of the Raynedeare The nature and hunting of the Rovve The nature and hunting of the vvilde Goate The nature and hunting of the vvilde Bore The nature and hunting of the Hare The nature and hunting of Conies The nature and hunting of the Foxe The nature and hunting of the Badgerd The nature and hunting of the Marterne and vvildcat The nature and hunting of the Otter The nature and hunting of the VVolfe The nature and hunting of the Beare The cures and medicines for all diseases in Houndes The proper termes of Venerie A treatise of coursing vvith Greyhoundes The measures of Blovving To the righte noble Sir Henry Clinton Knight Lord Clinton and Saye Maister of the Hart Houndes to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie long life with encrease of honor to the pleasure of the Almightie RIght Noble myne especiall trust is that your honor will pardon my boldnesse in dedicating this Booke to your honorable name For when I had with some charge ca●…sed the same to be collected and translated out of sundry good authorities and thought that it could not but generally delight all Noblemen and Gentlemen of this Realm I made also diligent searche to knowe what particular personage were meetest to be presented with the same and being enformed by my friend the Translator that the office of the Hart Hoūds perteyned vnto youre Lordship I thought it my duetie and was glad that I shoulde thereby haue iust occasion to dedicate so noble an Arte vnto your honorable name most humbly beseeching your honor to accept it in good part and to be assured that whatsoeuer I coulde procure to be written of this excellent Arte of Venerie or Hunting either out of straunge Authors or by conference of our countrey Huntsmen is here in this Booke diligently and sensibly declared I cā no more but present it with humble intente and beseeche the father of Heauē euermore to blesse your good Lordship with the spirite of his grace Amen Your honors most humble C. B. ¶ THE TRANSLATOR to the Reader I Might well haue taken occasion gentle Reader to commend vnto thee both mine own paines in trāslating and gathering this worke the Printers charge and diligence in procuring and publishing the same and the perfectiō of the thing it self according to the subiect and theame wherevpon it treateth But as touching mine own trauaile I wil nothing speake sithence I did vndertake the same at request of my friend the Printer who hath so throughly deserued my paynes as I stand fully contented his diligence and charge I thinke not meete to be ouerpassed with silēce who to his great costs hath sought out asmuche as is written and extant in any language concerning the noble Artes of Venerie Falconrie and to gratifie the Nobilitie and Gentlemen of this land hath disbursed great summes for the Copies translations pictures and impressions of the same I wil not say that he hath spared neither English Frenche Latine Italian nor ' Dutche Author to search as it were in the bowels of the same an exquisite tradition methode of those two Artes. But to cōclude mine opinion in few wordes he hath shewed himselfe more desirous a rare exāple to pleasure others thā to profit himself by this enterprise And therwithal in his behalf I must alledge that as the studies of Diuinitie graue discourses are without all cōparison most cōmēdable euen so yet could he haue trauayled in no one Arte or Science them excepted which might haue bene more cōmendable or necessary for al Noblemen Gentlemen not only for the delightfulnes therof but also bicause it is both profitable and godly For if as Salomon sayeth all earthly things be vanities then are those moste to be esteemed which may continew the life of Man in most comfort and godly quiet of mynd with honest recreatiō And if it be true as it is doutlesse that pride which is roote of al vices doth increase by idlenes thē is that exercise highly to be cōmended which doth maintaine the body in helth the mynd in honest meditatiōs yet the substance not greatly decaied For these causes I haue always allowed and confirmed their opinions which do more esteeme Hūting thā Hawking Sithens we do plainly perceiue that Hūting is mainteined with much lesser charge And to return to my first begon purpose I cōmend to thy curteous consider atiō gentle reader both my trauel and the Printers charge assuring thee that as much as could cōueniently be foūd out either in authoritie or conference is here expressed for thy better knowledge in Venerie Take it in gree be as thankeful vnto the Printer for his good wil honest mening as he hath bin vnto me for my study and trauell herein And so farewell George Gascoigne in the commendation of the noble Arte of Venerie AS God himselfe declares the life of man was lent Bicause it should with feare of him in gladsome wise be spent And Salomon doth say that all the rest is vaine Vnlesse that myrth and merie cheere may follow toile and paine If that be so in deede what booteth then to buylde High towers halles of stately port to leaue an vnknown child Or wherefore hoord we heapes of coyne and worldly wealth VVhiles therwithall that caytif care cōmes creeping in by stelth The needie neighbors grudge to see the rychman thr●… Such malice worldly mucke doth breede in euery man alyue Contention commes by coyne and care doth contecke sew And sodeine death by care is caught all this you know is true Since death is then the end which all men seeke to flye And yet are all men well aware that Man is borne to dye VVhy leade not men such liues in quiet comely wise As might with honest sport game their worldly minds suffise Amongst the rest that game which in this booke is taught Doth seeme to yeld as much content as may on earth be sought And but my simple Muze both myrth and meane mistake It is a meane of as much mirth as any sport can make It