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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

yere when he doth most deuoure No no the minds of men which still be vainely bent Must haue their change of 〈◊〉 as first the Hare in Lent The Hart in Sommers heate and me poore Foxe in cold But wherto serue these sundry sports these chases manyfold Forsoth to ferde their thoughts with drags of vaine delight Whereon most men do muse by day wheron they dream by night They must haue costly clothes they must haue deintie fare They must haue coudxs stuft with doune they must haue all in square They must haue newfound games to make thē laugh their ●…iill The must haue foules they must haue beasts to bayt to hunt to kyll And all when all is done is nothing else but vayne So Salomon the wiseman sayd and so sayes Raynerd playne An aduertisment of the Translator I 〈◊〉 in mynè Author nothing written either of the wild Cat or of the Marterne and yet both those are vermine whiche we vse here in England cōmonly to hunt and in my iudgement as necessarie to be hunted as any vermine can be For the question may be doubtfull whether eyther Foxe or Badgerd doe more hurt than the wild Cat doth Since there are few gentlemen in England but haue commoditie by Conies either great or smal and I am sure that there is no vermine which doth more hurt in a Warren of Conies than a wild Cat doth And therewithal I haue heard some hunters say that she l●…aueth as great sent maketh as good a cry for the time as any vermin that is hunted especially the Marterne passeth all other 〈◊〉 for sweetnesse of sent and hir case is a noble ●…urre The wild Cats case is nothing so good furre but it is verie warme and medicinable for sundry a●…s and paines in the bones and ioynts Also hi●… greace is very good for sinewes that be shronke These two chases are not to be sought of purpose vnlesse the huntsman doe see them where they pray and can go readily to him But if a hound chance to crosse them he wil hunt it assone as any chase they make a noble crye for the time that they stand vp At last when they may no more they wil take a tree and therein seeke to begile the hounds But if the hounds hold in to them wil not so giue it ouer then they will leape from one tree to another make great shifte for their liues with no lesse pastime to the huntsmen When they are killed you must hold them vp vpon a pyked staffe hallowe in all your hounds then reward thē with some meate For the flesh of these 〈◊〉 is not good for a hoūd Thus much I haue thought good of my self to write according to my country hunting Of the hunting of the Otter Chap. 75. THe Otter is a beast well knowne Shee feedeth on fishe and lyeth neare vnto Ryuers Brookes Pooles and fishepondes or Meares hir lying commonly is vnder the rootes of trees and sometimes I haue seene them lying in ●… hollowe tree foure or fiue foote aboue the grounde euen as a Foxe Polcat wildecat or Badgerd will destroye a Warren so will the Otter destroy all t●…e fishe in your pondes if she once haue founde the waye to them She dyueth and hunteth vnder the water after a wonderfull manner so that no fishe can escape hir vnlesse they be verie great and swift A litter of Otters will destroy you all the fishe in a ryuer or at least the greatest store of them in two myles length They goe sault at suche times as firrets go sault which time euery mā may eassy know And they kindle bring forth their yong Otters euen as firrets do somtimes more somtimes lesse To speak a truth they seem to be a kind of water firrets There is great cunning in the hunting of thē as shal be saide in the next chapter also it is possible to take thē vnder the water by the ryuers side both in traps in snares as you may take a Hare with Harepypes or such like gynnes They byte sore and venomously and defende them selues stoutly And if they be taken in snares if they abyde long they will sone sheare themselues out with their teeth I will not speake much more of their nature but onely that they are footed like a Goose I meane they haue a webbe betweene theyr clawes and haue no heele but onely a rounde ball vnder their soale of their foote their tracke is called the marke of an Otter as we say the slot of an Hart and their fewmets are called spraynts as hath bene sayde before An Otter abideth not much nor long in one place but if she be frayed or finde any fault as they are very perfectly of smellyng and hearing they will forsake their couche shifte a mile or two vp or downe a riuer the like wil she do if she haue once destroyed the store of fishe and finde no plentie of feeding From a pondgarden or good store of fishpondes she wil not lightly be remoued as long as there is store of fish in them for therein fishes are taken with more ease than in the Riuers or greater waters but inough of their natures How to hunte and take an Otter Chap. 74. VVHen a huntesman would hunte the Otter he should first send foure seruants or varlets with bloudhounds or such 〈◊〉 as will drawe in the lyame let him sende them twoo vp the Riuer and two downe the riuer the one couple of thē on th●…t one side the other on that other side of the water And so you shal be sure to finde if there be an Otter in that quarter for an Otter cannot long abide in that water but must come forth in the night to make his 〈◊〉 sometimes to feede on grasse and heathes by the waters side If any of theyr lyamhounds finde of an Otter let that huntesman looke in the softe groundes and moyst places to see which way he bent the head vp or downe the riuer or if he cannot perceyue it by the markes he may partly perceyue it by that sprayntes then he may follow his hounde lodge it euen as you would do a Deare or a Bore And if he finde not the Otter quickly he may then iudge that he is gone to couche somewhere further off from the water for an Otter will sometimes seeke his feede a myle or little lesse from his couche and place of reste and commonly he will rather go vp the Riuer than downt for goyng vp the streame the streame bringeth him sent of the fishes that are aboue him and bearing his nose into the winde he shall the sooner finde any faulte that is aboue him also you should make an assembly for the Otter as you do for that Harte and it is a note to be obserued that all such chaces as you draw after before you 〈◊〉 them lodge them or herbor them you shoulde make a solempne assembly to heare

a heauie beast and of greate force trusting affying himself in his Tuskes his strength and therefore will not so lightly flee nor make chase before houndes so that you cannot by hunting of the Bore know the goodnesse or swiftnesse of thē and therewithall to confesse a truth I thinke it greate pitie to hunte with a good kenell of houndes at such chas●…●…d that for such reasons and considerations as followe First he is the only beast which can dispatch a hounde at one blow for though other beastes do bite snatch teare or rende your houndes yet there is hope of remedie if they be well attended but if a Bore do once strike your hounde and light betweene the foure quarters of him you shall hardely see him escape and therewithall this subtiltie he hath that if he be runne with a good kenell of houndes which he perceyneth holde in rounde and followe him harde he will flee into the strongest thicket that he can finde to the ende he may kill them at leysure one after another the whiche I haue seene by experience oftentimes And amongst others I sawe once a Bore chased and hunted with fiftie good houndes at the least and when he sawe that they were all in full crie and helde in rounde togethers he turned heade vpon them and thrust amiddest the thickest of them In suche sorte that he slewe sometimes fire or seuen in manner with twinklyng of an eye and of the fiftie houndes there went not twelue sounde and aliue to their Masters houses I gayne if a kennell of houndes be once vsed to hunte a Bore they will become lyther and will neuer willingly hunte fleing chases agayne For asmuche as they are by him accustomed to hunte with more ease and to find great Sent. For a Bore is a beast of a very hote Sent and that is contrarie to light fleing chases which are hunted with more payne to the hounde and yet therewith do not leaue so greate Sent. And for these causes who so euer meaneth to haue good hoūdes for an Harte Hare or Rowdeare let him not vse them to hunte the Bore but since men are of sundrie opinions and loue to hunte suche chases as lie moste commodiously aboute their dwelling places I will here describe the propertie of the Bore and how they may hunte him And the manner of killing him either with the sworde or Bore-speare as you shall also see it set out in portrayture hereafter in his place Of the nature and subtiltie of the Bore Chap. 50. THe Bore is of this nature that when his Dame dothe pigge him he hath as many teeth as euer he will haue whyles he liueth neyther will their teeth any way multiplie or encrease but onely in greatnesse and length Amongst the reste they haue foure whiche with the Frenchmen are called Defences and we call them Tuskes or Tusches whereof the two highest do not hurte when he striketh but serue onely to whet the other two lowest but with those lower Tuskes they stryke marnelously and kill oftentymes if a Bore happen to haue his eyes blemished or to hurte them daungerously he will heale agayne very soone A Bore may liue fiue and twentie or thirtie yeares it is easier to bryng them into a Soyle in Aprill or in Maye than in any other season and that is bycause they sleepe soundlyer in those two moneths than at any other tyme of the yeare for asmuch as they feede then vppon strong hearbes and buddes of trees which do so moisten their braynes that they become very sleepy Againe the spring time reneweth their bloud which maketh them sleepe the more soundly They go to Rut aboute the moneth of December and their great heate endureth neare about three weekes And although their Sowes become colde agayne and couet not the Bore yet do not the Bores parte from them vntill it be Ianuarie then they withdraw themselues vnto their holdes wherein they keepe close sometimes three or foure dayes together and neuer come out especially when they haue found●… the 〈◊〉 and do finde sweetenesse in the roote of the Fearne Sometimes a Bore will wander farre out of the Forrestes or thicke couerts to seeke feedyng especially in time of the vintage in suche Countries as wine is made and wheresoeuer they become when day appeareth there will they abyde without respect of the place It suffiseth if they finde but some tuffte of thornes or brambles and there will they lie vntill it be night agayne they harken earnestly and will heare a man very farre off especially when they be vnder the winde but if they be vp the winde heare not greatly They lyue and feede vpon all kinde of Corne and Frutes as Apples Peares Plummes Akehornes Chestnuttes Beechmaste and suche lyke and of all sortes of root●…s also vnlesse it be Rapes and Nauie rootes Also in Apryll and May they feede on the buddes of Plumtrees Chestnut trees and all other sweete buddes that they can finde especially vpon the buddes of broome and Iuniper they will feede on no carion vnlesse it be of a deade Horse they neuer become sowle or mesled as wee terme it lyke vnto our tame Swyne When they are in the marishes they feede and lyue vppon water Cresseys wilde Garlyke and suche hearbes as they can finde Beyng neare to the Sea coaste they will feede vppon all kinde of shel-fishes as Cockles Muskles Oysters and suche lyke Their season beginneth in the middest of September and endeth aboute the beginnyng of December when they go to the Rutte commonly a Bore wyll abyde the baye before he go out of his denne and they lie moste commonly in the strongest holdes of Thornes and thicke Bushes and when they are hunted they sticke also in the strongest couertes and will seldome leaue them vntill it be darke night And if it chaunee that there be a Sownder of them together then if any one breake Sownder the reste will followe the same way The Bore dothe sooner forsake the hollow Forestes to seeke strong couerts than the Harte dothe therevpon it hath bene spoken in Prouerbe that a Bore is but a gest and if a Bore be in a thicke or strong couert beyng come thyther from a hollow woode or Forrest then if you hunte him he will not fayle to go backe by the same way that he came thether and when soeuer they are once reared they flee continually neuer stay vntill they come to the place where they were farrowed and brought vp for there they thinke thēselues in sa●…egarde This haue I seene by experiēce by a Bore whiche hath come fro●… his accustomed denne to seeke feede and beyng hunted he went immediately directly backe close and rowteth not then shall you say he graseth these termes you maye vse in making report of a Bore The iudgement vvherby you may knovv a great Bore and first by the foote Chap. 52. COmmonly a man maye knowe an olde Bore or a great swyne by the foote where he hath gone