The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armourBerners, Juliana
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The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour
Berners, Juliana
Falconry -- Early works to 1800; Heraldry -- Early works to 1800; Hunting -- Early works to 1800
Looke ye yeue hit to a lorde. and chylde be kynde
For hit is kynde for mony malydies
And in the myddis of the hert euermore it lies
Than shaƚƚ ye kyt the skyrtis the teeth euen fro
And after the Ragge boon̄ cuttis euen also
The forchis: and the sydes euen betwene
And looke that yowre knyfe ay whettyd bene
Than turne vp the forchis. and frote them with bloode
For to saue the grece. so do men of goode
Than shaƚƚ ye cut the nek the sydes euen fro
And the hede fro the nek cuttyth also
The toong the brayn the paunch and the necke
When thay wasħ be weeƚƚ with water of the becke:
The smale guttis to the lightis in the derys:
A boue the hert of the beest when thow them reris
With aƚƚ the blode that ye may gete and wyn
Aƚƚ to geder shaƚƚ be take. and layde oon̄ the skyn.
To geue yowre houndes. that callid is I wis:
The quyrre. a boue the skyn for it etyn is
And who dightis hym so by my counsayle
Shaƚƚ haue the lefte shuder for hys trauayle.
And the Right shulder where so euer he bee
Yeueth to the foster for that is his fee
And the lyuer also of thessame beest
To the fosterys knaue yeueth at the leest
The nombles trussith in the skynne. and hardeƚƚ hym fast
The sides and the forches to geder that thay last
With thender legges. be doon̄ so it shaƚƚ
Than bryng it hoom. and the skynne with aƚƚ
The nombles. and the hornes. at the lordis yate
Than boldely blow the price tharat.
Yowre play for to mynne. Or that ye come Inne
¶ Explicit Dam Iulyans
Barnes in her boke of huntyng.
Bestis of the chace of the swete fewte & stinkīg.
Ther be beestys of the chace: of the swete fewte. And tho be the Bucke.
the Doo. the Beere. the Reynḋ the Elke. the Spyccard. the Otre. and the
Martron.
¶ Ther be beestis of the chace of the stynkyng fewte And thay be the
Roobucke. and the Roo. the Fulmard. the Fyches. the Baude. the Graye.
the Fox. the Squyreƚƚ. the whitrat. the Sot. and the Pulcatte.
¶ The namẏs of diuerse maner houndis
Theis be the namys of houndes. First ther is a Grehownd a Bastard. A
Mengreƚƚ. a Mastyfe. a Lemor. a Spanyeƚƚ. Rachys. Kenettys. Teroures.
Bocheris houndes. Myddyng dogges. Tryndeltayles. and Prikherid curris.
and smale ladies popis thai beere a way the flees and dyueris smale
fawtis.
¶ The propreteis of a goode Grehound.
A Grehounde shulde be heded like a Snake. and necked like a Drake. Foted
like a Kat. Tayled like a Rat. Syded lyke a Teme. Chyned like a Beme
¶ The first yere he most lerne to fede. The secund yere to felde hym
lede. ¶ The .iij. yere he is felow lyke. The .iiij yere ther is noon
sike. ¶ The .v. yere he is good Inough The .vi. yere he shaƚƚ holde the
plough ¶ The vij yere he wiƚƚ avayle: grete bikkys for to assayle. ¶ The
.viij. yere likladiƚƚ. The .ix. yere cartsadyƚƚ. ¶ And when he is commyn
to that yere: haue hym to the tanner. ¶ For the beest hownde that euer
bikke hade. at .ix. yere he is fuƚƚ badde
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