_Now I pray unto every creature that hath heard or read this little treatise of whatever estate or condition he be that there where there is too little of good language that of their benignity and grace they will add more, and there where there is too much superfluity that they will also abridge it as may seem best by their good and wise discretion. Not presuming that I had over much knowledge and ability to put into writing this royal disportful and noble game of hunting so effectually that it might not be submitted to the correction of all gentle hunters. And in my simple manner as best I could and as might be learned of old and many diverse gentle hunters, I did my business in this rude manner to put the craft and the terms and the exercise of this said game more in remembrance and openly to the knowledge of all lords, ladies, gentlemen and women, according to the customs and manners used in the high noble court of this Realm of England._ FINIS APPENDIX ACQUILLEZ, Fr., to take, to hold at bay, to gather. "Et s'il voit que les chiens heussent acueili le change" (G. de F., p. 156)--"if he sees that the hounds have taken the change." It also denotes: "owning to the scent" (Senechal, p. 8; Roy Modus, xxix. v). Twici says: "Les chevereaus ne sunt mie enchacez ne aquyllees," which Dryden translates, "the roebuck is not chased nor hunted up," from _enquiller_ or _aquiller_, O. Fr. a form of _accuellir_, to push, put in motion, excite. "The word in English which is nearest to it is 'to imprime,' which was afterwards used for the unharbouring of the hart" (Twici, p. 26). In the old English translation of Twici (Vesp. B. XII.) _aquylees_ is construed "gadered," which is certainly one sense, but not the one here required (Twici, p. 53). The "Master of Game" translates _ils accueillent_ in G. de. F., p. 112, by "they run to them" (p. 111. _See also_ Godefroy). AFFETED, Mid. Eng., _affaiten_; O. Fr. _affaitier_, to trim, to fashion. A well-affaited or affeted head, a well-fashioned or good-shaped head. In speaking of stags' antlers, means regularly tined and well grown. _Affeted_ also meant trained or tamed, reclaimed, made gentle, thoroughly manned. _Affaiter_ is still in use in M. Fr., as a term of falconry. We find this word employed in this sense in the Vision of Piers Plowman (1362): "And go affayte the Fawcons, wilde fowles to kill." And in O. Fr. sporting literature one constantly reads of "Chiens bien, affaities" (well-broken dogs); "oiseaux bien affaities" (well-trained hawks). Roy Modus, lxxix.; Bormans, p. 52; _La Chace dou Cerf_, Jub. 157; T.M. vol. ii. p. 933. ALAUNTES, _Allaunts_, _Canis Alanus_; Fr. _alans_. Also spelt _alande_, _alaunt_, _allaundes_, _Aloundys_ (MS. Brit. Mus., Egerton, 1995). _See also_ Twici, p. 56.