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Chapter 7 OF THE WOLF AND OF HIS NATURE

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February with the females and then be jolly and do in the manner as hounds do, and be in their great heat of love ten or twelve days, and when the bitch is in greatest heat

d there he lines her. And therefore men say beyond the seas in some countries when any woman doth amiss, that she is like to the wolf bitch for she taketh to her the worst and the foulest and the most wretched and it is truth that the bitch of the wolf taketh to her the foulest and most wretched, for he hath most laboured and fasted85 for her and is most poor, most lean and most wretched. And this is the cause why men say that the wolf saw never his fathe

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not fast with the bitch or peradventure he hath left her then he fleeth away from t

owship together they generally stay evermore together, and though they sometimes go to seek their feeding the one far from the other they will be together at night if they can or at the farthest at the end of three days. And such wolves in fellowship together get meat for their whelps the father as well as the mother, save only that the wolf eateth first his fill and then bears the remnant to his whelps. The bitch does not do so for she beareth all her meat to her whelps and eateth with them. And if the wolf is with the whelps when the mother cometh and she bringeth anything and the wolf has not enough he taketh the feeding from her and her whelps, and eateth his fill first, and then he leaveth them the remnant, if there be any, and if there be not any left they die of hunger, if they will, for he recketh but little so that his belly be full. And when the m

that the wolf should wind nothing of her feeding when

tious that when they assail a man they have a holding upon him before the man can see them, and yet if men see them they will come upon them so gynnously (cunningly) that with great difficulty a man will escape being taken and slain, for they can wonder well keep from any harness (arms) that a man beareth. There are two principal causes why they attack men; one is when they are old and lose their teeth and their strength, and cannot carry their prey as they were wont to do, then they mostly go for children, which are not difficult to take for they need not carry them about but only eat them. And the child's flesh is more tender than is the skin or flesh of a beast. The other reason is that when they have been acharned (blooded) in a country of war, where battles have been, they eat dead men. Or if men have been hanged or have been hanged so low that they may reach thereto, or when they fall from the gallows. And man's flesh is so savoury and so pleasant that when they have taken to man's flesh they will never eat the flesh of other beasts, though they should die of hunger. For many men have seen them leave the sheep they have taken and eat the shepherd. It is a wonderfully wily and gynnous (cunning) beast, and more false than any other beast to take all advantage, for he will never fly but a little save when he has need, for he will always abide in his strength (stronghold), and he hath good breath, for every day it is needful to him, for every man that seeth him chaseth him away and crieth after him. When he is hunted he will fly all day unless he is overset by greyhounds. He will gladly go to some village or in a brook, he will be little at bay except when he can go no further. Sometimes wolves go mad and when they bite a man he will scarcely get well, for their biting is wonderfully venomous on account of the toads they have eaten as I have said before, and also on account of their madness. And when they are full or sick they feed on grasses as a hound does in order to purge themselves. They stay long without meat for a wolf can well remain without meat six days or more. And when the wolf's bitch has her whelps commonly she will do no harm near where she has them, for fear she hath to lose them. And if a wolf come to a fold of sheep if he may abide any while he will slay them all before he begins to eat any of them. Men take them beyond the sea with hounds and greyhounds with nets and with cords, but

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69: haussepiez, a snare by which they

oulder.91 And also the liver of the wolf dried is good for a man's liver, but thereof I make no affirmation, for I would put in my book nothing but very

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Contents

Chapter 1 THE PROLOGUE Chapter 2 OF THE HARE AND OF HER NATURE Chapter 3 OF THE HART AND HIS NATURE Chapter 4 OF THE BUCK AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 5 OF THE ROE AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 6 OF THE WILD BOAR AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 7 OF THE WOLF AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 8 OF THE FOX AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 9 OF THE GREY (BADGER) AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 10 OF THE (WILD) CAT AND ITS NATURE Chapter 11 THE OTTER AND HIS NATURE
Chapter 12 OF THE MANNER AND HABITS AND CONDITIONS OF HOUNDS
Chapter 13 OF SICKNESSES OF HOUNDS AND OF THEIR CORRUPTIONS
Chapter 14 OF RUNNING HOUNDS AND OF THEIR NATURE
Chapter 15 OF GREYHOUNDS AND OF THEIR NATURE
Chapter 16 OF ALAUNTES AND OF THEIR NATURE
Chapter 17 OF SPANIELS AND OF THEIR NATURE
Chapter 18 OF THE MASTIFF AND OF HIS NATURE
Chapter 19 WHAT MANNER AND CONDITION A GOOD HUNTER SHOULD HAVE.
Chapter 20 HOW THE KENNEL FOR THE HOUNDS AND THE COUPLES FOR THE RACHES AND THE ROPES FOR THE LYMER SHOULD BE MADE
Chapter 21 HOW THE HOUNDS SHOULD BE LED OUT TO SCOMBRE
Chapter 22 HOW A HUNTER'S HORN SHOULD BE DRIVEN
Chapter 23 HOW A MAN SHOULD LEAD HIS GROOM IN QUEST FOR TO KNOW A HART BY HIS TRACE
Chapter 24 HOW A MAN SHOULD KNOW A GREAT HART BY THE FUMES177
Chapter 25 HOW A MAN SHOULD KNOW A GREAT HART BY THE PLACE WHERE HE HATH FRAYED HIS HEAD
Chapter 26 HOW THE ORDINANCE SHOULD BE MADE FOR THE HART HUNTING BY STRENGTH AND HOW THE HART SHOULD BE HARBOURED
Chapter 27 HOW A HUNTER SHOULD GO IN QUEST BY THE SIGHT
Chapter 28 HOW AN HUNTER SHOULD GO IN QUEST BETWEEN THE PLAINS AND THE WOOD
Chapter 29 HOW A HUNTER SHOULD GO IN QUEST IN THE COPPICE AND THE YOUNG WOOD
Chapter 30 HOW AN HUNTER SHOULD GO IN QUEST IN GREAT COVERTS AND STRENGTHS
Chapter 31 HOW A HUNTER SHOULD QUEST IN CLEAR SPIRES AND HIGH WOOD198
Chapter 32 HOW A GOOD HUNTER SHALL GO IN QUEST TO HEAR THE HARTS BELLOW
Chapter 33 HOW THE ASSEMBLY THAT MEN CALL GATHERING SHOULD BE MADE BOTH WINTER AND SUMMER AFTER THE GUISE OF BEYOND THE SEA
Chapter 34 HOW THE HART SHOULD BE MOVED WITH THE LYMER AND RUN TO AND SLAIN WITH STRENGTH
Chapter 35 HOW AN HUNTER SHOULD SEEK AND FIND THE HARE WITH RUNNING HOUNDS AND SLAY HER WITH STRENGTH
Chapter 36 OF THE ORDINANCE AND THE MANNER OF HUNTING WHEN THE KING WILL HUNT IN FORESTS OR IN PARKS FOR THE HART WITH BOWS AND GREYHOUNDS AND STABLE
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