Countrey contentments, in two bookes: the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses ... with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them ... The second intituled The English housewife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate women: as her phisicke, cookery ... distillation, perfumes, ... brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold / [Gervase Markham].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1615
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Credit: Countrey contentments, in two bookes: the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses ... with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them ... The second intituled The English housewife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate women: as her phisicke, cookery ... distillation, perfumes, ... brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold / [Gervase Markham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bookcu __ rccoucr that Hare: bat if the forme looke old and rough within ,-and-the padde it fclfebeenocfmoothnoranie prickes to be difcemed, therein then is it old, and if the Hounds call vpon it yon (hall rate them for the fent is old and all the labour will be loft you fpendvpon it. The next thing youoblerucmuft be the Ihiftsand The hares fleighesofthe bare, when (heis wearily hunted, as her aK J dubblings and windings and at cuerie dc fault giucthe 1 Hounds leafurc enough and cotnpafle enough intheca- ftine about of your ringsfor thevn winding of the lame; then you (hall obferue herleapes and skippes before (he fquat,and beate all thofe places very union 11 y which arc likely to giuc her anie harbour,and though the loflc feem neucr lb. dangerous, yet nottobeedilcouragcd but.ro j continue your learch , becaufe when fttee commcth to thofe hard fhifes (hec is at the laft call and cannot Hand long before the Hounds. Manic other circumftanccs there are, but they arefo generall knownc toalmofteuc- rie man that anie waieatffefteth this picalure, that it is needlefte to make further relation thereof} andthere- fore I holdethis fufficicnt forthe hunting of the hare. Now for the huntingof the fixe or Badger, they are ^ chafes of a great deale ieffe vfe or cunning thenameof t fthe the former,becaufe they are of much hotter fent, as be- Fox or Badfl ingintided ftinkingfents and not fweet lents, and indeed gen very fewe dogges bat will hunt them with all egerneffe 5 therefore I will not ftand much vpon them, bur aduife you torelpeft well their haunts andcouerts,which com- monlieis in woods and bulhieplaces, and to take know¬ ledge of their earths, and Kennels , and as neere as yon can when you^oe about to hunt them,to ftoppe vp their Kennels,and keep them out that fling foorth, they may be the fooner brought to their dcftrudtion;the chale P is f! fii'Ji' rik t