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A85541	GratI Falisci Cynegeticon. Or, A poem of hunting by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and illustrated by Christopher Wase Gent.; Cynegeticon. English and Latin	Grattius, Faliscus.; Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1581; Thomason E1531_3; ESTC R1966	59,252	180

of game I hope he may be in good humor for it Come Lads and wind your Horne and Summon up Your well-tun'd hounds unto yon mountains top There lurks the pride o' th' woods the Lyon fell At whose decease our troops shall yelpe a Knell In yonder vale a jumping Stagge I spy Whose feet will shame the winds celerity Whose branched Hornes being crown'd with sturdy threats Contemne our Dogs our Iavelins our nets In this thick sedge there lies a tusked Boare Who challenges free quarter and all'ore The fens and woods he domineeres to see N●ne is so strong none is so stout as he Let 's on the hills the vales the fenns to beat Nor Claw nor Horne nor Tuske shall mak's retreat We 're arm'd with force we 're cataphract with Art The one our Troops the other Books impart Books did I say one book hath taught us all 'T is Gratius does all Authors prayse forestall Whose name whose age whose stile whose argument Is Pleasant Rev'rend Candid Innocent All current are but what 's obscure and blind None but this Mighty Nimrod-wit can find Who having stript his Cynegetick wight Makes him appeare an English Adamite No Sectary but Orthodox and true Whether you 'd range in th Parke or hunt purlue Such high-borne fancy quick and nobly bred Would make Diana leave her sport to read As doe the Muses in Diana's Chase Delight to rove and her wild games embrace William Price Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge CHAP. VII Of the Modern Authours who have written upon this subject ALthough I were very much experienced in any art and were apt to conceive a good opinion of my owne ability therein yet being to publish a discourse concerning it I were oblig'd to inform my selfe of what others have formerly propos'd in the same matter as far as may conveniently be attain'd there are some who esteem it glory to be thought to have declin'd any other helps but their owne witt which I should charge upon my selfe as negligence It might have been thought sufficient that this excellent Author hath come out lately in Holland with the learned notes of Janus Ulitius and although I have not since that time found the fame of this Poet to have been much celebrated amongst us with whom hunting is in very high esteem yet that judicious commentator hath deserved very highly of him and withall infallibly rais'd himself a monument of late and lasting honour This learned Ulitius hath compar'd our Author with the Latine and Greek writers which have handled this subject ex professo which or toucht upon it so that if I should make that my businesse it would seem that I did in alienam messem falcem mittere I shall endeavour to reduce this Poem to the instructions that I finde in the modern both French and English The chiefe amongst the French is La Venerie per Iaques de Foüilloux This is translated into English by Mr Turbervill it was indeed done into very proper English with great care and judgement some forty yeares since But now the booke is hardly to bee mett with That discourse too of Hunting that is in La Maison Rustique is but an abridgement of this former There is another in French who may merit the name of an Author with Foüilloux his Contemporary under Charles the 9. and that is Iean de Clamorgan who hath written a particular treatise of La chasse du loup In our language there have been divers old writers that have delivered rather some proper termes for hunting then that have compiled the Art I read cited Sir Tristram and the book of St. Albans I have seen Dame Iulians Bernes doctrine in her book of hunting But these Authors are not to be procured publickly as they are indeed of lesse use I set a farre higher esteem upon a late writer many of whose works are frequently to be had Mr. Gervas Markham may undoubtedly be compared with any of the antients who have written de Re Rustica and if his style be not so pleasant as that of Pliny yet certainly his experiments are more certain and profitable he hath reported the fruits of his own experience as in the whole Cycle of Husbandry accurately so in Cynegetiques excellently The former French Author and this English Master of Oeconomicall Philosophy I look upon as fountains With these I have been conversant that so I might draw from experienced men if they delivered any thing which might more largely explicate that upon which Gratias may happen to touch With this preparation I shall in the threefollowing Chapters examine the difficult words and obscure passages as they lie in order in this Poem In the Citations I have abbridged Clamorgan by Cl. Foüiloux by F. Markham by M. CHAP. VIII Of Nets the line to fright Dear snares and spears with the Bow BIS vicenos passus Columella lib. 5. de R. R. Passus pedes ha●et quinque So that 40 Paces make 200 feet This must be understood of the Roman standard which comes short of the English The most exact and minute deduction of the Roman foot is by Mr. Iohn Greaves who preferres the foot on the monument of Cossutius before others and finds it to be to the English as 967 to 1000. So that two hundred foot Roman comes precisely short of 200 foot English by 6 English feet half a foot and one tenth of a foot Nodis Meshes Optima Cyniphiae The soyle fittest to sow Hemp upon must be a rich mingled earth of clay and sand or clay and gravell well tempered and so on as is worthy to be observed in M. The English houswives skill B. 2. From this place I reconcile Gratius who saies Optima C. paludes lina dabunt with Pliny saying Seritur sabulosis maximè Ulitius being somewhat gravell'd at it is so hardy as to propound that the place be altered into Paludosis but he should rather diffide his owne experience and suspend such rash judgments till farther inquiry Simple sand is too barren hot and light bringing forth withered increase simple clay again is too tough rich and heavy bringing forth all bun and no rind so that the Sabulum of Pliny is a mingled gravell or the red hazel ground Stupea Messis We should know that to speak properly they say Vellere linum To pull Hemp or Flax which is the manner of gathering it for it is not cut as Corn is either with Sith or Sickle but it is pull'd up by the roots Sonipes turba Those of the East us'd to wear bells about their legs in ornament thus the Jews Isa 3. 16. 18. And the leaping about with bells ty'd on the legs after an Hoboy and a Horse is not originally an European frolique though brought amongst us by Spain but the name imports to dance Alla Moresca Vix velatur Like our Cambricks Lawns and Tiffanies which serve rather to transmitt nakednesse then to hide or cover it as by drawing a transparent chassée of glasse or cristall