It is but foly to entremete, To seke in houndes nest fat mete.
The houndes had overshote hem alle, And were on a defaute y-falle; Therwith the hunte wonder faste 385 Blew a forloyn at the laste.
And take Kennetes and Ratches with you and seeke oute all the forest with houndes and hornes as Kynge Edwarde with the long shanks dide.
Bot he which hateth alle untrowthe, 1800 The hihe god, it schal redresse; For so my dowhter prophetesse Forth with hir litel houndes deth Betokneth.
Write in Civile this I finde: Thogh it be noght the houndes kinde To ete chaf, yit wol he werne An Oxe which comth to the berne, Therof to taken eny fode.
And as these holi bokes sein, 1010 The houndes comen fro the halle, Wher that this sike man was falle, And as he lay ther forto die, The woundes of his maladie Thei licken forto don him ese.
Of smalle houndeshad she, that she fed With roasted flesh, and milk, and *wastel bread.
We strive, as did the houndes for the bone; They fought all day, and yet their part was none.
Til the kynges counseil Be the commune profit, Til bisshopes bayardes Ben beggeris chaumbres, 2330 Hire haukes and hire houndes Help to povere religious.
Ne children sholde I none up-on hir geten; Yet were me lever houndes had me eten, Than that myn heritage sholde falle In straunge hand, and this I tell yow alle.
Of smale houndes had she, that she fedde With rosted flesh, or milk and wastel-breed.
This goddesse on an hert ful hye seet, 2075 With smale houndes al aboute hir feet; And undernethe hir feet she hadde a mone, Wexing it was, and sholde wanie sone.
But it were for an old appalled wight, As been thise wedded men, that lye and dare As in a forme sit a wery hare, Were al for-straught with houndes grete and smale.
Thilke manere of folk been the flyes that folwen the hony, or elles the houndes that folwen the careyne.
That for to honten is so desirous, And namely at the grete hert in May, 1675 That in his bed ther daweth him no day, That he nis clad, and redy for to ryde With hunte and horn, and houndes him bisyde.
Poore masse-book and leud chapelayn, and broken surplice with 65 many an hole; goodhoundes and many, to hunte after hart and hare, to fede in their feestes.
With hauke[s] and with houndes eke, 1005 With broches or ouches on his hode, Some say no masse in all a weke, Of deyntees is hir moste fode.
Of smale houndeshadde sche, that sche fedde small hounds With rostud fleissh, and mylk, and wastel breed.
So, Of smale houndes had she, that she fedde With rosted flesh, or milk and wastel-breed.
Chaucer says, Ne what hawkes sytten on perchen above, Ne what houndes lyggen on the flour adoun.
And there ben rattes in that ile, als gret as houndes here: and men taken hem with grete mastyfes: for cattes may not take hem.
And alle the men and wommen of that yle han houndes hedes: and thei ben clept Cynocephali: and thei ben fulle resonable and of gode undirstondynge, saf that thei worschipen an ox for here god.
And in that contree ben so gret houndes and so stronge, that thei assaylen lyouns, and sleu hem.
And than thei make to come in huntyng, for the hert and for the boor, with houndes rennynge with open mouthe.
For the lond and the contree is not worthi houndes to dwelle inne.
On the left hand, and west of the Red cross, lieth a street of old time called Houndes ditch, and of later time named Barbican, of such cause as I have before noted.
Item the same daye paied to humfrey of the pryvay houndes for the mete by the space of one monethe ix [~s].
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