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A Treatise of the laws of the forest : wherein is declared not onely those laws as they are now in force, but also in the original and beginning of forests
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12, Gs the signification of these two Words,

') Hawking and Hunting,

T Ws wv?d Hunter ant) Hunting, is said to come ofthe French wo?d Haunter, which doth llgmkie Fre- <quentare 5 as Budaeus uteth to sap, Frequentare ferag,to Hunt after tvild beasts: §lnd Terence was wont tosap, Sectari belluas, apros, & cervos: Ovid users) tfciSPhMfe, Feraspersequi, which is eatnestip 0? gmdilp topursue and follow after wild beasts, as Hunters use todo. And therefore Hunters are oftentimes called bxBudæus, Sectatores serarum, that is to Hip, Hunters 0?greeijp pursuers of wild beasts: so? 8e^atoreZ are p?o-perlp inch as do pursue and follow after anx thing,with subtile traps and ettgtns to betrap it, that thex6-nkKs csp. map p?ep upon it in the end. Me read in Genesis thatNemroth boas tlje first that sot unto btmself a King-dom,and pet he is uonbete called a Ring,but a stout anda might? Hunter befo?e the Lo?d;w? as a holp Father,'Writing upon the fame place,sairh,Ouia,ut venator ferasJohannes le- libertate fruentes, ipse hbmines sibi compescuit obedire,pmus. that is to sap,iFo?Iffte as aHunter.fuhdUeth wild beasts

libing at their own libertp, and bp continnall pursu-ing os them, doth make them to pield to obep him: edenso did Nemroth, dp continual pursuing os men that si-ded after their own Wills and pleawres, make them toxield obedience unto him,and so to lidein obedience andaw os the Law. And again in the VMMh Ghaptersf^rr.c-x.16.^. thezs?ophet ^ere-rniah, where the Mopyet th?ssatneththe punilhment os God upcm the wicked that do libeidlelp and wantonlp at their own Wills and pleasures,faith, A Will fend out manp Hlinters to Hunt them our

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