HOW THE HOUNDS SHOULD BE LED OUT TO SCOMBRE
Also I will teach[172] the child to lead out the hounds to scombre
twice in the day in the morning and in the evening, so that the sun be
up, especially in winter. Then should he let them run and play long in
a fair meadow in the sun, and then comb every hound after the other,
and wipe them with a great wisp of straw, and thus he shall do every
morning. And then shall he lead them into some fair place there where
tender grass grows as corn and other things, that therewith they may
feed them (selves) as it is medicine for them, for sometimes hounds
are sick and with the grass that they eat they void and heal
themselves.
[172] The first four words are omitted in our MS., but they are in the
Shirley MS. and in others, and in G. de F.