Alle þo þat wyn lerne of hunty[n]g, I schal tech hom as I haue lerned byfor þis tyme. Now wyn we bygynne at þo hare. & whi helder at þo hare þen at anoþer best? I schalle telle ʒow whi: for ho is þo meruailoust best þat is on þi erþe…
Explicit:
… & þat is cald rewarde. And whi is his not calde quirre? I schalle telle þe whi: for hit is not eten vpon þo skyn as of a hert. Hou mony hastletes falles a mon to haue of a boor? [La fin manque.]
Manuscrits
Ashton-under-Lyne, collection particulière, f. Ωr-v (A)
The Middle English Text of "The Art of Hunting" by William Twiti, edited from an uncatalogued manuscript in a private collection, Ashton-under-Lyne by David Scott-Macnab, with a parallel text of The Anglo-Norman "L'Art de Venerie" by William Twiti, edited from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 424/448, Heidelberg, Winter (Middle English Texts, 40), 2009, lxxxvii + 125 p.