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The Boke of Saint Albans

The
Boke of Saint Albans

BY

DAME JULIANA BERNERS

CONTAINING

TREATISES ON HAWKING, HUNTING, AND COTE ARMOUR:

PRINTED AT SAINT ALBANS BY THE SCHOOLMASTER-PRINTER IN 1486

REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE

With an Introduction by

WILLIAM BLADES

AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE AND TYPOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CAXTON”

LONDON

ELLIOT STOCK, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.

“Manhood I am, therefore I me delyght

To hunt and hawke, to nourish up and fede

The greyhounde to the course, the hawke to th’ flight,

And to bestryde a good and lusty stede.”

From Sir Thomas More’s Poems.