The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

Syr yf you be on huntynge founde,

I shall you gyve a good greyhounde

That is dunne as a doo:

For as I am trewe gentylwoman,

There was never deer that he at ran,

That myght yscape him fro.

It is evident, however, that the ladies had hunting parties by themselves.

4. Ladies Hunting—XIV. Century.